Born 1965
Joachim Rumstadt has been Chairman of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH, formerly Evonik STEAG GmbH, since January 2009. He also represents the company in national associations and international institutions.

Prior to being appointed to the board in 2007, Rumstadt headed the Strategic Business Development department and was operationally responsible for the Power Division. In the course of his career, he also held posts as Head of the Executive Office and of the Risk Management Department. Before joining STEAG in 1997 as corporate counsel, Rumstadt was an advisor on international and European law at the research institute of the Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften (German University of Administrative Sciences) in Speyer. Prior to that, he completed his law degree at the University of Heidelberg and served for two years as a junior lawyer.

Born 1961
Since August 2020 Andreas Reichel has been a member of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH.

Previously, Dr. Reichel was acting Industrial Relations Director for E.ON Germany since 2018, a function which he exercised in addition to being a member of the Board and Industrial Relations Director of E.ON edis AG, today E.DIS Fürstenwalde, positions which he had held since 2006. After studying law in Bonn he received a doctor’s degree in 1994 from the University of Cologne. In 1985 he became a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. In his ten years as MP Dr. Reichel was member of various committees and became Secretary General of the North Rhine-Westphalian FDP in 1992. In the years 1995 to 2006 he was responsible for communications at the then Ruhrkohle AG and at Ruhrgas AG.

Born 1969
Since May 2020 Heiko Sanders has been a member of the Broad of Management of STEAG GmbH.

He holds a doctorate in business administration and tax consultancy and has many years of experience in the energy industry. Until September 2015, Sanders was Chief Financial Officer of the energy service provider EWE AG in Oldenburg, Lower Saxony. In April 2016, he founded two companies: Dr. Sanders Organisationsberatung with a focus on strategy development, mergers & acquisitions and Dr. Sanders Investments. Heiko Sanders can look back on a total of 15 years as an executive in various entrepreneurial positions.

Born 1966
Ralf Schiele has been a member of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH since October 2020.

Having obtained a doctorate in mechanical engineering, he joined STEAG encotec GmbH in 1999 as a project manager. At the end of 2000 he moved to the former STEAG AG as Project Manager IPP Project Development and was initially responsible for the Southeast Asia region and then for Europe. From mid-2004 to the beginning of 2008, he held the function of Head of Sales and Marketing at STEAG KETEK IT GmbH and in 2008 moved to the Corporate Development and Portfolio Management department of Evonik Industries AG. Sn May 2011, Dr. Schiele joined STEAG Energy Services GmbH (SES) as a member of the Management Board, and from July 2011 to May 2021 he held the post of Chairman of the Management Board.

Born 1967
Ralf Schmitz has been a member of the Board of Management of STEAG GmbH since Juli 2021.

Ralf Schmitz, born in 1967, has been a member of the Management Board since July 2021. An industrial engineering graduate and partner in the management consultancy Schmitz & Partner, he has been working successfully as a CEO or CRO in the restructuring of industrial companies for more than two decades. He also has proven experience in the development and expansion of new business areas and in negotiations with financiers.