Dr. Olaf Berlien
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.
