Following the proposal of the Nomination Committee, the Supervisory Board of SAP SE has nominated its candidates for the election of shareholders’ representatives on the Supervisory Board.
Candidates for Reelection
The Supervisory Board of SAP SE has nominated new and incumbent candidates for the election of shareholders’ representatives on the Supervisory Board, which will take place at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on May 15, 2019.
The following shareholders’ representatives will be proposed for reelection:
- Dr. h. c. mult. Hasso Plattner (75), Schriesheim-Altenbach, Germany
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Pekka Ala-Pietilä (62), Helsinki, Finland
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, Huhtamäki Oyj, Espoo, Finland
- Aicha Evans (49), Los Gatos, California, USA
- CEO of Zoox, Foster City, California, USA
- Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees: General and Compensation Committee, Technology and Strategy Committee, People and Organization Committee
- Diane Greene (63), Stanford, California, USA
- Chief Executive Officer, Google Cloud, Google LLC; member of the Board of Directors, Alphabet, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA
- Member of the following Supervisory Board Committee: Technology and Strategy Committee
- Dr. Gesche Joost (44), Berlin, Germany
- Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts and head of the Design Research Lab
- Supervisory board member of SAP SE since 2015
- Bernard Liautaud (56), London, Great Britain
- Managing Partner Balderton Capital, London, Great Britain
- Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees:
- General and Compensation Committee
- Technology and Strategy Committee
- Nomination Committee
- Gerhard Oswald (65), Walldorf, Germany
- Managing Director of Oswald Consulting GmbH, Walldorf, Germany
- Associate lecturer at the Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München), Germany
- Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees:
- Finance and Investment Committee
- Technology and Strategy Committee
- People and Organization Committee
- Friederike Rotsch (46), Koenigstein, Germany
- Group General Counsel, Merck Group, Germany
- Member of the following Supervisory Board Committees:
- Finance and Investment Committee
- Audit Committee
- Special Committee
New Candidate
Further, the Supervisory Board will recommend the following new candidate for election at the AGM:
- Gunnar Wiedenfels (41), CFO of Discovery Communications, Inc., New York, USA, and formerly CFO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Munich, Germany. He would replace Dr. Schipporeit, who will retire from the Supervisory Board after the Annual General Meeting.
In case of his reelection, Prof. Plattner intends to again stand for the Chair of the Supervisory Board. Furthermore, it is intended to propose Dr. Wiedenfels as a candidate for the chair of the Audit Committee in case of his election to the Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board welcomes his deep expertise in EU and US accounting standards and practices.
