The GRENKE AG Supervisory Board

Personal information

Born in Neuss on 17 May 1951

Milestones

• Professor Lipp studied Economics and Modern History at the Universities of Cambridge and Saarbrücken, and was awarded his doctorate in 1979.  
• In 1979 he began his career as Secretary General of the German Council of Economic Experts (known as ‘The Five Sages’).
• In 1984 he was appointed as Professor of International Finance at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
• In 1987 he joined Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt, where he worked as Chief Economist and subsequently General Manager for the international financing business.
• He served on the Board of Directors at Dresdner Bank from 1995 to 2000. 
• Since 2000, Professor Lipp has been Managing Partner at ODEWALD & COMPAGNIEGesellschaft für Beteiligungen mbH in Berlin.

Memberships

In May 2003, Prof. Lipp was elected to the Supervisory Board of GRENKE AG and confirmed in May 2008, in May 2013 and in May 2018, each for a further five years. 

He has been the Chairman of the Supervisory Board since May 2005.

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Moritz Lipp is a member of other statutory domestic supervisory boards:

• GRENKE BANK AG, Baden-Baden, (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)

Personal information

Born on November 13, 1957, in Santiago de Chile

Milestones

• Jens Rönnberg studied business administration with an emphasis on banking, auditing, accounting and controlling at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated with a master’s degree in business administration.
• He started his career in 1986 at PwC in Frankfurt in the area of credit institution auditing and passed the tax consultant examination in 1990 and the auditor's examination in 1992. In 1993, he was appointed as a partner at PwC and was responsible for auditing a major bank and its domestic and foreign subsidiaries until 1998.
• At the end of 1998, he joined PwC UK in London as a partner, where he was responsible for foreign bank branches and subsidiaries until the end of 2001.
• He established the Foreign Bank division for PwC in Frankfurt at the end of 2001, taking over audit responsibility for a large number of foreign bank branches and subsidiaries.
• In the period from 2006 to 2010, Jens Rönnberg established the Transaction Services Financial Services division and was involved in numerous transactions in the areas of banking and non-performing loans. From 2008 to 2012, he was also the auditor responsible for the European Central Bank.
• From 2010 to mid-2018, he assumed responsibility for establishing PwC’s Financial Services division in Vienna, Austria. Since 2014, as the responsible partner, he has been advising a major German banking group in consulting projects.
• From 2001 to 2018, he was also a member of the Audit Committee for Auditors at the Chamber of Auditors.
• Since June 2018, he has been working as an auditor/tax consultant in his own practice at his place of residence.

Mandates

Based on the respective request under Section 104 (2) of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG), the District Court/Court of Registration Mannheim has appointed Mr Jens Rönnberg, Mainz, as a member of the GRENKE Supervisory Board until the end of the Annual General Meeting that decides on the discharge for the 2019 fiscal year.

Jens Rönnberg is not a member of any other statutory supervisory board or comparable supervisory body at any domestic or foreign commercial enterprises as defined by Section 125 (1) sentence 5 AktG.

Personal data

Born on 09.05.1970 in Görlitz

Milestones

• Norbert Freisleben studied economics at the University of Hohenheim starting 1991. After a semester abroad in 1993 at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, where he took International Management, International Finance, Marketing and Scandinavian Studies, he completed his studies in 1996 by obtaining a degree in Economics with distinction.
• From 1997 to 2021 he worked for the auditing firm KPMG and passed the Certified Public Accountant exam in 1998. His work included the preparation and auditing of annual financial statements in accordance with German and international law, IFRS and US-GAAP conversions, assistance with IPOs and initial and subsequent consolidations. He was actively involved as a lecturer in KPMG's internal training, designed programmes on international accounting and held client seminars on international accounting in Germany and abroad.
• He is also active in professional development and academic teaching. Since 1998 he has been active at the Academy for International Accounting in the fields of IFRS, US-GAAP and Group accounting in German and English-speaking countries. He has held a lectureship in financial management and balance sheet analysis at the Faculty of Economics and Law at Pforzheim University since 2004 and has contributed to Beck Verlag's Munich Commentary on Accounting Law and Stock Corporation Law since 2006.
• He is managing director of Karl Häge Verwaltungs GmbH in Langenau (since 2006) and NUFA GmbH (since 2018) in Böblingen.

Supervisory board positions

In July 2021 Norbert Freisleben was appointed as a Member to the Supervisory Board of GRENKE AG.

