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Supervisory Board STRABAG SE
The STRABAG SE Supervisory Board monitors and advises on key corporate decisions.
18 June 2010; 1 January 2024 (assumption of the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board)
Independent pursuant to Rule 53 ÖGCK
Yes
Kerstin Gelbmann graduated from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with a degree in business and then spent five years working in auditing and tax consulting at Auditor Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH (initially a representative of Arthur Andersen in Vienna, then a full member of Deloitte). After passing the tax consultant examination, she joined Dr. Erhard F. Grossnigg's group of companies in 2002 with initial responsibility for various areas, including restructuring consulting and M&A Vienna University of Economics and Business. She has been managing director of grosso holding Gesellschaft mbH since 2007. In 2010, she was also appointed to the Management Board of Austro Holding AG, where she has built and continued to expand an SME investment portfolio. At the Supervisory Board meeting on 19 December 2023, Kerstin Gelbmann was unanimously elected as the new chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of STRABAG SE with effect from 1 January 2024.
Erwin Hameseder completed his law degree at the University of Vienna. From 1975 to 1987, he served as an officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, where he achieved the rank of colonel in the directorship services in 2002 and of brigadier in 2006. In 2017, he was promoted to major general in the militia of the Austrian Armed Forces. In 1987, he joined the legal department of RAIFFEISENLANDESBANK NIEDERÖSTERREICH-WIEN reg.Gen.m.b.H. From 1988 to 1994, he was responsible for investment management, from 1991 as head of the department. He was managing director of RAIFFEISENLANDESBANK NIEDERÖSTERREICH-WIEN reg.Gen.m.b.H. from 1994 to 2001 and director general of RAIFFEISENHOLDING NIEDERÖSTERREICH-WIEN reg. Gen.m.b.H (a spin-off from RAIFFEISENLANDES- BANK NIEDERÖSTERREICH-WIEN AG) from 2001 to 2012. From 2007 to 2012, Erwin Hameseder was also Chairman of the Management Board of RAIFFEISENLANDESBANK NIEDERÖSTERREICH-WIEN AG. He has been chairman of RAIFFEISENHOLDING NIEDERÖSTERREICH-WIEN reg. Gen.m.b.H. since 4 May 2012 and was elected Advocate General of the Austrian Raiffeisen Association on 30 June 2022. Erwin Hameseder, who has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 1998, was elected to the Supervisory Board of STRABAG SE at the Annual General Meeting of 24 June 2022 with a term in office until the end of the Annual General Meeting that resolves on formally approving the actions of the Supervisory Board for the 2027 financial year.
Pursuant to Annex 1 of the Austrian Code of Corporate Governance 2021, Supervisory Board members who are shareholders with a direct investment in the company or represent the interests of such a shareholder, are still deemed independent after a period of 15 years on the Supervisory Board.
Andreas Brandstetter has been CEO of UNIQA Insurance Group AG since 2011. Before entering the insurance business in 1997, where he has held various leadership positions, he was head of the EU office of the Austrian Raiffeisen Association. From 1993 to 1995, he held roles in politically affiliated areas. Andreas Brandstetter graduated from the University of Vienna in 1994 with a doctorate degree in political science. He also holds an Executive MBA from the California State University, Hayward, and completed further courses at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Harvard Business School. Since 2018, he has been the president of Insurance Europe, a European insurance and reinsurance federation in Brussels.
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Valerie Hackl is Managing Director of Gas Connect Austria and has extensive experience in various management positions, including as Managing Director of Austro Control GmbH from 2019 to 2024 and previously as a Management Board member of ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG. From 2005 to 2011, she worked as a consultant for the international strategy consultancy Bain & Company in Munich. Valerie Hackl studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the University of British Columbia. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of St. Gallen. In 2024, Valerie Hackl was appointed to the Supervisory Board of STRABAG SE for an indefinite period of time by the authorised holder of registered share number 1.
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Gabriele Schallegger studied business administration at the University of Graz and the University of Exeter and completed an executive management program in St. Gallen. She began her career in auditing and tax consulting, followed by management and executive positions in the commercial sector in international corporations such as Baxter, Orkla ASA, Semperit, Mondi PLC and Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG. Since late 2023, Schallegger has been the CFO of CMBlu Energy. CMBlu, with its Organic-SolidFlow batteries, is a world leader in the development of large electrochemical energy storage systems and an important German battery manufacturer based in the Rhine-Main area.
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Andreas Batke joined STRABAG AG, Cologne, as a land surveyor in 1991.
He has been a member of the works council since May 1998 and currently serves as chairman of the general works council and chairman of the group works council of STRABAG AG, Cologne, vice chairman of the STRABAG SE works council and member of the Supervisory Board of STRABAG AG, Cologne.
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Magdolna P. Gyulainé joined a predecessor company of STRABAG in Hungary as a bookkeeper in 1981 and is currently chairwoman of the employee representative organisation of the Hungarian group companies.
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Georg Hinterschuster completed an apprenticeship in commercial site management at STRABAG Bau GmbH from 1984 to 1987.
He launched his career as a group clerk in geotechnical engineering in St Valentin, Austria. From 1997 to 2000, he took over commercial management responsibilities for the Transportation Infrastructures and the Building Construction & Civil Engineering segments in the Czech Republic, and from 2000 to 2008, he worked as a commercial group manager in building construction and civil engineering in Upper Austria. Georg Hinterschuster was elected to the works council in 1991 and is currently a member of the group and central works council of STRABAG in Austria as well as a member of the STRABAG SE works council.
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Karl Gerdes began his career as a carpenter at STRABAG AG, Cologne, in 1988 and subsequently worked as an occupational safety specialist within the Group. He was elected to the works council in 1998 and is currently chair of the general works council of Ed. Züblin AG. Karl Gerdes is a member of the Supervisory Board of both Ed. Züblin AG and STRABAG AG, Cologne.
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