Innogy SE

Alexander Stechert-Mayerhöfer has been appointed new Senior Vice President Public Affairs & Communications of innogy SE, Essen/Germany. He has taken over the Public Affairs & Communications unit from Peter Heinacher, who has left the energy company. Previously, Stechert-Mayerhöfer was Head of Group Media Relations and responsible for overall communications on the innogy side regarding the E.ON transaction. In his new function he will be in charge of External and Internal Communications, Energy Policy, Branding, Corporate Responsibility as well as Events & Sponsoring throughout the Group. His area of responsibility also includes the internal services and agency platform, which pools all social media, content marketing, analytics, user experience and user interface activities for the entire group.

At its meeting on 10th October 2019, the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Essen/Germany, elected Johannes Teyssen, Chief Executive Officer of E.ON SE, as its Chairman. Teyssen replaces Erhard Schipporeit, who had stepped down from the Supervisory Board along with the other shareholder representatives following the takeover of innogy by E.ON. The Supervisory Board also resolved on a number of changes to the Executive Board of innogy, which will consist of three members in future. The new Chief Executive Officer of innogy will be Leonhard Birnbaum, who will also assume responsibility for innogy’s grid and retail business. He will also remain a member of the E.ON Board of Management, and in this capacity will be responsible for the integration of innogy. Birnbaum succeeds Uwe Tigges as CEO, whose appointment, like that of Executive Board members Hans Bünting, Arno Hahn, Martin Herrmann and Hildegard Müller, was terminated by mutual agreement. Bernhard Günther, the current Chief Financial Officer of innogy, will remain in office and will also take on HR in addition to his existing duties. The Supervisory Board also appointed Christoph Radke, previously Vice President Corporate & Governance and CEO of various Group companies of E.ON, as a further member of the innogy Executive Board. Radke’s responsibilities will include the renewables business as well as all legal and compliance-related matters and procurement.

innogy SE’s Head of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Gerwig Koch, is leaving the company based in Essen/Germany, by the middle of 2020 on his own request. Koch was one of the key figures on the part of innogy SE in the planned E.ON/RWE-transaction. A business graduate and former investment banker, Koch has led, strategically directed and implemented mergers & acquisition transactions at RWE AG and innogy SE for over 15 years.

General Counsel of innogy SE, Claudia Mayfeld, will be leaving innogy SE, Essen/Germany, at her own wish. At the request of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Mayfeld will remain with the company until 30th June 2020 in order to work with her team on providing legal support for the structural measures being taken within the framework of the planned RWE/E.ON transaction.

Peter Heinacher, Senior Vice President Public Affairs & Communications at innogy SE, will leave the energy company in late summer after almost 12 years in the energy industry. Peter Heinacher is being responsible for External and Internal Communications, Energy Politics, Branding, Corporate Responsibility as well as Events & Sponsoring throughout the Group.

As part of the creation of a new power distribution company in the UK, Innogy SE, Essen/Germany, and the British natural gas supply, power supply and telecommunications company SSE plc. announced the appointment of Martin Read as Chairman of the Management Board of the new company on 1st October 2018.

On 31st December 2017, Werner Brandt stepped down as Chair of the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Essen/Germany. His successor has provisionally been named as Erhard Schipporeit, former Chief Financial Officer at E.ON.

On 19th December 2017, innogy parted ways with its Chair of the Management Board, Peter Terium. The Supervisory Board will appoint his successor in due course.

Innogy SE, Essen/Germany, brought Stefan von Dobschütz, formerly at BMW AG, into the company on 8th May 2017 to help run the eMobility business unit.