Executive team

Stephan Sielaff

Chief Executive Officer

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Nico Reiner

Chief Financial Officer

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Christian Skilich, MBA

Chief Pulp and Technology Officer

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Walter Bickel

Chief Transformation Officer

Members of the Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board of Lenzing AG consists of nine shareholder representatives elected by the Annual General Meeting and five employee representatives appointed by the Works Council.

 

Thomas Cord Prinzhorn

Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • First appointed: April 14, 2021
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2024 financial year.

Stefan Fida

Deputy Chairman
  • First appointed: April 17, 2019
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2024 financial year.
Supervisory Board mandates in other companies.
  • Semperit AG Holding

Markus Fürst

  • First appointed: April 14, 2021
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2025 financial year.

Helmut Bernkopf

  • First appointed: April 23, 2009
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2025 financial year.
Supervisory Board mandates in other companies:
  • Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank AG
  • OeKB CSD GmbH
  • Acredia Versicherung AG
  • OeKB EH Beteiligungs- und Management AG
  • Österreichische Hotel- und Tourismusbank GmbH

Christian Bruch

  • First appointed: April 17, 2019
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2026 financial year.
Supervisory Board mandates in other companies:
  • Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A.

Franz Gasselsberger

  • First appointed: April 24, 2013
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2027 financial year.
Supervisory Board mandates in other companies:
  • Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg Aktiengesellschaft (Chairman)
  • BKS Bank AG
  • voestalpine AG

Astrid Skala-Kuhmann

  • First appointed: April 19, 2012
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2025 financial year.
Supervisory Board mandates in other companies.
  • Semperit Aktiengesellschaft Holding

Melody Harris-Jensbach

  • First appointed: June 18, 2020
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2023 financial year.

Gerhard Schwartz

  • First appointed: April 19, 2023
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2027 financial year.

Nicole van der Elst Desai

  • First appointed: April 19, 2023
  • Term of office expires: at the Annual General Meeting resolving upon the 2026 financial year.

Appointed to the Supervisory Board by the Works Council

Johann Schernberger

  • Chairman of the Group Works Council Austria
  • Chairman of the Blue-Collar Works Council
  • First appointed: 2001

Georg Liftinger

  • Chairman of the White-Collar Works Council
  • Deputy Chairman of the Group Works Council 
  • Deputy Chairman of the Works Committee
  • First appointed: 2008

Helmut Kirchmair

  • Chairman of the Works Committee
  • Deputy Chairman of the Blue-Collar Works Council
  • First appointed: 2015

Stephan Gruber

  • Deputy Chairman of the White-Collar Works Council
  • First appointed: 2023

Bonita Haag

  • Member of the Blue-Collar Works Council
  • First appointed: 2023