Executive Board and Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Chairman of the Executive Board of PCC SE
Dr. Peter Wenzel (61) has held senior management positions at PCC since 2003. He has been Chairman of the Management Board of PCC SE since 2021 and is primarily responsible on the Management Board for corporate and project development and the issue of sustainability, which is increasingly becoming the 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 and of the Malaysian affiliate PCG PCC Oxyalkylates Sdn. Bhd.
Executive Board Member
Dr. rer. oec. (BY) Alfred Pelzer (66) has held management positions at PCC since 1995. As a member of the Management Board of PCC SE since 2021 and previously as Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Board (2007 to 2021), he is primarily responsible for the operational areas of Chemical Production, Logistics and Sales. He holds several mandates within the PCC Group, including at PCC Rokita SA (Chairman), PCC Exol SA, PCC MCAA Sp. z o.o., PCC Synteza S.A. (Chairman), PCC Intermodal SA (Chairman) and PCC Autochem Sp. z o.o. (Chairman), and as Managing Director of PCC Thorion GmbH.
Executive Board Member
Riccardo Koppe (46) joined PCC in 2008 in Group Controlling, which he took over in 2012. He has been Chief Financial Officer of PCC SE since 2020 and a member of the Management Board of PCC SE as Chief Financial Officer / CFO since 2024. As CFO, he is primarily responsible for finance and also for human resources, public relations and internal organization. He also holds several other mandates within the PCC Group, as Managing Director of PCC Intermodal GmbH, as a member of the Supervisory Board of PCC Energetyka Blachownia Sp. z o.o. and as a member of the Board of Directors of PCC GulfChem Corporation.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Waldemar Preussner (67) founds Petro Carbo Chem Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft mbH (now PCC Trade & Services GmbH) in 1993 in order to utilize his many years of experience in Eastern Europe to exploit the new opportunities arising in the markets opening up there. This is the nucleus of today’s PCC Group. The holding company PCC AG is spun off in 1998 and transformed into a European Company 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, in particular at PCC Exol SA (Chairman) and PCC Rokita SA.
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Dr. Hans-Josef Ritzert (67) has served as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE since 2021. Prior to this, Dr. Ritzert was already associated with the PCC Group as a consultant. He holds a doctorate in chemistry and has served, among other roles, as Managing Director of Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH and headed the China operations of Evonik Industries AG. Outside of PCC SE, in addition to his consulting work for chemical companies and private equity firms, he holds various positions, including as a member of the Supervisory Board of Röhm GmbH, a member of the Board of Directors of Locus Fermentation Solutions, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Polyvantis GmbH.
Member of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE
Ulrike Warnecke (64) has been a member of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE since 2024 and is also Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of PCC Consumer Products S.A. She has held management positions at PCC since the company was founded in 1993. As a member of the Management Board of PCC SE (2021 to 2024), she was responsible for Finance, Human Resources and Public Relations, as she was previously as Managing Director (2007 to 2021). Her operational responsibilities included in particular the Group’s trading business, the founding business of PCC, and she held several management positions.