THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE - Key Persons


Akin Kalac


Alexander Skowronek

Job Titles:
  • Brand & Marketing Communications

Alexandra Nolte

Job Titles:
  • Head of Order Management Industry

Alina Zander

Job Titles:
  • Team Assistance Head of Sales

Anatol Frantzen

Job Titles:
  • Head of COM Strategy, Brand & Marketing Communications

Andrea Crespi

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales East

André Matusczyk

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Board

Andrés Morales

Job Titles:
  • Agent
  • Agent Colombia

Angélique Stopin

Job Titles:
  • Technical Consultant
  • Head of Procurement Isbergues

Anja Buitelaar

Job Titles:
  • Order Management Industry

Anja Schwall


Anja Turowsky

Job Titles:
  • Purchaser

Antonio Guilherme Dias

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Arnoldo Ferrer


Arta Vardi


Athar Shah

Job Titles:
  • Agent
  • Agent Pakistan

AZ Fullpower


Babu Poojari

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Manager Sales
  • Manager Sales

Barbara Timm

Job Titles:
  • Head of Technical Customer Support

Benjamin Voigt

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager
  • Senior Key Account Manager

Bernhard Osburg - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Overview Executive Board
Born 1968. Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Board since October 1, 2021 // German Bernhard Osburg has been Chief Executive Officer of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG since October 1, 2021. His responsibilities include Strategy & Corporate Development and Innovation. Prior to this he was Chairman of the Executive Board of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG since March 1, 2020. He was appointed member of the Executive Board of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG in June 2019 with responsibility, among other things, for Sales and Supply Chain Management.

Bianca Bartel

Job Titles:
  • Order Management Industry

Bushan Yeola

Job Titles:
  • Head of Local Procurement & Supply Management Nashik
  • Head of Procurement Nashik

Carmen Tschage

Job Titles:
  • General Management
  • Head of Communications and Market Development
  • Spokesperson

Chairat Prasertlum

Job Titles:
  • Agent / Thelfer ( 2015 ) Limited

Charlie S. Chang

Job Titles:
  • Agent South Korea

Charmaine Heiermann

Job Titles:
  • Head of Order Management Planning

Christian Renner

Job Titles:
  • Head of Special Products

Christian Walter

Job Titles:
  • Head of Key Account Management Automotive

Christian Weers

Job Titles:
  • Communications

Christina Aumann

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Citizenship

Christine Launert

Job Titles:
  • Press Spokesperson

Christine Sireix


Christoph Netthöfel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Key Account Manager

CHRO Markus

Job Titles:
  • CHRO

Clarissa Odewald

Job Titles:
  • General Management
  • Head of Sales Overseas

Claudia Drüppel-Fink

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Public & Media Relations

Claudia Posmyk


Dang Hei

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Denise Gubler

Job Titles:
  • Deputy

Dennis Japinski


Dirk Sievers

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources and Social Affairs

Dr. Arnd Köfler - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Overview Executive Board
Born 1967. Chief Technology Officer since May 1, 2022 // German Dr. Arnd Köfler has been a member of the Executive Board of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG since 2017. Since May 1, 2022, he has been Chief Technologie Officer responsible for a newly formed integrated transformation directorate. It comprises all activities associated with the decarbonization of the steel production, research and development, as well as the implementation of the optimization of the production network adopted as part of the Strategy 20-30. Dr. Arnd Köfler began his career in the hot metal department at Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM) in 1994. He held various other positions at HKM until 2013, including that of head of burden preparation, head of continuous rounds casting, head of quality and order management and head of crude steel production. He began working for thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG as head of steel production in 2013, and in January 2016 took over as head of rolling and coating at the Beeckerwerth site. Dr. Arnd Köfler, born 1967, studied mechanical engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum before gaining a PhD in metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University in 1999.

Dr. Beate Bannemann


Dr. Heike Denecke-Arnold - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer
  • COO
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Overview Executive Board
Born 1970. Chief Operations Officer since May 1, 2022 // German Dr. Heike Denecke-Arnold joined the Executive Board of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG on May 1, 2022, and is responsible for sales, sales steering, production planning and for production operations from upstream operations down to the finishing stages, as well as quality and logistics.