Norbert Freisleben holds additional memberships in the following statutory domestic supervisory boards  

GANÉ AG, Aschaffenburg
GANÉ Investment AG, Frankfurt am Main

Awards

Norbert Freisleben received the Bavarian Rescue Medal in June 2016.

Personal data

Born on 8 December in 1976 in Hilden
 

Milestones

• After passing the first state law examination at the University of Cologne in 2002, he passed the second state law examination and was admitted to the bar in 2005.
• He began his professional career in 2005 as a lawyer at Schlütter Bornheim Seitz, a law firm in Cologne (now Seitz Rechtsanwälte, Steuerberater PartG mbB).
• In November 2011, he was appointed partner in this law firm. He still holds this position today. Nils Kröber heads up the tax law, criminal tax law and tax consultancy divisions.
• Since September 2014, he has also been a managing partner of DeaDia Ventures GmbH in Cologne.
• In March 2015, he co-founded SKS Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH in Cologne, where he still holds the position of managing partner. SKS Steuerberatungsgesellschaft GmbH operates the Seitz Unternehmeroffice.
• Since March 2021, he has also been a partner in HKS GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft in Cologne.
   

Memberships in statutory supervisory boards

none

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies

none

Personal data

Born on 05.12.1955 in Frankfurt am Main
 

Milestones

• After passing the first state law examination in 1981, Konstantin Mettenheimer studied at the renowned Wharton School, USA, until 1983, graduating with a Master of Business Administration.
• After receiving his doctorate in 1986, he passed the second state law examination and was admitted to practice as a lawyer in 1987.
• He began his career in 1986 as a lawyer at the law firm Westrick and Eckholdt (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer), where he worked for a total of 27 years.
• From 1990 on he was a partner at that law firm (now: Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber). In 1991, he simultaneously passed his exams as a tax consultant.
• After the merger with the global business law firm Freshfields in 2020, he was appointed Regional Manager Partner for Germany, Austria and Central Eastern Europe. In this position he was responsible for the management of 1,500 employees. From 2004, he was global Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors, responsible for 5,000 employees in 18 countries.
• From 2013 to 2015, he served as Branch Manager Germany for Edmond de Rothschild in Germany and Partner of Edmond de Rothschild Private Merchant Banking LLP. 
• In 2014 he obtained the authorisation to manage an investment services provider/securities services provider across the EU by the French financial regulator AMF in Paris.
• Since 2015 he has been active as independent lawyer and tax advisor as well as chairman and shareholder of the corporate finance advisory company PMB Capital Ltd in London. His work focuses on corporate transaction advice.
   

Memberships in statutory supervisory boards

Dr Konstantin Mettenheimer is not a member of any other statutory supervisory board within the meaning of Section 125(1), Sentence 5, AktG (German Stock Corporation Act).

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies

HQ Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Homburg
TTTech Computertechnik AG, Vienna

Personal information

Born in Ruma, Serbia on 7 October 1969

Milestones

• Dr Ljiljana Mitic studied business administration in Dortmund and Plymouth (UK) where she completed a degree in Business Administration. In 1999 she earned her Doctorate at the University of Plymouth. 
• She began her career in 1992 at EDS Electronic Data Systems GmbH. 
• In 1999, Dr Mitic moved to WestLB Systems GmbH in Düsseldorf, where she was responsible for the IT business as Co-General Manager.
• From 2005 to 2010, she assumed overall responsibility for customers in the banking and insurance sector as Sales Director Financial Services Industry Germany at Hewlett Packard GmbH.
• From 2010 to 2011, she headed up the worldwide banking and insurance business as Senior Vice President at Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH in Munich.
• From 2011 to 2015, she served as Executive Vice President at Atos SE, managing global banking and insurance as Global Head of Financial Services Markets. She was a member of the Executive Committee at Atos.
• Since 2016, Dr Mitic has been working as a self-employed management consultant specialising in IT, financial services and start-ups.
• In addition to her self-employment, she has been a Partner at Impact51 AG, based in Küsnacht, Switzerland, since mid-2017, as well as Managing Director at Venture Value Partners GmbH, based in Munich, Germany.

Mandates

Dr Ljiljana Mitic was elected to the GRENKE AG Supervisory Board in May 2015 and confirmed in May 2019 for further five years.
 

Dr Ljiljana Mitic is a member of other statutory domestic supervisory boards:

• Computacenter PLC