Experienced Management Team

Hartwig Fuchs (1959), Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

• CEO of Nordzucker AG since 1 Febuary 2010
• Responsibilities: Corporate Human Resources, Corporate Public Affairs, Corporate Communications, Corporate Legal, Corporate Business Development, Corporate Internal Audit

Erfahrungen:

• 2007-2009
  Chairman of the Management Board, Toepfer International, Hamburg
• 2003-2007
  Member of the Management Board, Toepfer International, Hamburg
• 2001-2003
  Executive General Manager Cereals and Oilseeds, Toepfer International, Hamburg
• 1996-2001
  Joint CEO / Chief Trader, Toepfer International Asia, Singapur
• 1988-1996
  Various managerial posts with Toepfer International in Hamburg, Bombay and Singapore
• 1979-1988
  Joined and underwent training with Alfred C. Toepfer, first periods of work abroad

Axel Aumüller (1957), Chief Operating Officer (COO)

• Member of the Nordzucker AG Executive Board since 9 November 2009
• Responsibilities: Production Nordzucker Group; Energy & Technical Projects; Corporate Procurement; Corporate Innovation & Technology and Sustainable Development

Experience:

• 2009:
  Managing Director Central Europe and Senior Vice President Production Central Europe
• 2003-2008:
  Head of division Production, most recently: Member of the Management Board Production / Procurement and Logistics
• 1997-2003:
  Plant Manager, sugar factory Uelzen (Germany)
• 1983-1997:
  Leading technical positions at Zuckerverbund Nord AG (since 1998: Nordzucker AG)

Mats Liljestam (1959), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

• Member of the Nordzucker AG Executive Board since 23 June 2009
• Responsibilities: Sales Northern Europe

Experience:

• 1993-2009:
  Various management positions Sockerbolaget / Danisco Sugar, most recently Executive Vice President Marketing & Sales
• 1988-1993:
  Executive Vice President Finance, SCA Emballage
• 1984-1988:
  Controller, SCA Packaging

Dr. Michael Noth (1962), Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

• Member of the Nordzucker AG Executive Board since 16 August 2009
• Responsibilities: Corporate Finance, Controlling, Tax, Corporate Treasury, Corporate Insurance, Risk-, Crisis-Management, Corporate IT

Experience:

• 2000-2009
  Various management positions within the Benteler Group, most recently as head of finance and accounts
• 1997-2000:
  Head of financial control, Lighting division, Hella KG
• 1995-1997:
  In-house consultant/financial controller, Varta AG
• 1990-1995:
  Advisor, McKinsey & Company

Dr. Niels Pörksen (1963), Chief Agricultural Officer (CAO)

• Member of the Nordzucker AG Executive Board since 1 October 2009
• Responsibilities: Beet Procurement Central Europe, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe; Corporate Beet Supply Strategy

Experience:

• 1992-2009
  Various management positions, BASF, most recently head of Global Strategic Marketing – Fungicides
• 1998-1991:
  Teacher, agricultural vocational college
• 1988-1992:
  Scientific assistant, University of Kiel

•  German Agricultural Industry Association (IVA):
  2005-2007  President

  2003-2005  Chairmen

Supervisory Board

Dr. Harald Isermeyer (1953) Chairman of the Supervisory Board

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board since 2006
• Member of the Supervisory Board since 2004

Members of the Supervisory Board

Shareholders’ representatives:

• Dr. Harald Isermeyer (Chairman), Farmer, Vordorf
• Helmut Meyer (Deputy Chairman), Farmer, Betheln
• Gerhard Borchert, Farmer, Brohme
• Hans Jochen Bosse, Farmer, Ohrum
• Dr. Karl Heinz Engel, Managing Director of Hochwald Nahrungsmittelwerke Riol
• Michael Gerlif, chief financial officer of Lekkerland AG & Co. KG, Frechen 
• Dr. Clemes Große Frie, Chairman of the Management Board of  AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG, Münster/Hannover
• Henning Hansen-Hogrefe, Farmer, Ingeleben
• Dr. Hans Theo Jachmann, Managing Director of SYNGENTA Agro Germany/Austria, Maintal
• Jochen Johannes Juister, Farmer, Nordhastedt
• Rainer Knackstedt, Farmer, Dedeleben
• Hans-Christian Koehler, Farmer, Barum
• Hans-Heinrich Prüße, Farmer, Ahlten
• Andreas Scheffrahn, Farmer, Cramme

Employees' representatives:

• Gerd von Glowczewski, Metalworker, Schladen
• Rolf Huber-Frey, Economist, Freiburg
• Sigrun Krussmann, Laboratory assistant, Seelze
• Dr. Andreas Schwarz, Chemist (chemical engineering), Braunschweig
• Wolfgang Wiesener, Mechanic, Uelzen
• Dieter Woischke, Locksmith, Algermissen
• Marina Strootmann, industrial clerk, Braunschweig