SUSS MICROTEC - Key Persons


Dr. Bernd Schulte - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Managing Board
Dr. Bernd Schulte was a member of the Management Board of AIXTRON SE in Herzogenrath until March 2021. Since 2017 he had been responsible for the areas of research and development, procurement, investor relations and communication, corporate governance, environment, social and governance as well as compliance and risk management. He started his academic career by studying physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1983, where he graduated in 1989. In 1993 he received his Ph.D. in Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Before moving to AIXTRON, he worked as a research assistant for Hoechst AG in the early 1990s. His professional positions at AIXTRON include, for example, project and product management for the Asia-Pacific region and a management position in the compound semiconductor equipment division. From 2002 to 2017, Dr. Schulte worked as COO in the companyʼs Management Board. He is not a member of statutory supervisory boards or other domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises.

Dr. David Robert Dean

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SÜSS MicroTec SE
For more than 30 years, Dr. Dean has successfully worked at the executive level with global technology companies on their strategy and business development. After Masters and Doctoral degrees in physics and theoretical nuclear physics, he started his career in academia before moving to the Boston Consulting Group in 1985. Between 1994 and 2013, Dr. Dean was a partner (from 2002 as Senior Partner) in the Technology & Telecoms Practice of The Boston Consulting Group and held worldwide responsibility for this business between 2000 and 2006.

Dr. Myriam Jahn

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board
Dr. Myriam Jahn held various management and business consulting positions. After two years as Member of the Executive Board of q.beyond AG (previously known as QSC AG), she is now CEO of the digitization subsidiary of Possehl Group, Lübeck. From 2016 to 2018, Dr. Jahn was Member of the Management Board of TiSC AG, a subsidiary of the ifm-group in Essen where she had held various positions in sales and administration from 2003 to 2015. With an academic background in Business Administration (master's degree at Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz, 1993, and dissertation and Ph.D. at University in Duisburg-Essen, 2003) Dr. Myriam Jahn also worked from 1999 to 2002 at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mittelstandsberatung (DGM) and from 1994 to 1998 as a consultant for Boston Consulting Group in Dusseldorf. In the Supervisory Board of SUSS MicroTec Dr. Myriam Jahn is focused on the fields of digitalization and industry 4.0.

Dr. Thomas Rohe - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Managing Board
Before his Ph.D. as Dr. Ing. at the University of Stuttgart in 2001, Thomas Rohe (born 1966, German citizen) studied Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 2009 and 2010 he completed an MBA course at the Universities of Augsburg and Pittsburgh (USA). Thomas Rohe began his professional career in 1994 at the Fraunhofer Institute ICT. In 2001, he joined the industry at Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, where he was initially responsible for the development of wafer scanner optics as a product manager. In 2005, he became head of the LIT-TM Technology Mechatronics department. From 2007 to 2014, he also worked for companies of the Carl Zeiss Group as Business Unit Manager and, most recently, as Senior Director of Operations in the Electron Microscopy Business Unit. He then assumed the position of Executive Board member and COO of Prueftechnik Dieter Busch AG, which was sold to the American Fortive Group and its subsidiary Fluke, respectively, in July 2019. Thomas Rohe has a high level of understanding of technology and manufacturing, as well as relevant industry experience. He is not a member of statutory supervisory boards or other domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises.

Franka Schielke

Job Titles:
  • Manager Investor Relations

Jan Smits

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board
Jan Smits has held various management positions in established technology companies in the semiconductor industry, most recently at ASML Holding in the Netherlands where he worked for a total of around 22 years. From 2016 until 2019 he was Executive Vice President of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. Until 2019, Mr. Smits held the positions of Director of ASML Netherlands and Member of the Executive Committee of ASML Holding in addition to heading the Strategic Purchasing Division. Prior to that, Mr. Smits was Head of the Lithography Business Unit "Deep UV" at ASML and responsible for EUV sources. From 1983 until 1997 Jan Smits worked at Philips Electronics and was responsible for planning, construction, and equipment of various development and production sites, most recently as Program Director Equipment and Infrastructure MOS4 of Philips Semiconductor Inc. Jan Smits holds a master degree as mechanical engineer at the Technical University Einhoven, Netherlands. He works part time as COO of Bambi Medical, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He was elected Member of Supervisory Board at SÜSS MicroTec SE in May 2020.

Oliver Albrecht - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Member of the Managing Board
  • CFO of SUSS MicroTec SE
Oliver Albrecht (born 1964, German citizen) is CFO of SUSS MicroTec SE since November 18, 2019. He studied business administration at the University of Mannheim and at the Institut Commercial de Nancy after an apprenticeship as a banker. 1992 to 2003, he worked in the finance and banking sector as Director of Investment Banking and Corporate Finance. Between 2003 and 2019, he held various commercial positions at executive level: Head of Finance at Peri GmbH in Weißenhorn, Chief Financial Officer at centrotherm photovoltaics AG in Blaubeuren, Chief Financial Officer at SHW AG in Aalen, Managing Director of Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co KG in Ravensburg. He is not a member of statutory supervisory boards or other domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises.

Prof. Dr. Mirja Steinkamp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board
  • Tax Consultant, Auditor and Professor of Auditing and Corporate Accounting at the NORDAKADEMIE University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr. Mirja Steinkamp is a tax consultant, auditor and professor of auditing and corporate accounting at the NORDAKADEMIE University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg/Elmshorn. She worked for several years as an audit manager at the international auditing company Ernst & Young GmbH and then spent 14 years as an authorized signatory and manager at a global trading company. During this time, she successfully introduced a management reporting system twice and was responsible for financial accounting at the German location, group accounting in accordance with IFRS and reporting to debt capital providers. Mirja Steinkamp has many years of experience as Chairwoman of the Audit Committee and as Vice Chairwoman of the Supervisory Boards of listed and unlisted companies. As an auditor, tax consultant and Chairwoman of the Audit Committee, she has particular knowledge and experience in the application of accounting principles in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB), the German Income Tax Act (EStG) and IFRS, the audit of internal control and risk management systems (including compliance management system), and the audit of sustainability reporting. In 2019, Mirja Steinkamp was appointed to the Examination Board for Auditors for a period of five years. Since 2022, Mirja Steinkamp has been a lecturer at Interfin Forum GmbH, which offers the courses "Qualified Member of the Supervisory Board" and "Member of the Audit Committee/ Financial Expert".

Sven Köpsel

Job Titles:
  • Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications