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 in Scheidegg/Allgäu on 12 May 1963

Milestones

• Claudia Krcmar studied business administration at the Kempten University of Applied Sciences and graduated with an honours degree in Business Administration.
• She started her career in 1987 as Assistant to the Management Board for Controlling and Accounting at Sixt AG in Munich. She then worked as a Contract Coordinator for Leasing at Sixt Leasing GmbH.
• From 1991 to 1993, she worked as Junior Manager Franchise Controlling and Accounting Northern Europe/Eastern Europe at Cadbury Beverages Europe in Munich.
• After paternal leave and time off for child-rearing, she joined GRENKE AG in Baden-Baden in 2000 as a member of the Controlling Score/Cost Accounting department. In 2009, she was promoted to team leader in Controlling Cost HR. From April 2018 to April 2019, she held the central staff function reporting to the Management Board on HR Controlling, Cost Controlling and Development.
• Since 2018, she has also been a Managing Director of AMPIT GmbH in Baden-Baden. 

Mandates

In May 2019, Claudia Krcmar was elected to the GRENKE AG Supervisory Board for three years. 
She is not a member of any other statutory supervisory boards or comparable German or foreign controlling bodies of commercial enterprises within the meaning of section 125(1) sentence 5 German Stock Corporation Act (AktG).

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

Personal information

Born in Munich on 23 June 1971

Milestones

• Florian Schulte studied business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich with a focus on auditing and capital market research/financing. In 1996 he completed his degree in Business Administration.
• He began his career at McKinsey & Co. in 1997. Until 2000 he worked in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt as a consultant in Corporate Finance & Strategy.
• In 2000 he joined Infoscore Group in Baden-Baden, where he first took over responsibility for the Information Management division and subsequently for overall management of the Group, heading up business information and receivables management, scoring and factoring.
• From 2005 to 2007, following the takeover by Bertelsmann, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors at Arvato Infoscore, managing the merger of the Infoscore Group of companies with Arvato subsidiaries AZ Direct and BFS Finance.
• From 2007 to 2011 he was CEO and Co-Partner of Deltavista Holding AG in Zurich, and since 2011 has been a member of the Board of Directors of Deltavista International AG, Küsnacht.
• Since 2011 he has been an active investor in shareholdings through his company Fines Holding GmbH in Baden-Baden.
• In 2013, he took over as Managing Director at the Family Office of Sigmund Kiener at S.K. Management- und Beteiligungs GmbH in Baden-Baden.

Mandates

Florian Schulte was elected to the GRENKE AG Supervisory Board in May 2010, confirmed in May 2015 for a further four years and in May 2019 for further five years.

Florian Schulte has further memberships in the following statutory supervisory boards and comparable domestic and foreign controlling bodies:

• MS Direct AG, St. Gallen, CH (member of the Board of Directors)
• Upside Beteiligungs AG, Munich, DE (member 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.