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Dr. Berlien has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since October 2021. Prior to joining INNIO, Dr. Berlien worked at Osram AG, Munich, a publicly listed global leader in the semiconductor-based lighting and sensor industries, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2015 to February 2021.

Prior to Osram AG, Dr. Berlien was the Chief Executive Officer at Exyte AG, a global leader in engineering, from November 2013 to January 2015. Prior to Exyte AG, Dr. Berlien worked at ThyssenKrupp AG, Essen, a publicly listed company, between 2002 and 2013, and was named a member of the executive board in 2002. Dr. Berlien’s responsibilities at ThyssenKrupp AG included overseeing the controlling, M&A, corporate development, and IT departments. In 2004, he was named CEO of ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG, a leader in plant technology in the fertilizer, oil and gas, and automotive industries, and in 2009, he became CEO of ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG, a global leader in elevators and escalators. Prior to joining ThyssenKrupp AG, Dr. Berlien worked at Carl Zeiss AG, a leader in optics and optoelectronics, from 1996 to 2002 as the head of the Measurement Division. Dr. Berlien also served as President of Carl Zeiss IMT Corp. and was named a member of the executive board as CFO of Carl Zeiss AG in 1998. Dr. Berlien began his career at IBM in 1988 and there held leadership roles in controlling, software development, and general management. Dr. Berlien also served on the boards of directors of public and non-public companies, including Osram AG, where he served on the compensation, audit, and strategy committees from 2015 to 2021, and ThyssenKrupp AG. Dr. Berlien holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a Doctorate in Economics from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He has held an Honorary Professorship of the Faculty of Technology and Innovation Management at the Technical University of Berlin since 2011 and a teaching lectureship since 2006. We believe Dr. Berlien’s prior executive leadership, global industrial and technology sector expertise and public company governance experience, as well as his knowledge of M&A, finance, and corporate development and decades of experience leading complex, multinational businesses, make him particularly qualified to serve on our board of directors.

Dr. Schulze has served as our Chief Financial Officer and on our board of directors since April 2019. In addition to his responsibilities as Chief Financial Officer, Dr. Schulze is responsible for heading mergers and acquisitions at INNIO.

In his roles, Dr. Schulze oversees global finance, accounting, controlling, treasury, tax, financial reporting, corporate governance, capital structure, and M&A activities. Prior to joining INNIO, Dr. Schulze was the Group Chief Financial Officer and a managing director of H.C. Starck Group, a global market leader in refractory metals and advanced technical ceramics, from December 2016 to April 2019. Prior to H.C. Starck, Dr. Schulze was the Chief Financial Officer at Douglas Holding AG, a leading European omnichannel beauty retailer with operations in 19 countries, from 2013 to 2015. At Douglas Holding AG, Dr. Schulze was responsible for group finance, investor relations, corporate finance, mergers, and acquisitions and change management, and supervised acquisitions, divestments and capital markets initiatives, including IPO readiness and dual-track exit processes. Prior to his tenure at Douglas Holding AG, Dr. Schulze served as a Managing Director at the Carlyle Group, from 1999 to 2012, where he led the firm’s DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) buyout business from 2009 to 2012 and was integral to the management of a multi-billion, European focused fund. During his tenure at the Carlyle Group, Dr. Schulze led and executed acquisitions, carve-outs, and exits across industrial, automotive, healthcare, and consumer sectors, served on portfolio company boards, and worked closely with management teams on strategy, governance, operational improvement, and value creation initiatives. Dr. Schulze began his professional career as an Assistant Professor and Project Manager at the Institut für Revisionswesen at the University of Münster in 1995. Dr. Schulze holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (DiplomKaufmann) and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Münster. We believe Dr. Schulze’s extensive senior financial leadership experience, private equity background and expertise in accounting, financial reporting, corporate finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and governance, together with his proven experience leading value-generation initiatives and operational and strategic transformation programs, as well as overseeing the execution of complex transactions across multinational businesses, make him particularly qualified to serve on our board of directors.

Dr. Andreas Kunz. Dr. Kunz has served as our Chief Technology Officer since September 2020. In his role, Dr. Kunz oversees innovation and new technology introduction, product development and new product introduction as well as the entire customer order engineering.

Prior to joining INNIO, Dr. Kunz spent nearly two decades at Rolls Royce Power Systems (formerly DaimlerChrysler, Tognum, MTU), a global leader in power and energy solutions based on diesel and gas engines, from January 2001 to August 2020. During his tenure at Rolls Royce Power Systems, Dr. Kunz held a series of increasingly senior leadership roles, including Vice President Engine Platforms, where he was responsible for all engine platform product developments, Vice President of Global Manufacturing and Vice President Operations Onsite Energy, where he was responsible for the global operational setup and growth of the stationary power generation business. In parallel, Dr. Kunz served as Managing Director of Rolls Royce Solutions Augsburg, where the gas engine based power generation products where developed and assembled. Dr. Kunz was also elected as a member of the Supervisory Board of Rolls Royce Power Systems AG and MTU Friedrichshafen as a representative of the executives from 2017 to 2020. Dr. Kunz has also served as a member of the board of VDMA Engines & Systems, a globally active, German-based mechanical engineering and trade association since January 2021. Dr. Kunz holds a Vordiplom (Bachelor of Science) in Mechanical Engineering and a Diplom-Ingenieur (Master of Science) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Duisburg-Essen and a Doktor-Ingenieur (Ph.D.) in Mechanical and Process Engineering from the Institut of Combustion and Gas Dynamics in Duisburg. Dr. Kunz has also completed the Global Leadership Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Lean Management Training in Japan and various Rolls Royce Management Development Programs.