As of December 31, 2024, the Supervisory Board of PCC SE comprised the following three members:
Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert
Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert (65) has been Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE since 2021.
Dr. Ritzert was previously associated with the PCC Group as a consultant. A chemist by profession,
he has also served as Managing Director of Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH and Head of the Evonik China organization, among other senior roles. In addition to his consultancy work for chemical companies and private equity firms, he holds various mandates outside PCC SE, for example as a member of the Supervisory Board of R.hm GmbH, a member of the Board of Directors of Locus Fermentation Solutions and
as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polyvantis GmbH.
Ulrike Warnecke
Ulrike Warnecke (62) has been a member of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE since July 1, 2024,
and is also Vice Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of PCC Consumer Products S.A. She has
held management positions at PCC since the company was founded in 1993. As a member of
the Executive Board of PCC SE (August 31, 2021 to June 30, 2024) and previously in the role of
Managing Director (2007 to 2021), she was responsible for Finance, Human Resources and
Public Relations. Her operational responsibilities included in particular the Group’s commodity
trading business and she held a range of managerial positions in that domain.
Waldemar Preussner
Utilizing his many years of experience in Eastern Europe to harness the opportunities arising there as a result of market liberalization, Waldemar Preussner (66) established in 1993 Petro Carbo Chem Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft mbH (today: PCC Trade & Services GmbH), a company that remains at the core of the PCC Group. 1998 then saw the carve-out of the holding company PCC AG, and in 2007 its corporate form was changed to that of a European company (Societas
Europaea or SE). Waldemar Preussner is the sole shareholder of PCC SE and continues to serve as
Chairman of its Supervisory Board. He also holds a number of supervisory board mandates within
the PCC Group, in particular at PCC Exol SA (Chair) and at PCC Rokita SA.
