Corporate Governance

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG

Mr. Reiner Winkler has been a member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since May 2022. Mr. Winkler has been Chairman of the Board of Management of MTU Aero Engines AG from 2014 until 2022. He began his professional career in 1985 at Siemens AG. Since 2001, Mr. Winkler has been with MTU Aero Engines AG, where he has held various management positions. He studied business administration at Philips University in Marburg.

Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG

Mr. Maier-Junker has been vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since 2020. Mr. Maier-Junker has been a member of the works council of the company’s Ulm site since 1987 and Chairman of the Ulm committee since 2013. At that time, the company operated under the names AEG-Telefunken, Telefunken Systemtechnik, DASA, EADS, Airbus Defence and Space, among others. During this time, Mr. Maier-Junker was temporarily a member of the supervisory board of Telefunken Systemtechnik GmbH and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH. Since 2016 he has been chairman of the general works council of HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH and since 2017 chairman of the group works council of HENSOLDT Holding GmbH. From 1978 to 1982, Mr. Maier-Junker completed two industrial-technical apprenticeships as a communications equipment mechanic and radio electronics technician at AEG-Telefunken with successful skilled worker examinations. From 2004 to 2005, he studied social policy, labor and social law and economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt within the framework of the “Akademie der Arbeit”.

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Dr. Jürgen Bestle has been a Member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since May 2021, representing the executive employees. Dr. Bestle has been CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and Head of Engineering Governance of HENSOLDT AG, as well as Head of Design Organisation of HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH. He started his professional career at Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG in 1997 and held various engineering management and chief engineering positions at Ulm and Toulouse. Dr. Bestle holds a Ph.D. degree in quantum physics from the University of Ulm.

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Jürgen Bühl has been Member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since 2020. Mr. Bühl has also been member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH since 2017. Since 2012, Mr. Bühl has held different positions at the headquarters of IG Metall; he is currently head of the department Coordination of Industrial Sector Policies. Prior to that, Mr. Bühl served as director for planning processes and communications as well as managing director. Mr. Bühl worked in various positions in the field of public relations and communications, after he started his professional career as an employee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in Munich in 1992. Mr. Bühl holds a Master of Arts in political science, communication science, and sociology from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.

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Mrs. Colucci has been a member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since May 2022. She has been General Manager at the Med-Or Leonardo Foundation since 2021. Mr. Colucci has over 30 years of experience in the defense and aerospace industry due to her various positions in Leonardo Group companies and other companies in the defense and aerospace industry. From 2013 to 2021, Mrs. Colucci was Secretary General at Telespazio S.p.A. She has a degree in law from the University Federico II in Naples.

Marco Fuchs, born in 1962, studied law in Berlin and Hamburg. After the second state examination, he worked as a lawyer in Hamburg. He also completed a master's degree (LLM) at New York University. After his admission as Attorney-at-Law he worked for the American law firm Jones Day in New York and later in Frankfurt. In 1995 Mr. Fuchs returned to Bremen. Initially, he worked as an authorized signatory at OHB System GmbH, the family company founded by his parents.

Since November 2000, he has been CEO of OHB SE, the Group's holding company. OHB SE is Germany's first listed space company, employing over 3,000 people.

Marco Fuchs has been Honorary Consul of the Republic of Italy in the State of Bremen since 2008. In the German Aerospace Industries Association BDLI e.V., he has held the office of Treasurer since 2015 and Vice President for Space since 2017. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Science Council of the German Federal Government.

Mr. Gruber has been a member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since May 2021 and Chairman of the Works Council of HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH since January 2021. Since 2016 member of works council, he was elected first deputy chairman of the works council of HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH in 2018. Mr Gruber has held various positions in the Customer Service department at HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH. Most recently, he was a team leader in Customer Service for Service Management at HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH. He began his professional career in 1986 at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blom GmbH in Kirchheim Teck-Nabern. He has a background as trained insurance salesman.

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Ingrid Jägering has been Member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since 2020. Since 2017, she has been member of the supervisory board of HENSOLDT Holding GmbH. Since 2022, Mrs. Jägering has been a member of the Management Board and CFO at Stihl Holding AG & Co. KG. From 2019 until 2022, Ms. Jägering has been member of Leoni’s management board and the company’s CFO and labor director. Until 2019, she served as executive vice president, CFO, managing director, and labor director at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. From 2012 until 2016, Ms. Jägering was vice president and CFO for the business units turbo machinery and power plants of MAN Diesel & Turbo SE. Ms. Jägering started her professional career at Siemens in 1988, where she held various management positions in Germany and abroad until 2012, including, among others, executive vice president, CFO, and managing director at Siemens Wind Power AS in Denmark.

Marion Koch has been member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since 2020. Since 2017, she has been member of the works council of HENSOLDT’s Immenstaad site and the group works council. Ms. Koch currently works at HENSOLDT as project manager for airborne, space & ISR radars. From 2006 until 2017, she worked at Airbus/EADS Deutschland. Prior to that, she worked at Dräger Aerospace, ASTRIUM and Junghans Uhren. Ms. Koch studied biomedical engineering in Wilhelmshaven and mechanical engineering in Dundee, United Kingdom.

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Mr. Panizzardi has been a supervisory board member of HENSOLDT AG since December 2023. Currently he is Senior Vice President M&A & Corporate Development at LEONARDO S.p.A. and board member of Leonardo International S.p.A.. Since 2009 he has been responsible for M&A transactions and corporate development at Leonardo Group and has strong professional experience in M&A and capital markets transactions for about 30 years, including positions at UBS Investment Bank and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. Mr. Panizzardi holds an MBA from the London Business School and has a degree in Electronics Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Julia Wahl has been member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since 2020. Since September 2022, Ms. Wahl has been press spokeswoman of IG Metall Baden-Württemberg. From 2018 to 2022, Ms. Wahl served as a personal assistant to the district manager of IG Metall Baden-Württemberg. She served as personal assistant to the general works council and group works council of Porsche from 2016 until 2018. Ms. Wahl was a campaign assistant for the 2016 state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Prior to that, she started her professional career at Vodafone Stiftung in 2014. Ms. Wahl holds a BA in German and Slavonic studies from the Humboldt University in Berlin and a MSc in European economic integration from the University of Leipzig.

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Ms. Hiltrud Dorothea Werner has been a member of the Supervisory Board of HENSOLDT AG since September 2022. She has been Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG since November 2021. The governance and sustainability expert actively supports women in their professional development in many networks and is also involved on a voluntary basis in foundations and the SPD Economic Forum. Her professional career in the automotive industry included positions in Germany and abroad at BMW AG, MAN SE, ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Volkswagen AG. There, she was most recently the Board Member for Integrity and Legal Affairs from 2017 to 2022. Ms. Werner studied economics with a focus on business information systems at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.