Date of birth: 29.06.1967
Education: September 1987 to June 1989 Apprenticeship as a bank clerk
at Dresdner Bank AG in Düsseldorf
Studies: October 1989 to November 1994 Heinrich-heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Business administration
Degree: Graduate in business administration
Profession:
May 2016 – October 2019: Chief Operating Officer Grid & Infrastructure, Innogy SE
October 2008 – January 2016: Chief Executive Officer of BDEW e.V. (German Association of Energy and Water Industries), Berlin
November 2005 – September 2008: Minister of State to the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
October 2002 – September 2008: Member of the German Parliament (Bundestag)
March 1995 – September 2008: Dresdner bank AG, Head of Department (activity suspended in November 2005)