PCC SE: Change on Executive Board of PCC SE: CFO Riccardo Koppe to succeed Ulrike Warnecke

Duisburg (pta019/27.06.2024/11:50) - PCC SE is set to continue the process of generational succession in Group management with a change on the Executive Board. Ulrike Warnecke (62), who has held senior managerial positions within the PCC Group since the parent company was founded in 1993, is to step down from the Executive Board for personal reasons and will now take a seat on the organization's Supervisory Board. As her successor, Riccardo Koppe (44) will take her place on the Executive Board effective July 1, 2024. Mr. Koppe came to PCC SE in 2008 as a member of Group Controlling, proceeding to take over this accounting division in 2012. He has been Chief Financial Officer of PCC SE since 2020. He will retain his position as CFO while assuming from Ms. Warnecke lead responsibility on the Executive Board for Financial Affairs, Public Relations, Human Resources and Internal Organization. Also effective July 1, Ms. Warnecke will succeed Reinhard Quint (81) on the Supervisory Board of PCC SE, with the latter departing for reasons of age.

From July 1, 2024, the new Executive Board of PCC SE will thus comprise Dr. Peter Wenzel (Chairman and CEO), Dr. Alfred Pelzer and Riccardo Koppe. The members of the Supervisory Board will be company founder and sole shareholder Waldemar Preussner (Chairman), Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert (Vice Chairman) and Ulrike Warnecke.

The Supervisory Board and the Executive Board colleagues of PCC SE would like to thank Ulrike Warnecke for her dedicated commitment and congratulate her on her many achievements in management. Supervisory Board Chairman Waldemar Preussner comments: "Ulrike Warnecke deserves great recognition for the way she has helped shape the PCC Group with her unique drive: as an executive manager and Managing Director in the founding years, as a subsequent member of the Executive Board and in various leadership positions at our Group companies. I now look forward to working with her on the Supervisory Board. At the same time, we are confident that we have found her perfect successor in the form of our long-standing Chief Financial Officer Riccardo Koppe and that, with him, the generational change in our Group management will successfully continue."

About PCC SE

Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, PCC SE is the parent and investment holding company of the globally active PCC Group with around 3,300 employees. Its Group companies have core competencies in the production of chemical feed stocks and specialty chemicals, silicon and silicon derivatives, and in container logistics. An investor committed to the longer term, PCC SE concentrates on continuously increasing the enterprise value of its portfolio companies through sustainable investments and the ongoing creation of new value. The largest chemical producers of the PCC Group are PCC Rokita SA, a major chlorine manufacturer and Eastern Europe's leading producer of polyols, and PCC Exol SA, one of Europe's most advanced surfactant manufacturers. PCC BakkiSilicon hf. operates in Iceland one of the world's most advanced and climate-friendly silicon production facilities. PCC was founded in 1993 by Waldemar Preussner, sole shareholder of PCC SE, who today holds the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board. The PCC Group generated consolidated sales of € 994 million and earnings before interest/financial result, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of some € 112 million in fiscal 2023, with capital expenditures in the same year amounting to € 142 million. For further information on PCC, go to: https://www.pcc.eu ( https://www.pcc.eu/en/ ).

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