Team

has been CEO of Haniel since July 2019. He was appointed to the Management Board in 2017 and was also CEO of Haniel's portfolio company CWS until mid-2019. The engineering graduate began his career in 1996 with various positions at the US group General Electric (GE). Schmidt subsequently moved to TE Connectivity in mid-2008 and became President of TE Industrial in July 2010. Thomas Schmidt is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of TAKKT AG, member of the advisory board of the non-profit organization ForTomorrow and volunteers on the board of the AllBright Foundation.

has been CFO of Haniel since September 2011. Florian Funck, who holds a PhD in business administration, began his career at the Haniel Holding Company in 1999. In June 2004, he was appointed to the TAKKT Managing Board in Stuttgart, where he was responsible for Controlling and Finance. Florian Funck is a member of the Supervisory Boards of CECONOMY AG, TAKKT AG and Vonovia SE.

has been an Investment Partner and member of the Investment Committee of Haniel since June 2020. She leads the Investment Team together with Thessa von Hülsen and is responsible for portfolio management. After completing a banking apprenticeship and studying economics, Marion Oswald began her career at private equity investor Advent International in 1999. In 2016, she moved to The Cranemere Group, an Anglo-Saxon investment holding company with a long-term focus, for which she last served as managing director until joining Haniel.

has been Chief People & Strategy Officer and a member of the Investment Committee of Haniel since April 2022. After studying electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich and completing an industrial doctorate at Volkswagen, Katharina Peterwerth joined McKinsey in 2008 – focusing on strategy consulting, organizational development and product development. At the end of 2018, she returned to Wolfsburg, where she headed organizational development for the VW Group for almost four years. Katharina Peterwerth is a mother of three and is, among other things, involved in the mentoring program of the TU Munich by alumni for students.

has been Investment Partner and a member of the Investment Committee of Haniel since March 2022. She leads the Investment Team together with Marion Oswald and is responsible for portfolio management. Thessa von Hülsen, who graduated in economics, previously was Head of HR Strategy at Deutsche Börse Group and, directly before joining Haniel, led the planned IPO of a private equity held company in Munich. From 2010 to 2017, she worked for UniCredit Bank AG, last heading the corporate banking executive staff. Prior to her career in banking, Thessa spent over eight years in private equity at Silverfleet Capital, a London-based mid-cap fund. She specialized in automotive suppliers, building on 4,5 years of experience in strategy consulting.

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Joined in 2022

Previously: Volkswagen Group, McKinsey & Company

Technical University of Munich

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Joined in 2023

Previously: Axel Springer SE, Roland Berger, Carl Zeiss AG

HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management, University of Victoria, University of Santa Barbara, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University 

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Joined in 2021

Previously: JP|KOM GmbH, University of Oxford, Carlsberg Deutschland, Gruner+Jahr

University of Oxford, Universität Hamburg