Dr. Heiner Schäfgen

Job Titles:
  • General Manager

Dr. Henner Diederichs - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales

Dr. Jan Janssen

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Executive Board, Thyssenkrupp Hohenllimburg GmbH

Dr. Markus Weber

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Technology

Dr. Matthias Schick

Job Titles:
  • Technical Consultant

Dr. Michael Pullen

Job Titles:
  • Finance

Dr. Peter Biele

Job Titles:
  • Sales and Chairman of the Executive Board

Dustin Siepmann


Emmanoel Lima

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Erika Mink-Zaghloul

Job Titles:
  • Governmental Affairs

Esther Gähwiler


Farid Naggiar

Job Titles:
  • Agent
  • Agent Lebanon

Frank Bosch

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager NO ( Eastern Europe )

Friedrich Hövelmann

Job Titles:
  • Head of Production Planning

Gabriele Schneider


Georgios Giovanakis

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Board
  • Sales

Gerrit Riemer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Governmental Affairs Germany and Head of Representative Office Berlin

Henning Heine

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Herbert List

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing / Logistics

Jacques Moillet

Job Titles:
  • Technical Consultant

Janette Berenhäuser


Jens Beckmann

Job Titles:
  • Head of Order Management Automotive

Jens Schöllnershans - Chief Procurement Officer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Procurement
  • Head of Global Procurement & Supply Management
  • Head of Local Procurement & Supply Management Gelsenkirchen

Jessica Koll

Job Titles:
  • Recruiting
  • Student Internships

Jochen Homberg


Jochen Lohscheidt


Jochen Zenz

Job Titles:
  • Head of Raw Materials Procurement and Warehouse Management

Jörg Paffrath

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales Industry

Jörg Walther


Jürgen Bracht

Job Titles:
  • Sales Management

Kapil Kapoor

Job Titles:
  • Technical Consultant

Katja Sülberg


Kent Huang

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Kevin Kern


Klaus Roos - Chief Procurement Officer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Procurement
  • General Management

Kristina Keller

Job Titles:
  • Order Management Industry

Leif Peters

Job Titles:
  • Senior Key Account Manager

Liesa Döpper

Job Titles:
  • Expert Technical Customer Support

Linda Hollatz

Job Titles:
  • Order Management Industry

Loredana Roccasalva


Lutz Thannhäuser


Lysanne Mohr


Magdalena Voigt


Marc Steinborn

Job Titles:
  • Head of Material Supply Management
  • Head of Supply Management

Marc-Julien Gelhaus

Job Titles:
  • Purchaser

Marcel Hilgers

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales, Communications / Market Intelligence

Marcus van Marwick

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communication

Marina Knorr

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager

Marita Knappertsbusch


Mark Stagge

Job Titles:
  • Head of Public & Media Relations

Markus Grolms

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Overview Executive Board
  • Chief Human Resources Officer ( CHRO )
  • Markus Grolms - Chief Human Resources Officer ( CHRO )
Markus Grolms has been Labor Director and CHRO of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG since April 2020. Prior to that he was Executive Committee Secretary at the IG Metall trade union and Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG.

Markus Zobel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Human Resources & Social Affairs / Member of the Executive Board

Martin Berendt

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager

Martin Prette-Stegemann

Job Titles:
  • Expert Technical Customer Support

Martina Burandt


Martina Langen

Job Titles:
  • Recruiting

Matthias Gruß

Job Titles:
  • Senior Expert Technical Customer Support

Matthias Ihme


Matthias Trommer

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager

Meric Akgün

Job Titles:
  • Marketing and Guided Plant Tours

Michael Lukas


Michael Schmidtz

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager NO ( Central Europe, NAFTA / USA )

Michael Weidner

Job Titles:
  • Local Procurement Construction, Investment and Services
  • Purchaser

Michele li Bergolis

Job Titles:
  • Head of Key Account Management Industry

Miguel Valdivia

Job Titles:
  • Export Sales Manager

Mounir Takla Nasr

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Mustapha Laouti

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Nikhil Sali

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Manager Sales
  • Manager Sales

