Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG
The Supervisory Board monitors and advises the Executive Board. The Supervisory Board consists of twelve members; as stipulated by the German codetermination law governing stock corporations, half of the members are made up of shareholders and half of employees’ representatives.
The Supervisory Board is directly involved in making the decisions of fundamental importance for the company. Together with the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board agrees on the Group’s strategic focus and regularly discusses the status of the ongoing execution of business strategy.
Dr. Lothar Kappich
Chairman
Dipl.-Oekonom (Graduate Economist) | Hamburg, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2007
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Supervisory Board
Manfred Zaffke
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Dipl. Volkswirt (Graduate Political Economist) | Osterode am Harz, Germany
First Authorized Representative of the German Metalworkers’ Union (IG Metall) branch office in the Southern Lower Saxony-Harz region in Northeim, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since March 2014
Annette Becker
Personalfachkauffrau (HR Specialist) | Göttingen, Germany
Chairwoman of the Employees’ Council of Sartorius Corporate Administration GmbH in Göttingen, Chairwoman of the Group Employees’ Council of Sartorius AG in Göttingen, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since September 2002
Uwe Bretthauer
Dipl.-Ingenieur (Graduate Engineer) | Göttingen, Germany
Chairman of the Employees’ Council of Sartorius Lab Instruments GmbH & Co. KG in Göttingen, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since April 1994
Prof. David Raymond Ebsworth
B.Sc in Chemistry and German, Ph.D. in Comparative Industrial Relations | Overath, Germany
Consultant for a number of healthcare companies and financial investors
Member of the Supervisory Board since January 2020
Dr. Daniela Favoccia
Doktor in Rechtswissenschaften (Doctor of Law) | Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Attorney and partner of the Hengeler Mueller partnership of lawyers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2017
Petra Kirchhoff
Dipl.-Volkswirtin (Graduate Political Economist) | Göttingen, Germany
Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations, Sartorius Corporate Administration GmbH in Göttingen, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since October 2010
Karoline Kleinschmidt
Dipl.-Sozialwirtin (Graduate Social Manager) | Hanover, Germany
First Authorized Representative – IG Metall Alfeld-Hameln-Hildesheim
Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2012
Dietmar Müller
Betriebswirt (Business Economist) | Gleichen, Germany
Chairman of the Employees’ Council of Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH in Göttingen
Member of the Supervisory Board since May 2020
Ilke Hildegard Panzer
M.Sc. in Engineering, Computer and Systems Engineering | Fredonia, Wisconsin, USA
Chief Executive Officer of Assurance Laboratories LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2017
Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheper
Dipl.-Chemiker (Graduate Chemist) | Hanover, Germany
University professor and head of the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2012
Prof. Dr. Klaus Rüdiger Trützschler
Dipl.-Wirtschaftsmathematiker (business mathematics) and Dipl.-Mathematiker (mathematics) | Essen, Germany
Member of the Supervisory Board since November 2011
Committees of the Supervisory Board
Executive Task Committee
Dr. Lothar Kappich (Chairman)
Uwe Bretthauer
Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler
Manfred Zaffke
Conciliation Committee
Dr. Lothar Kappich (Chairman)
Uwe Bretthauer
Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler
Manfred Zaffke
Audit Committee
Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler (Chairman)
Uwe Bretthauer
Dr. Lothar Kappich
Manfred Zaffke
Nomination Committee
Dr. Lothar Kappich (Chairman)
Dr. Daniela Favoccia
Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler