Supervisory Board
Stefan Zuschke (Chairman of the supervisory board)Stefan Zuschke joined the supervisory board on March 3, 2010. He joined BC Partners in 1993 from Equimark, a Munich based buy-out firm, where he worked for three years on several German buy-outs and monitored investments. Previously he worked for the management consulting firm of Cresap Telesis, spent two years with Mercedes-Benz in Germany and Spain and completed a two-year commercial banking programme at the Landesgirokasse in Stuttgart. He has a degree in business administration from the Fachhochschule Reutlingen and the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid.
Edgar Fluri
Edgar Fluri joined the supervisory board on March 28, 2010. He spent his professional career with PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland where he was a Partner, Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Management Committee and from 1998 to 2008 Chairman of the Board of Directors. He was also a member of the Global Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Since 2008 he has been active as business advisor and besides Brenntag AG now holds mandates as a member of the boards of directors of Nobel Biocare Holding AG (Zurich) and Orior AG (Zurich). He has been a part-time lecturer in public accounting and auditing at the University of Basel since 1987 and was appointed titular professor in 1997. He is a Swiss Certified Public Accountant and has a doctorate in economics and business administration from the University of Basel.
Dr. Thomas Ludwig (Deputy Chairman of the supervisory board)
Dr. Thomas Ludwig joined the supervisory board on March 28, 2010. He joined Lindsay Goldberg Vogel GmbH in January 2010 from Kloeckner & Co SE, a German M-Dax company, where he worked for six years as CEO of the company. Previously he worked for ThysssenKrupp in the distribution and services division for eights years, last position as CEO of ThyssenKrupp Serv AG. Before he spent ten years in different divisions of Kloeckner & Co SE and five 5 years in the steel division of Kloeckner Werke AG. He went to the universities Göttingen, Freiburg, Glasgow and Bonn and has a degree in Mathematics and a doctorate in business administration from the University Bonn.
Doreen Nowotne
Doreen Nowotne joined the supervisory board on March 3, 2010. She joined BC Partners in 2002 from UBS Capital, where she spent over two years in the German private equity team. Prior to this, she spent three years with Arthur Andersen in Munich, leading teams for annual audits as well as for financial due diligence investigations. She has a degree in business administration from the University of Applied Sciences Dresden and participated in the Programme for Executive Development at IMD Lausanne in 2001.
Dr. Andreas Rittstieg
Dr. Andreas Rittstieg joined the supervisory board on March 28, 2010. He is a founding partner of RITTSTIEG Rechtsanwälte, a corporate law boutique focussing on M&A transactions which was established in 2000. Previously he was partner of the law firm Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber (today: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer). He studied law at the universities of Bochum, Geneva and Bonn and practised as visiting attorney with reputable law firms in Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Thomas Weinmann
Thomas Weinmann joined the supervisory board on March 3, 2010. He joined BC Partners in 2000 from Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Frankfurt where he spent three years in the Structured Finance Group concentrating on acquisition financing for financial investors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He was previously at Deutsche Bank in Munich and Sydney and undertook a two year apprenticeship with a regional bank in Bavaria. He has a degree in economics and business administration from the University of Passau.
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