Executive Board1
Alfred Stern, *1965
Date of initial appointment: April 1, 2021
End of the current period of tenure: August 31, 2024
Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer, Executive Board member for the Chemicals & Materials division
On September 1, 2021, Alfred Stern became Chairman of the Executive Board of OMV Aktiengesellschaft, having already served as Executive Board member for Chemicals & Materials since April 1, 2021. He took over management of the Company five months after his appointment as Executive Board member for the newly established Chemicals & Materials division. Before that, he had served as CEO of Borealis since July 2018. He had been an Executive Board member for the preceding six years as well, with responsibility for the areas of Polyolefins and Innovation & Technology. His career at Borealis began in 2008 as Senior Vice President Innovation & Technology. Prior to joining Borealis, Alfred Stern was at DuPont de Nemours and held various management positions in R&D, Sales & Marketing, and Quality & Business Management in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. Alfred Stern has a PhD in Material Science and a Masters in Polymer Engineering and Science, both from Montanuniversität in Leoben (Austria).
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OMV Petrom S.A. |
President of the Supervisory Board (since September 1, 2021) |
Borealis AG |
Chairman of the Executive Board (until April 1, 2021) |
OMV Downstream GmbH |
Managing Director (since April 1, 2021) |
Rainer Seele, *1960
Date of initial appointment: July 1, 2015
Rainer Seele resigned from his position as Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer as of August 31, 2021.
Rainer Seele received his PhD in chemistry at the University of Göttingen and subsequently held senior appointments at the BASF Group, where he first became a member of the Executive Board in 2000. He was subsequently Chairman of the Executive Board at WINGAS GmbH. From 2009 until 2015, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wintershall Holding GmbH.
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OMV Petrom S.A. |
President of the Supervisory Board (until August 31, 2021) |
Borealis AG |
Chairman of the Supervisory Board (until August 31, 2021) |
Johann Pleininger, *1962
Date of initial appointment: September 1, 2015
End of the current period of tenure: August 31, 2023
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board and Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Executive Board member for the Exploration & Production division
Johann Pleininger started his professional career at OMV in 1977 and later studied mechanical and economic engineering. During his time at OMV, he held various senior positions. From 2007 to 2013, he was an Executive Board member at OMV Petrom in Bucharest, responsible for Exploration & Production. Prior to his appointment as Executive Board member of OMV, he was the Senior Vice President responsible for the core Upstream countries Romania and Austria as well as for the development of the Black Sea region.
Member of the Supervisory Board of FK Austria Wien AG
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OMV Petrom S.A. |
Member of the Supervisory Board |
OJSC Severneftegazprom |
Member of Board of Directors |
SapuraOMV Upstream Sdn. Bhd. |
Deputy Chairman of Board of Directors |
OMV Exploration & Production GmbH |
Managing Director |
OMV Austria Exploration & Production GmbH |
Chairman of the Supervisory Board |
Reinhard Florey, *1965
Date of initial appointment: July 1, 2016
End of the current period of tenure: June 30, 2024
Chief Financial Officer
Reinhard Florey graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and economics from Graz University of Technology while also completing his music studies at the University of Fine Arts. He started his career in corporate consulting and strategy consulting. From 2002 to 2012, he worked in various positions worldwide for Thyssen Krupp AG. Until June 2016, he was CFO and Deputy CEO of Outokumpu Oyj.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Wiener Börse AG
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OMV Petrom S.A. |
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board (until April 28, 2021) |
Borealis AG |
Member of the Supervisory Board |
Elena Skvortsova, *1970
Date of initial appointment: June 15, 2020
End of the current period of tenure: June 14, 2023
Executive Board member for the Marketing & Trading division. From April 1, 2021 until June 30, 2021 she was Executive Board Member for the Refining division on an interim basis.
Elena Skvortsova studied at Moscow State Linguistic University and the Thunderbird School of Global Management in the United States. In 1994, she began her professional career at Bayer AG as an international management trainee; her last position at Bayer was Associate Director of Bayer Corporation (Healthcare). Starting in 2001, Elena Skvortsova held various leadership positions at Baxter International in the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, and the United Kingdom. Her tenure there lasted 13 years. In 2015, she moved to Linde AG and was responsible for managing the Middle East and Eastern Europe region. From March 2019 to April 2020, following the merger of Linde and Praxair, she was head of Praxair Canada Inc., a 100% subsidiary of Linde plc.
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OMV Petrom S.A. |
Member of the Supervisory Board (since April 28, 2021) |
OMV Downstream GmbH |
Managing Director |
Martijn van Koten, *1970
Date of initial appointment: July 1, 2021
End of the current period of tenure: June 30, 2024
Executive Board member for the Refining division
Martijn van Koten was born in the Netherlands, where he studied Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He began his professional career at Shell in 1994, taking on several management and technical positions in the refining and downstream business in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. Starting 2004, Martijn van Koten held manufacturing site general manager positions at Shell in Sweden and Singapore, before becoming Vice President Manufacturing East & Middle East in Singapore in 2009 and Vice President Supply & Distribution Americas in the United States in 2013. In 2013, Martijn van Koten joined Borealis as Executive Board Member Operations, HSE & PTS, in Austria. From 2018 to June 2021, he was Borealis’ Executive Board Member Base Chemicals & Operations in Austria.
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OMV Petrom S.A. |
Member of the Supervisory Board (since August 1, 2021) |
Borealis AG |
Member of the Executive Board (until June 30, 2021) |
OMV Downstream GmbH |
Managing Director (since July 1, 2021) |
OMV Gas Logistics Holding GmbH |
Managing Director (since July 14, 2021) |
Thomas Gangl, *1971
Date of initial appointment: July 1, 2019
Thomas Gangl resigned as member of the Executive Board responsible for the Refining & Petrochemical Operations division as of March 31, 2021.
Thomas Gangl began his OMV career in 1998 as a process engineer at the Schwechat refinery after studying process engineering at Vienna University of Technology and mechanical engineering at the University of Salford (Manchester). In 2011, he became General Manager of OMV Deutschland GmbH and Site Manager in Burghausen. He was appointed Site Manager in Schwechat in 2014 and took over the role of Senior Vice President of the Refining & Petrochemicals Business Unit with responsibility for all three OMV refineries in 2016. On April 1, 2021, Thomas Gangl became the Chairman of the Executive Board of Borealis AG.
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OMV Petrom S.A. |
Member of the Supervisory Board (until April 28, 2021) |
Borealis AG |
Member of the Supervisory Board (until April 1, 2021) |
OMV Downstream GmbH |
Managing Director (until March 31, 2021) |
OMV Gas Logistics Holding GmbH |
Managing Director (until March 31, 2021) |
Working practices of the Executive Board
The approval requirements, responsibilities of individual Executive Board members, decision-making procedures, and the approach to conflicts of interest are governed by the Internal Rules of the Executive Board. The Executive Board holds meetings at least every two weeks to exchange information and issue decisions on all matters requiring plenary approval.
1 The Supervisory Board of OMV Aktiengesellschaft has approved a reorganization of the OMV Group involving splitting and expanding the current area of Refining & Petrochemical Operations into two areas: Refining, on the one hand, and Chemicals & Materials, on the other hand. The changes took effect as of April 1, 2021.