Andrea Abt

Andrea Abt is focused on an international portfolio of non-executive and supervisory board positions since 2014. She has served on audit, remuneration, ethics and compliance, and nomination committees of company boards in a wide range of industries from packaging in the pharma industry through distribution in the building sector and infrastructure financing to oil and gas services, mining, and manufacturing. She previously served almost 30 years in international management and leadership roles in a wide variety of challenging environments in the Daimler Benz and Siemens groups: building organizations, consolidating, turning them around in the areas of transportation (rail and aerospace), logistics, IT, and more traditional manufacturing businesses. Her background includes leading teams in sales, services, as Chief Financial Officer and most recently, Chief Procurement Officer and Head of Supply Chain Management of global organizations ranging up to 9 billion € purchasing volume and 2,000 employees.

Currently, she also serves as Non-executive Director of Polymetal International plc (member of remuneration and audit & risk committee), Non-executive director John Laing Group plc (chair of the remuneration committee, member of nomination committee), Non-executive director of Petrofac Ltd (member of nomination, remuneration, and compliance & ethics committee), as well as a supervisory board member of Gerresheimer AG (member of the audit committee).

Andrea Abt graduated from the University of Bonn in 1985 with a degree comparable to an M.A. in Language and Literature. She holds an MBA from Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto in 2000.