Werner Brandt (born January 3, 1954 in Herne) is a German manager.

Education

Brandt studied business administration at the

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

from 1976 to 1981, and received his doctorate from the TU Darmstadt in 1991.

Career

He started his professional career at

PriceWaterhouse PricewaterhouseCoopers is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting ...

in Stuttgart, where he was employed from 1981 to 1992. He then served as a member of the executive board of Baxter Deutschland GmbH for seven years before becoming

CFO The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financ ...

and labor director of Fresenius Medical Care AG, where he served for two years. From February 2001 to 30 June 2014, he was CFO of

SAP AG Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant. Sap is distinct from latex, resin, or cell sap; it is ...

. In September 2009, he succeeded his former

SAP Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant. Sap is distinct from latex, resin, or cell sap; it is a separ ...

board colleague, Claus E. Heinrich, as a member of the board of the association “Zukunft Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar”(Future Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar) (ZMRN e.V.). Brandt is a member of the supervisory boards of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Qiagen N.V. On 27 February 2013,

RWE AG RWE AG is a German multinational energy company headquartered in Essen. It generates and trades electricity in Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States. The company is Europe's most climate threatening Company, the world's number two in offs ...

announced that the supervisory board decideded to propose Brandt for election to the supervisory board at the upcoming annual general meeting. Since 26 June 2014, he has been Chairman of the supervisory board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG and, since the conversion in 2016, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE. Brandt was also a member and chairman of the supervisory board of

innogy SE Innogy SE was an energy company based in Essen, Germany. It is now merged and integrated into German energy company E.ON. History The company was created on 1 April 2016, by splitting the renewable, network and retail businesses of RWE into ...

, but resigned due to personal reasons effective as of 31 December 2017. On 18 November 2014, a press release from the IFRS Foundation announced that it would be acting as a member of the advisory board, beginning January 1, 2015.

Industrial positions

At a conference on the future of employee ownership, which took place in Frankfurt am Main in November 2013, Brandt criticized, that the existing tax allowances in Germany, with only 360 Euro, are too low in international comparison. He pleaded for the British model with allowances that would equal around 3,500 Euro. Brandt predicted that without a change in the tax environment in Germany the size of employee ownership would not increase, which is currently less than 1% for many companies.

Further affiliations

He is member of the board of the association "Zukunft Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandt, Werner 1954 births Living people People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Businesspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia SAP SE people Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni Technische Universität Darmstadt faculty ProSiebenSat.1 Media Fellows of the American Physical Society