Since 2017: Chairman Investment Banking Germany at Lazard Ltd.
Since 2017: Managing partner at Rüdiger Grube International Business Leadership GmbH, Hamburg
2009 – 2017: Deutsche Bahn AG, Chairman of the Executive Board
2001 – 2009: DaimlerChrysler AG, member of the Executive Board, responsible for corporate development, M&A, IT, shareholdings and (since 2004) in charge of activities in north-east Asia
2005 – 2009: EADS (today Airbus Group SE), President of the Board of Directors
1999 – 2000: Häussler AG, managing partner, Co-Chairman of the Executive Board
1996 – 2001: DaimlerChrysler AG (until 1996 Daimler-Benz AG), Senior Vice President and head of corporate strategy
1992 – 1996: Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG (until 1995 Deutsche Aerospace AG), Director of Corporate Planning and Technology (1995-1996), head of staff aviation (1994-1995), in charge of the Munich-Ottobrunn site (1992-1994)
1990 – 1992: Deutsche Airbus GmbH, head of CEO’s office
1989 – 1990: Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, head of marketing, sales and external relations for the energy and industrial technology division
Education
Degree in professional and business education from the University Hamburg; degree in vehicle engineering and aeronautics from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Ph.D. (Dr. Phil.) (1986)
Apprenticeship as aircraft metalworker at Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB/MBB)
Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards of German companies
Bombardier Transportation GmbH, Berlin (Chairman)
Deufol SE, Hofheim am Taunus (non-executive member of the Board of Directors)
Vantage Towers AG, Düsseldorf (Chairman)1
Vossloh AG, Werdohl (Chairman)1
Memberships in comparable domestic or foreign controlling bodies of business enterprises
Bombardier Transportation Bahntechnologie (Holding) Germany GmbH, Berlin (Chairman)
Other material activities in addition to the Supervisory Board mandate
Deutsche Bank AG, member of the Hamburg regional Advisory Board
Deutsche Nationalstiftung, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Off Road Kids Stiftung, patron and Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Paul Schockemöhle Logistics Gruppe, Chairman of the Advisory Board