Supervisory Board of Uniper SE elects Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Maubach as Chairman
- Newly formed Supervisory Board convened today in extraordinary meeting for the first time
- Uniper Supervisory Board and Management Board decide to hold a purely virtual Annual General Meeting on May 20, 2020
- Shareholders can exercise their voting rights as usual
- Virtual Annual General Meeting enables scheduled payment of the proposed dividend of EUR 1.15 per share for the 2019 financial year
Today at an extraordinary meeting, the first with all the new members recently appointed by the Düsseldorf District Court, the Supervisory Board of Uniper SE elected Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Maubach (58) as new Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
“Uniper is a great company operating in an industry experiencing a pivotal moment in its history. In addition, the world is in the midst of unprecedented and challenging times in which the Management Board needs a Supervisory Board that ensures support and stability,” said Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Maubach after his election.
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Maubach began his career in the energy sector in 1995. Over the last 25 years, he has fulfilled many leadership roles in several energy companies, such as E.ON. In addition, he is also a member of other Supervisory Boards, like the ones of ABB Deutschland AG and of Fortum Oyj.
In addition to the Chairman, the new Supervisory Board members hold vast expertise in the energy industry, such as Prof. Dr. Werner Brinker (68), who build a strong background in the gas, power and infrastructure sectors at EWE AG; Dr. Bernhard Günther (52), currently CFO of innogy SE and previously of RWE since 1999; Sirpa-Helena Sormunen (61), currently General Counsel of Fortum Oyj, has held several legal and managerial positions at Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks before; and Tiina Tuomela (53), now Executive Vice President, Generation, of Fortum Oyj, having also held several managerial positions at Fortum since 1990.
The CEO of Uniper SE, Andreas Schierenbeck on the election of the new Chairman: “We at the Management Board of Uniper SE welcome Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Maubach and all the other Supervisory Board members. The tremendous expertise in the energy sector we have at the current Supervisory Board will be of great support to us.”
The Supervisory Board members that continue from the previous composition include Markus Rauramo (Deputy Chairman of the shareholder representatives of the Uniper Supervisory Board), and the six employee representatives: Harald Seegatz (Deputy Chairman of the employee representatives of the Uniper Supervisory Board), Ingrid Åsander, Oliver Biniek, Barbara Jagodzinski, André Muilwijk, and Immo Schlepper. This brings the Supervisory Board again to twelve members in total.
Further information on the members of the Uniper Supervisory Board are available on the Uniper website: https://ir.uniper.energy/websites/uniper/English/6200/supervisory-board.html.
The court-appointed Supervisory Board members are to be newly elected to the Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting on May 20, 2020.
Virtual Annual General Meeting on May 20, 2020
Due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the associated risks, the Management Board and the Supervisory Board of Uniper SE have decided to hold the Annual General Meeting planned for 20 May 2020 as a purely virtual meeting.
Uniper thus makes use of the supplementary rules to the German Stock Corporation Act recently created in the wake of the Corona crisis according to which general meetings can also be held purely virtually without the physical participation of shareholders.
Uniper attaches particular importance to ensuring that the rights of shareholders are safeguarded in the best possible way even in the virtual format. This means that they can exercise their voting rights as usual. Today’s resolution also ensures that the virtual Annual General Meeting can enable the scheduled payment of the proposed dividend of €1.15 per share for the 2019 financial year.
Details on the holding of the virtual Annual General Meeting will be included in the invitation, which will be published in due course at https://uniper.energy/agm.
About Uniper
Uniper is a leading international energy company with around 11,500 employees and activities in more than 40 countries. With about 34 GW of installed generation capacity, Uniper is among the largest global power generators. Its main activities include power generation in Europe and Russia as well as global energy trading, including a diversified gas portfolio that makes Uniper one of Europe’s leading gas companies. In 2019, Uniper sold a gas volume of 220 bcm. The company is headquartered in Düsseldorf, being the third-largest listed German utility. Under its new strategy, Uniper aims to become carbon-neutral in Europe by 2035.
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