Ines Kolmsee

Ms. Ines Kolmsee has been the Chief Executive Officer Services & Solutions since October 2017. Ms. Ines Kolmsee has a deep industry experience (Steel and Energy) which she gained when holding various international leadership roles. Throughout her career she occupied various roles at top management level in the areas of Finance and Technology and worked as CEO. Between 2004 and 2014, Ms. Ines Kolmsee was CEO of SKW Stahl Metallurgie, a global supplier of chemical products for the steel industry. Ines Kolmsee was then CTO and Member of the Board of EWE AG, one of the largest utility companies in Germany with more than 9,000 employees and sales of 7.6 billion Euro in 2016.

Ms. Ines Kolmsee holds an MBA (INSEAD), a Master Degree in Process and Energy Engineering (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) and a degree in Industrial Engineering (Ingenieur Civile des Mines, Ecole des Mines, St Etienne, France). She is also co-founder of the technology startup Smart Hydropower and has successfully built up the company as a Board member. She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Umicore since 2011 and of Suez since 2014. Ms. Kolmsee is a citizen of Germany.