In 2018, the manager became the first non-family chairwoman of the Haniel company’s supervisory board. How things will continue for them in 2023 is open.
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Dusseldorf With Maximilian Schwaiger, another member of the Haniel family will lead the Supervisory Board of the conglomerate from spring 2023. The family company, founded in 1756, announced this on Monday evening. Schwaiger has held a managerial position at the automotive supplier Continental for 14 years.
He has been a member of the so-called small circle of shareholders since 2018, and since 2020 he has been a member of the Supervisory Board previously led by Doreen Nowotne. The private equity expert was the first non-family woman to head the traditional group. Nowotne will remain chief supervisor until the next shareholders’ meeting. It is still unclear whether she will continue to be a member of the committee afterwards.
The designated chairman of the supervisory board, Maximilian Schwaiger, thanked Nowotne for setting the course early on and for the support, “this forms the basis for a successful handover in the coming year”. According to shareholder circles, Schwaiger is seen as open and decisive. Not only does he bring expertise in management tasks and mergers & acquisitions (M&A), but also experience abroad: he was responsible for the finance department of a subsidiary in Great Britain.
In addition, Thomas Vollmoeller was elected to the Supervisory Board at the shareholders’ meeting on April 30, 2022. He was CEO of New Work SE until 2020 and is a member of several supervisory boards, at eDreams ODIGEO SA he also chairs the board. He succeeds Patrick Schwarz-Schütte, who resigned from office at the end of the shareholders’ meeting.
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“We have already made good progress in the transformation of Haniel in recent years. I am proud to be able to accompany the company on an important part of this journey,” said Nowotne. “Now it’s a matter of initiating the completion of the generational change on the supervisory board so that the family can take over leadership of the board again next year.”
With regard to Vollmoeller, the newcomer to the board, the 49-year-old explained: “His expertise will help us in particular with the further development of corporate culture and digital business models.” the year before. The operating result also increased by 18 percent to 276 million euros.
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