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Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1965

Nationality:

German

Professional qualification:

Master Degree in Electrical Engineering (University of the Bundeswehr, Munich)

Professional career

Burkhardt Frick (born 1965) has more than 30 years experience in the high-tech industry. Before his appointment to the Management Board of SUSS MicroTec in September 2023, he had worked for the leading global semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML since 2014. As the Vice President of Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain, he was initially responsible for purchasing and strategic partnerships with some of the company’s most important suppliers. Since 2021, as the Vice President of Corporate Marketing, he has supported the Management Board with the long-term product and market strategy. Between 1994 and 2014, Burkhardt Frick served in various management positions in Philips' mobile display and semiconductor business, with stations of several years each in the USA and Hong Kong. Specifically, he led strategic marketing and sales organizations and most recently served as a member of the Management Board of Assembléon, a former Philips subsidiary. Burkhardt Frick lived in Asia and the USA for many years and has an excellent network in the sales markets that are most important for SUSS MicroTec.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

Member of the Management Board since September 11, 2023. Currently appointed to the Management Board until September 10, 2026.

Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1965

Nationality:

German

Professional qualification:

PhD (Business Administration, University of Wuerzburg)

Professional career

Prior to her appointment to the Management Board of SUSS MicroTec SE, Dr. Cornelia Ballwießer was most recently a member of the Executive Board and CFO of PWO AG, a mobility industry company listed in the Deutsche Boerse’s Prime Standard segment. There, between November 2020 and June 2023, she was responsible for finance, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, purchasing, IT, legal, compliance, and corporate governance. She served in various management roles in the automotive supply industry starting in 2001. She was responsible for controlling, accounting and corporate planning throughout the Group at LEONI AG, most recently as Senior Vice President for Corporate Planning and Corporate Accounting, before moving to the position of Managing Director and CFO at Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH. Ballwießer began her career at VIAG AG in Munich in 1995 and took charge of its corporate accounting activities in 1998. She studied business administration at Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet of Wuerzburg, where she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Auditing and Consulting and completed her academic career with a doctorate in 1996.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

Member of the Management Board since July 1, 2023. Currently appointed to the Management Board until June 30, 2026.

Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1966

Nationality:

German

Professional qualification:

Ph.D. (Physics, University of Stuttgart), MBA (Universities of Augsburg/Pittsburgh)

Professional career

Before his Ph.D. as Dr. Ing. at the University of Stuttgart in 2001, Thomas Rohe (born 1966) studied Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 2009 and 2010 he completed an MBA course at the Universities of Augsburg and Pittsburgh (USA). Thomas Rohe began his professional career in 1994 at the Fraunhofer Institute ICT. In 2001, he joined the industry at Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, where he was initially responsible for developing wafer scanner optics as a product manager. In 2005, he became head of the LIT-TM Technology Mechatronics department. From 2007 to 2014, he also worked for companies of the Carl Zeiss Group as Business Unit Manager and, most recently, as Senior Director of Operations in the Electron Microscopy Business Unit. He then assumed the position of Executive Board member and COO of Prueftechnik Dieter Busch AG, which was sold to the American Fortive Group and its subsidiary Fluke, respectively, in July 2019. Thomas Rohe has a high level of understanding of technology and manufacturing and relevant industry experience.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

Member of the Management Board since May 1, 2021. Currently appointed to the Management Board until April 30, 2027.

Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1958

Place of Birth:

Finedon, UK

Nationality:

British and German

Professional qualification:

PhD (Physics, Oxford University, UK)

Current position:

self employed management consultant

Member of the following committees

Personal-/ and Nomination Committee (Chairman)

Audit Committee

Professional career

For more than 30 years, Dr. Dean has successfully worked at the executive level with global technology companies on their strategy and business development. After Master's and Doctoral degrees in physics and theoretical nuclear physics, he started his academic career before moving to the Boston Consulting Group in 1985. Between 1994 and 2013, Dr. Dean was a partner (from 2002 as Senior Partner) in the Technology & Telecoms Practice of The Boston Consulting Group and held worldwide responsibility for this business between 2000 and 2006; between 2006 and 2013, he was active as senior partner. Since 2014, he has acted as an independent management consultant and member of various international supervisory bodies, and he regularly deals with the financial matters of the respective companies. These include accounting issues, risk management, annual and consolidated financial statements and corresponding discussions with the auditors.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: Axiata Group Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (stock listed), Member of the Board of Directors, also a member of Audit Committee and Chairman of Risk & Compliance Committee

Member and Chairman of the Supervisory Board since May 20, 2020. Elected until the AGM 2026.

Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1968

Place of Birth:

Monschau, Germany

Nationality:

German

Professional qualification:

PhD (Business Administration, University Duisburg-Essen)

Current position:

self employed management consultant

Member of the following committees

ESG Committee (Chairwoman)

Personal-/ and Nomination Committee

Professional career

Dr. Myriam Jahn brings her diverse technical, sales, and M&A experience to the Supervisory Board of SUSS MicroTec SE: An academic business graduate and M.Sc. in electrical engineering with a doctorate in business informatics, and she began her career in 1994 as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf. For 14 years, she worked for the ifm Group, a leading sensor technology company and thus a customer of the semiconductor industry. Most recently, Dr. Jahn was a member of the executive board of TiSC AG here and was responsible for the sales division. After two years at q.beyond AG, an IT company specializing in digitization for medium-sized businesses, Dr. Jahn headed the Possehl Group's digitization business unit (Possehl Digital GmbH) as Managing Director and CEO until the end of 2023.

Further mandates

AUMA Riester GmbH & Co. KG, Müllheim (member of the Advisory Board)

PVA TePla AG, Wettenberg (member of the Supervisory Board)

Member of the Supervisory Board and Vice Chairwoman since May 20, 2017. Elected until the AGM 2026.

Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1962

Place of Birth:

Hanau, Germany

Nationality:

German

Professional qualification:

PhD (Physics, Technical University of Darmstadt)

Current position:

self employed management consultant

Member of the following committees

Audit Committee

Professional career

Dr. Bernd Schulte was a member of the Management Board of AIXTRON SE in Herzogenrath until March 2021. Since 2017 he has been responsible for research and development, procurement, investor relations and communication, corporate governance, environment, social and governance, compliance, and risk management. He started his academic career by studying physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1983. In 1993 he received his Ph.D. in Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. From 2002 to 2017, Dr. Schulte worked as COO in the AIXTRON Management Board. From October 2022 until September 2023, he worked as interim CEO at SUSS MicroTec SE before returning to the Supervisory Board as planned on September 11, 2023.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

Member of the Supervisory Board since November 6, 2020. Elected until the AGM 2026, interruption of Supervisory Board mandate from October 17, 2022, to September 10, 2023, as interim Management Board member for SUSS MicroTec.

Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1954

Place of Birth:

Schaesberg, Netherlands

Nationality:

Dutch

Professional qualification:

Master (Mechanical Engineering, Technical University Eindhoven, NL)

Current position:

self employed management consultant

Member of the following committees

Personal-/ and Nomination Committee

Audit Committee

ESG Committee

Professional career

A graduate mechanical engineer, he began his career in contract research at Eindhoven University of Technology (1980-1983). After a year as Technical Manager at Konings N.V., he moved to Philips Electronics. There he was responsible for designing, constructing, and installing various development and production facilities from 1983 to 1997. In 1997, he started working at ASML Holding N.V., holding various management positions for 22 years. From 2016 until his retirement in 2019, he served as Executive Vice President of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. Before that, Jan Smits was Head of the Business Unit "Deep UV" Lithography at ASML and responsible for EUV Sources.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: None

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

Member of the Supervisory Board since May 20, 2020. Elected until the AGM 2025.

Personal Data

Year of Birth:

1970

Place of Birth:

Minden, Germany

Nationality:

German

Professional qualification:

PhD, Tax Consultant, Certified Public Accountant, "Specialist Supervisory oard" Interfin Forum - Sustainability / ESG

Current position:

Professor for auditing and accounting at HAW (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) Hamburg

Member of the following committees

Audit Committee (Chairwoman)

ESG Committee

Professional career

Prof. Dr. Mirja Steinkamp is a tax consultant, certified public accountant, and auditing and corporate accounting professor at the HAW (University of Applied Sciences) in Hamburg. She worked as an audit manager at the international auditing company Ernst & Young GmbH for several years. Then she spent 14 years as an authorized signatory and manager at a global trading company. Since 2022, Mirja Steinkamp has been a lecturer at Interfin Forum GmbH, which offers the courses “Qualified Member of the Supervisory Board” and “Member of the Audit Committee/Financial Expert.”

Mirja Steinkamp has many years of experience as Chairwoman of the Audit Committee and Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Boards of listed and unlisted companies. As an auditor, tax consultant and Chairwoman of the Audit Committee, she has particular knowledge and experience in the application of accounting principles in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB), the German Income Tax Act (EStG) and IFRS, the audit of internal control and risk management systems (including compliance management system), and the audit of sustainability reporting.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany:

Basler AG, Ahrensburg, Member of the Supervisory Board (Chairwoman of the Audit Committee)

BarthHaas GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg, Member of the Supervisory Board (Vice Chairwoman; Chairwoman of the Audit Committee)

Hochtief AG, Essen, Member of the Supervisory Board (Member of the Audit Committee)

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

Member of the Supervisory Board since March 10, 2022. Elected until the AGM 2026.