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Corporate Governance – portrayed in the individual cultural and legal framework, from the standpoint of equity capital.

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Louise M. Parent has joined the Deutsche Bank Supervisory Board with effect July 1. The board’s Selection Committee had proposed appointing the New York-based lawyer to replace Suzanne Labarge who unilaterally resigned her seat on June 30. According to the bank, Canadian-born Labarge had hinted at last year’s shareholders’ meeting that she was considering not having her appointment run its full term.

 

 

 

 

Deutsche Börse has proposed a Chinese national as candidate to its Supervisory Board. Amy Yok Tak Yip, nominated on July 24, has a wealth of experience in the Asian financial industry and has held high-echelon posts, including the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and DBS Bank. Born in Hong Kong, Amy is expected to be voted on to the Supervisory Board next year at the time when its membership will be cut from 18 to 12. Her appointment is testimony to Deutsche Börse’s commitment to growth in Asia.

 

 

 

 

Citing personal reasons, Matthias Böge has stated his intention of resigning from Deutsche Euroshop’s board of directors by June 30, 2015. The news emerged unobtrusively almost as a post scriptum to the MDax-listed company communiqué on ‘expansion of the board of directors’. As of 1 July 2015, he will be replaced by Wilhelm Wellner who from 1 February, 2015  has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) initially to look after business operations.

 

 

 

 

In a surprise move, Angela Titzrath is quitting as Head of Human Resources and Employment in Deutsche Post. In a brief communiqué, the postal and logistics group states that Titzrath is resigning two years into her contract, due to expire in April 2015, ‘for personal reasons'. Verdi, the third sector trade union has expressed its appreciation of her work.

 

 

 

 

Lars  Singbartl  resigned his seat on the Kontron Supervisory Board at the end of June. His heir apparent is Harald Joachim Joos, an engineer who must be appointed by the appropriate tribunal. Loos had been Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus Deutschland GmbH since 2009. Similarly to Warburg Pincus, Triton also has a (12 per cent) stake in the manufacturer of small computers which is  presently in the process of being restructured.

 

 

 

 

Metro has lost one of the two female, capital-side representatives of the Supervisory Board.  Lucy Neville-Rolfe who up to now has chaired Eurocommerce, is going into politics. The sixty-one year old former Tesco manager has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary of State to the Exchequer with responsibility for innovation and professional training which oblige her to resign her mandate to the Supervisory Board of the German trading conglomerate.

 

Werner Brand is joining the Supervisory Board of OSRAM Licht. The former CFO of SAP replaces Joachim Faber who resigned his seat leaving the board on July 1. The change is to be viewed in the light of the limited number of mandates in the banks. When his appointment has been made official, Brandt will also succeed Faber to the presidency of the examining committee.

 

Höft & Wessel: more growth, more work

 

Höft & Wessel AG, a Droege Group company is set to increase its number of board members. The Hanover based Prime Standard listed concern is forecasting sustainable growth and, effective July 1, appointed Thomas Dibbern to the new position of head of international sales. A graduate in political economy and political studies, Dibbern will bolster the management of the company and the orientation of the clientele to its range of ticket and parking receipt machines and mobile terminals. Prior to Höft & Wessel, he was head of international sales in an SME in a similar area of business.

 

 

 

 

Nanostart: Asia calling

Nanostart AG, the Entry Standard listed nanotechnology company, has announced that Marco Beckmann, the chair of the board of directors, resigned in mid July. He has been appointed managing director of the company’s subsidiary, Nanostart Westbridge, with responsibility for Asian business. Beckmann’s boardroom duties will be taken on in the interim by the chair of the Supervisory Board  Norbert Neef.