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In his role as Chief Digital Officer, Matthew Timms has been managing the newly formed Digital Business Unit of E.ON SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, since 1st August 2016. Timms was previously responsible for digital business at SAP AG in London.

The current Senior Managing Director of Gazprom Germania GmbH, Berlin/Germany, Vyaches-lav Krupenkov, is retiring from the company. Andrey Biryulin is now the company‘s sole Managing Director.

In its meeting on 24th August 2016, the Supervisory Board of K + S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel/Germany, appointed Dr. Burk-hard Lohr future Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the company. Currently Chief Financial Officer of K + S, Lohr is due to take over from Norbert Steiner when he retires on 12th May 2017. The Super-visory Board is due to appoint additional members ...

On 1st July 2016, the former Head of the Lignite-Fired Power Stations business division at RWE Power AG, Armin Eichholz, succeeded Joachim Geisler as Chairman of the Board of Management of Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft mbH (MIBRAG), Zeitz/Germany.

On 8th July 2016, Bruno Daude-Lagrave became Managing Director of Total Deutschland GmbH, Berlin/Germany. Prior to that, he managed AS24, the HGV automatic filling station business unit of Total. Daude-Lagrave succeeded Hans-Christian Gützkow, who has moved to the parent company in Paris/France.

Patricia Espinosa Cantellano of Mexico is the new Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in Bonn/Germany. She succeeded Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, who served a term of six years in office.

The Executive Board of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), Berlin/Germany, has re-elected Johannes Kampmann, Technical Director at Städtische Werke Magdeburg, as President. The BDEW Vice Presidents are Jörg Simon, Chairman of the Board of Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Christian Meyer-Hammerström, Managing Director at Osterholzer Stadtwerke, Dieter Steinkamp, Chairman of the Board of Rheinenergie AG, and Rolf Martin Schmitz, ...

Martin Bachmann, Member of the Board at Wintershall Holding GmbH, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Board of the Federal Association of Natural Gas, Crude Oil and Geothermal Energy (BVEG), Hanover, formerly the German Industrial Association of Oil and Gas Producers (WEG), following Gernot Kalkoffen‘s decision to step down.

The Supervisory Board of Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW), Karlsruhe/Germany, has elected Lutz Feldmann as its new Chairman, taking over from Claus Dieter Hoffmann.

Florian Barsch, former Managing Director at the production subsidiary ExxonMobil Production GmbH, was appointed the new Chairman of the Board of ExxonMobil Central Europe Holding GmbH (EMCEHG), Hamburg/Germany, on 1st July 2016. His predecessor Gernot Kalkoffen is now Chairman of the Supervisory Board.