Niklas Bruderreck

Job Titles:
  • Business Development and Marketing

Nina Hagemann

Job Titles:
  • Order Management Industry

Oliver Hoffmann

Job Titles:
  • Technology

Oliver Pellin

Job Titles:
  • General Management
  • Head of Transportation Management

Pascal Wellhäußer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales West ( Among Other Regions / Countries Responsible for NAFTA / USA )

Pat Strydom

Job Titles:
  • Agent South Africa

Peter Manthey

Job Titles:
  • Head of Department Application Systems

Philipp Conze - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Board
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Overview Executive Board
  • Markus Grolms - Chief Human Resources Officer ( CHRO )
Philipp Conze has been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG since March 1, 2024. Most recently he was CFO of the globally operating Rothe Erde Group (formerly thyssenkrupp Segment Bearings) from 2020 to 2024. He has also been the CFO of thyssenkrupp rothe erde Germany GmbH since 2021. Philipp Conze joined the thyssenkrupp Group in 2012 and has held several leading positions in the field of controlling. From 2016 to the end of 2019 he assumed overall responsibility for the Group's Controlling and Financial Accounting function. Philipp Conze was born in 1975. During his career as an officer in the German Army (Bundeswehr) from 1994 to 2006, he studied economics and organizational sciences in Munich from 1997 to 2001. After attaining a degree in business administration, he completed a part-time Executive MBA program in England in 2005. After holding various management positions in the Bundeswehr, Philipp Conze switched to management consulting in 2006, where he focused on finance and controlling in large companies and corporate groups in a wide variety of industries. Born 1975. Chief Financial Officer since March 1, 2024 // German Born 1971. Labor Director and und CHRO since April 1, 2020 // German

Ranjeet Singh

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Manager Sales
  • Manager Sales

Rebekka Fankhauser


Reyhan Yilmaz

Job Titles:
  • Order Management Industry

Roopam Mishra

Job Titles:
  • Manager Sales

Roswitha Becker

Job Titles:
  • Press Spokesperson

Rüdiger Koshorst

Job Titles:
  • Technical Consultant

Sabine Sell


Samiye Ayse Colakoglu

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager

Sandra Baehr

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to Marcel Hilgers, Head of Sales, Communications / Market Intelligence

Sandra Reus

Job Titles:
  • Head of Climate Policy

Sara Cordón Ruiz

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager

Simon Leiß

Job Titles:
  • Head of Investment, Services and Material Procurement

Simon Stephan

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales Automotive

Simone Birkholz

Job Titles:
  • Communications

Sonja Lang-Reimann

Job Titles:
  • Key Accounting

Stefan Cassel


Stefan Gerlach

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • Manager
  • General Management

Stefan Langer

Job Titles:
  • Purchaser

Stefan Thomas


Stefanie Reiterer


Steffen Schmid

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Contact for Sales Enquiries

Susana Holguin Riofrio

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Tanja Laven


Taoufik BEN

Job Titles:
  • Agent Algeria

Thomas Brohl

Job Titles:
  • Key Accounting, Great Britain
  • Sales Management

Thomas Denkel

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales Europe

Thomas Koch


Thomas Sube

Job Titles:
  • Key Account Manager NO ( Western Europe, Scandinavia and Asia )

Udo Houben

Job Titles:
  • Senior Expert Technical Customer Support

Urs Steiger - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Usama Darwiche

Job Titles:
  • Senior Key Account Manager

Vaibhav Sinare

Job Titles:
  • Manager Sales

Vanessa Meckeler


Vanessa Sadrija


Vanessa Stockhausen

Job Titles:
  • Key Accounting, France

Viktoria Altenweg


Vincenzo Panfili

Job Titles:
  • Strategy Procurement Construction, Investments and Services

Vivek Garg

Job Titles:
  • General Manager Sales & Marketing
  • Manager Sales & Marketing

Volker Kamen - VP of Sales

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales

Zeljko Knezevic

Job Titles:
  • Agent