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Elke Eckstein

Initial appointment: 2017
Elected until: End of the Annual General Meeting 2022

Personal information:
Year of birth: 1964
Nationality: German

Education/qualifications:
1980-1982 Siemens school for technical assistant professions, Munich

Career history:
1982 - 1996 SIEMENS AG
1982 - 1990 SIEMENS AG, Munich, plant for integrated circuits Diverse engineering positions in the field of bipolar gate arrays
1990 - 1993 IBM/Siemens 64M development program, East Fishkill, U.S.
1993 - 1996 IBM/Siemens, Corbeil-Essonnes, France Development Project Manager 16M
1996 - 2001 INFINEON AG, Dresden and Hsinchu, Taiwan
1996 - 1998 Senior R&D Manager, SIMEC
1998 - 2001 ProMOS, Hsinchu, Taiwan (JV Infineon and Mosel Vitelic) Head of R&D/VP product und technology group
2001 - 2006 ALTIS SEMICONDUCTOR, Corbeil-Essonnes, France (Infineon and IBM joint venture)
2001 - 2003 Chief Operating Officer
2003 - 2006 CEO
2006 - 2008 AMD SAXONY LLC & Co. KG, Dresden (now Globalfoundries) Vice President FAB 30/38
2008 - 2010 OSRAM SEMICONDUCTORS, Regensburg Executive Vice President & COO
2011 GLOBALFOUNDRIES FAB 1, Dresden Vice President and General Manager
2011 - 2013 OSRAM AG, Munic Senior Vice President Corporate Supply Chain Management Quality & Technique, since 2012 also COO Lamps
2013 - 2018 WEIDMÜLLER GRUPPE, Detmold Executive board member/COO
2018 - April 2019 Executive Advisor & Senior Consultant
April 2019 to today CEO Enics AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Relevant knowledge, abilities, and experience:

  • CEO experience (in non-listed companies)
  • HR expertise, including worker participation and social matters
  • Operations
  • Technology expertise
  • Digitization
  • Strategy / growth planning / mergers and acquisitions
  • Markets and international expertise
  • Sales
  • Entrepreneurship / industrial management experience

Membership of legally required supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies in Germany and abroad:

  • Enics Eesti AS, Estonia (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, Chairwoman, not listed)
  • Enics Electronics (Beijing) Ltd., China (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, not listed)
  • Enics Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd., China (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, not listed)
  • Enics Finland Oy, Finland (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, Chairwoman, not listed)
  • Enics Raahe Oy, Finland (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, Chairwoman, not listed)
  • Enics Schweiz AG, Switzerland (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, Chairwoman, not listed)
  • Enics Slovakia s.r.o., Slovakia (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, not listed)
  • Enics Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (group mandate, member of comparable supervisory body, not listed)
  • Saferoad SRH Holding AS, Norway (member of comparable supervisory body, not listed)
  • KK Wind Solutions A/S, Denmark (comparable supervisory body, not listed)
  • BE Semiconductor Industries NV, Netherlands (member of comparable supervisory body, publicly listed)

Other important duties supplementary to the above mandates and Supervisory Board mandate:

None

In the opinion of the Supervisory Board, Elke Eckstein is an independent member in accordance with sections C.1, C.6 and C.7 of the German Corporate Governance Code (in the version of 16 December 2019).