Executive Board and Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Executive Board of PCC SE
Dr. Peter Wenzel
Chairman of the Executive Board of PCC SE
Chairman of the Executive Board of PCC SE
Dr. Peter Wenzel (60) has been working in senior
positions at PCC since 2003. He has been the
Chairman of the Executive Board of PCC SE since August 31, 2021,
and is primarily responsible for
corporate and project development
as well as sustainability, which is increasingly
becoming a strategic focus of the PCC Group.
He also holds several other
mandates within the PCC Group, for example
as a member of the Board of Directors of the
US companies PCC Chemicals Corporation
and PCC GulfChem Corporation as well as at the
Icelandic and Malaysian
subsidiaries PCC BakkiSilicon hf. (Chairman) and
PCG PCC Oxyalkylates Sdn. Bhd.
Dr. rer. oec. (BY) Alfred Pelzer
Executive Board Member
Executive Board Member
Dr. rer. oec. (BY) Alfred Pelzer (65) has been
in management positions at PCC since
1995. As a member of the Executive Board of PCC SE
since August 31, 2021, he continues to be
primarily responsible for the operational
areas of chemical production, PCC’s main revenue generator,
as well as logistics and sales, as he was previously
as Managing Director and Deputy
Chairman of the Administrative Board (2007 to 2021).
He holds several mandates within the PCC Group,
including at the production companies
PCC Rokita SA (Chairman), PCC Exol SA,
PCC MCAA Sp. z o.o. and PCC Synteza S.A.
(Chairman), at PCC IT S.A. (Chairman) as well as at
the logistics companies PCC Intermodal SA
(Chairman) and PCC Autochem Sp. z o.o. (Chairman).
Riccardo Koppe
Executive Board Member
Executive Board Member
Riccardo Koppe (45) started at PCC in
Group Controlling in 2008, taking over its management in 2012.
He has been Chief Financial Officer of
PCC SE since 2020. Since July 1, 2024, as a
member of the Executive Board of PCC SE, in addition to his position
as CFO, he is primarily responsible for the areas of
finance, public relations, and human resources.
He also holds several other mandates in
the PCC Group, for example as Managing Director
of PCC Intermodal GmbH and
as a member of the Supervisory Board of PCC Energetyka
Blachownia Sp. z o.o. and member of the Board of
Directors of PCC GulfChem Corporation and
PCC BakkiSilicon hf.
Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Waldemar Preussner
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Waldemar Preussner (66) founded Petro
Carbo Chem Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft mbH
(now PCC Trade & Services GmbH) in 1993 to utilize
his long-standing experience in Eastern Europe
to take advantage of the new opportunities in the opening
markets there. This is the nucleus of
today’s PCC Group. The holding company PCC AG was
spun off in 1998 and converted into a European
stock corporation (SE) in 2007. Waldemar
Preussner is the sole shareholder and Chairman of the
Supervisory Board of PCC SE. He also holds several
other supervisory board mandates within the PCC Group,
particularly at PCC Exol SA
(Chairman) and PCC Rokita SA.
Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert (65) has been Deputy
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE since 2021.
Previously, Dr. Ritzert was already associated with the PCC Group
as a consultant. He is a chemist and has been,
among other roles, Managing Director of Evonik
Nutrition & Care GmbH and Head of Evonik’s
China organization. Outside of
PCC SE, in addition to his consulting activities for chemical companies
and private equity firms, he holds various
mandates, such as member
of the Supervisory Board of Röhm GmbH, member of the
Board of Directors of Locus Fermentation
Solutions, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board
of Polyvantis GmbH.
Ulrike Warnecke
Member of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Member of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Ulrike Warnecke (62) has been a member of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE since July 1, 2024
and is also Deputy Chairwoman
of the Supervisory Board of PCC Consumer Products S.A. She has been in management positions
at PCC since the company’s founding
in 1993. As
a member of the Executive Board of PCC SE (August 31, 2021
to June 30, 2024) and previously as Managing
Director (2007 to 2021), she was responsible for
finance, human resources, and public relations.
Her operational responsibilities
included, in particular, the Group’s trading business,
and she held several management positions.
