A new CEO for SGL Carbon SE

With effect from January 1, 2025 and a term of three years, Andreas Klein becomes CEO of SGL Carbon SE, the board of management of SGL Carbon, manufacturer of carbon solutions. He takes over from the former CEO Torsten Derr who will not extend his management contract, which expires in May 2025 and will leave the company on December 31, 2024.

As a result to the announcement of the former CEO, the supervisory board strengthened the board of management by extending it to three members. The new CEO will sit on the board of management next to Thomas Dippold, CFO, whose contract was extended by another five years. Stephan Bühler, general counsel and chief compliance officer at SGL Carbon SE, has also been appointed to the board for a term of two years.

Andreas Klein is currently head of Graphite Solutions, SGL Carbon’s largest business unit, since October 2023. To bring the Board of Management even closer to SGL Carbon’s operations, he will remain CEO and head of the Graphite Solutions division.

“We are very pleased that we were able to win Andreas Klein, an experienced manager, for the position of CEO. He is very familiar with SGL Carbon’s key markets and has gained deep insights into the company’s structures and business units over the last 15 months,” said Frank Richter, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SGL Carbon SE. ”With the contract extension of CFO Thomas Dippold and the appointment of Dr. Stephan Bühler as an additional member of the Board of Management, we ensure continuity and stability for SGL Carbon’s further strategic direction. On behalf of the entire Supervisory Board, I wish the new Board of Management great success. We would like to express our particular gratitude to Torsten Derr for his achievements at SGL Carbon. In recent years, he has returned SGL Carbon to a path of profitable growth and set an important strategic course.”

Andreas Klein holds a degree in Business Administration and started his professional career at Bayer and Lanxess, where he held various management positions. Thomas Dippold, who holds a degree in Business Administration, has been Chief Financial Officer of SGL Carbon since October 2020. He began his professional career at HSBC Bank in London and Dusseldorf. Thomas Dippold has successfully accompanied the restructuring of SGL Carbon of recent years.

Stephan Bühler has been with SGL Carbon for more than 10 years and is responsible for Legal, Compliance and Corporate Audit. He was already a member of the Board of Management of SGL Carbon from October 2019 to October 2020. He holds a doctorate in law and began his career at the Bundesverband der Deutschen Banken (Association of German Banks) in Cologne before spending 21 years at Siemens in various functions in the legal department.

Heading photo: SGL Carbon – Thomas Dippold, Andreas Klein, Stephan Bühler