Shareholder Committee of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co KGaA

Shareholder Committee of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co KGaA

Shareholder Committee of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co KGaA

Dirk Roesing

Dirk Roesing is German. He was born in 1963 in Bremerhaven (Germany). Dirk Roesing is Chairman of the Shareholder Committee of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co KGaA since 2015. After earning a degree in business administration in 1986, Dirk Roesing began his career in the Internal Audit department of Daimler Benz AG. After two years, he made an internal move to assume management responsibility for Group Treasury.

From 1994 to 1996, he headed the Controlling and M&A Departments of VOBIS AG, a company of the Metro Group. After that, he served as European Finance Director and German Managing Director of the international Amer Sports Group (which includes the Atomic, Wilson and Salomon brands).

Following on from this, he joined with his fellow board members at telegate AG to establish the directory assistance service in his function as commercial director and supervised the company’s stock market listing. In 2003, he became Executive Board Chairman of the listed SHS Viveon AG, where he has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board from autumn 2009 until May 2013.

He then served as partner and member of the Executive Board of venture capital company b-to-v Partners AG before becoming managing director of Scopus Capital GmbH in 2012. Dirk Roesing is an independent member of the shareholder committee.

Maren Schulze

Maren Schulze is German. She was born in Göttingen (Germany) in 1979. Maren Schulze studied chemistry and marketing at Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences. After earning a master’s degree, she worked for several years at Procter & Gamble in Schwalbach as Senior Researcher Babycare and in Brand Management Healthcare. After holding various international management positions in marketing and sales with companies in the consumer goods and medical engineering sectors, she took on the company succession of the company objective consumer research and consulting GmbH in Frankfurt. This company specialises in qualitative market research and consulting for the consumer goods and pharmaceuticals industries.

Dr. Thomas Hoch

Dr Thomas Hoch is German. He was born in 1967 in Offenbach/Main (Germany). Dr. Thomas Hoch is a member of the Shareholder Committee of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co KGaA since 2015. Dr. Thomas Hoch studied business information systems at Darmstadt University of Technology, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (USA), and University Göttingen. He has worked successfully in the private equity field as an entrepreneur and investor for more than 15 years. Among other roles, he is the founding partner of today’s EVP Capital Management AG and Frankfurter Investmentbank equinet Bank AG. Since 2008, he has been the Managing Partner and Partner at Co-Investor/EVP, where he is responsible for investments in small to medium-sized growth enterprises in the German-speaking countries. Before founding EVP and equinet, he worked for McKinsey & Company for several years as a consultant and project manager focusing on strategy development and implementation. Dr. Thomas Hoch is an independent member of the shareholder committee.