As of December 31, 2023, the Supervisory Board of PCC SE comprised the following three members:
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert (64) has been Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE since 2021. Previously, Dr. Ritzert had been associated with the PCC Group as an adviser. Originally a chemist by profession, he has also served as Managing Director of Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH and Head of the Evonik China organization. He holds various mandates outside PCC SE, including as a member of the supervisory board of Röhm GmbH, and is active as both a consultant and an investor.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Utilizing his many years of experience in Eastern Europe to harness the opportunities arising there as a result of market liberalization, Waldemar Preussner (65) established in 1993 Petro Carbo Chem Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft mbH (today: PCC Trade & Services GmbH), a company that remains at the core of the PCC Group. 1998 then saw the carve-out of the holding company PCC AG, and in 2007 its corporate form was changed to that of a European company (Societas Europaea or SE). Waldemar Preussner is the sole shareholder of PCC SE and continues to serve as Chairman of its Supervisory Board. He also holds a number of supervisory board mandates within the PCC Group, in particular at PCC Exol SA (Chair) and at PCC Rokita SA.
Member of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Reinhard Quint (81) began supporting the PCC Group in an advisory, non-executive role in 2002 and has been a member of its Supervisory Board since 2021. Prior to that he was, for many years, Chairman of ThyssenKrupp Services AG (known today as ThyssenKrupp Materials International GmbH) of Essen, Germany.