METALLO - Key Persons


Angela Seidler

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Investor Relations & Corporate Communications

Bert Coletti

Job Titles:
  • R & D & Engineering Director

Caroline Bogaerts - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Financial Director
  • Strategic IT Projects Director

Christian Ehrentraut

Job Titles:
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Employees

Christoph Tesch

Job Titles:
  • Head of Corporate Communications

Daniel Mrosek

Job Titles:
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Employees
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Employees / Process Engineer

Deniz Filiz Acar

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board Representing the Employees
  • Member of the Supervisory Board Representing the Employees / Instructor for Commercial Trainees / Deputy Head of Training in HR Training Department, Hamburg
  • Personnel / Remuneration Committee
The Personnel/Remuneration Committee is responsible for preparing the appointment of Executive Board members as well as for representing the company to the members of the Executive Board. It handles all personnel matters of the Executive Board members, including approving the acceptance of mandates with other companies. It also concerns itself with the achievement of goals by Executive Board members, prepares the review of the compensation system for the Executive Board, and, in the process, handles the setting of goals for variable compensation.

Dr. Dirk Vandenberghe - Managing Director, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Senior VP
  • Senior VP Managing Director & Director

Dr. Elke Lossin

Job Titles:
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Employees
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Employees / Operations Manager at the Analytical Laboratory at Aurubis AG, Hamburg

Dr. Sandra Reich

Job Titles:
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Shareholders
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Shareholders / Independent Business Consultant for Sustainable Finance

Dr. Stephan Krümmer - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Audit Committee ( Chairman )
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Nomination Committee
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Shareholders

Elke Brinkmann

Job Titles:
  • Head of Investor Relations

Ferdinand von Oertzen

Job Titles:
  • Specialist Investor Relations

Gunnar Groebler - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Nomination Committee
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Shareholders

Hilde Wuyts

Job Titles:
  • Accountmanager Raw Materials MMR ( Multi Metal Recycling )

Inge Hofkens - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Director
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Chief Financial Officer / Inge Hofkens / Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling
  • Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling
  • Chief Transformation Officer / Inge Hofkens / Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling
  • COO Multimetal Recycling, Member )
After Inge Hofkens earned her master's degree in applied economics in Antwerp, she started as a scrap purchaser at Metallo in 1993, not knowing that her heart would soon beat for the metals industry. In the meantime, Inge Hofkens is an expert in secondary materials. In her first ten years in Beerse, she occupied different positions on the purchasing, processing and trading side of the recycling business. Afterwards, she moved to sales and hedging metal price risk and from there gradually grew into the areas of marketing and communication, business development and business strategy. After nearly 30 years as an experienced management executive at Metallo, she took on the position of Managing Director at Aurubis Olen in 2021. As Member of the Executive Committee Metallo Group, she was closely involved in the sale of the Metallo Group to the German Aurubis Group and subsequently in the integration of the Metallo sites within Aurubis. Inge Hofkens was appointed to the Aurubis AG Executive Board as Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling effective January 1, 2023.

Ingrid Waghemans

Job Titles:
  • HR & Communications Director Aurubis Olen & Aurubis Beerse

Jan Koltze

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chairman
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Employees

Karel Docker

Job Titles:
  • HSE & Sustainability Director

Karl Guns

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Engineering

Kathrin Dahnke

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Nomination Committee
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Shareholders

Kevin De Vet

Job Titles:
  • Sampling Coordinator

Koen Wuyts - Chief Procurement Officer

Job Titles:
  • Procurement Director
*a.i. Engineering Beerse, Maintenance Beerse & IT Beerse, this during the temporary 'assignment to Richmond' of Dirk Wouters

Meino Hauschildt

Job Titles:
  • Manager Corporate Communications, Spokesperson

Prof. Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • Member of the Nomination Committee
  • Employee Side
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Shareholders

Prof. Dr. Markus Kramer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Chief Transformation Officer
  • Chief Transformation Officer / Inge Hofkens / Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling
  • CTO Chief Transformation Officer, Member )
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Shareholders

Rainer Verhoeven - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • CFO, Member )
  • Chief Financial Officer / Inge Hofkens / Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling
After training in banking and studying business management in Dortmund and Amsterdam, Mr. Verhoeven started his career with what is now thyssenkrupp AG. Initially working at company headquarters in the areas of finance and accounting, Mr. Verhoeven took up various managerial posts in connection with the construction of a steel plant in Brazil starting in 2005. Mr. Verhoeven then worked for thyssenkrupp in the USA and in Brazil as Head of Controlling/Head of Finance before being appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Brazilian subsidiary in 2012. Before joining Aurubis, Mr. Verhoeven was Chief Financial Officer with thyssenkrupp Electrical Steel GmbH, a subsidiary of the thyssenkrupp corporation in the steel sector with a workforce of 1,800 in Germany, France and India. Mr. Verhoeven has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Aurubis AG with effect from January 1, 2018.

Roland Harings - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • CEO, Chairman )
  • Executive Board of Aurubis AG Consists of Four Members
Roland Harings studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen. After earning his engineering degree in 1989, he began his career at Webasto AG in Stockdorf, Germany, an international supplier of the automotive industry. After different responsibilities and international assignments in quality, development, and key account management at Webasto, he switched to Alcan, an aluminum producer and processor, in 1995. He initially managed the sales and purchasing department of the engine components division in Nuremberg and, starting in 1998, was responsible for developing the automotive division in the aluminum strip sector. Following the merger of Alcan with Alusuisse in 2002, Mr. Harings oversaw automotive sales for Alcan in Europe. From 2005 to 2010, he served as General Manager of the integrated aluminum rolling mill of Novelis in Sierre, Switzerland. As Vice President, Mr. Harings managed Novelis' global automotive business from 2010 to 2014. Prior to his appointment to the Aurubis Executive Board, Mr. Harings was CEO/Managing Director of MKM GmbH, a manufacturer of 280,000 tons of copper semi-finished products with about 1,200 employees in Hettstedt, Saxony-Anhalt (Germany). The company was extensively modernized in this period and was successfully sold to KME in 2018. Mr. Harings was appointed to the Executive Board of Aurubis AG effective May 20, 2019 and has served as Executive Board Chairman since July 1, 2019.

Silver Tin

Job Titles:
  • Lead

Stefan Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Supervisory Board Member Representing the Employees

Steffen Goossens

Job Titles:
  • Finance, Legal & IT Director

Steven Otten

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Operations Director Aurubis Olen

Steven Smets

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Operations Director Aurubis Beerse

Valerie Vandoninck

Job Titles:
  • Business Controller