Dr. Andreas Reichel
Chairman of the Board of Management
Born 1961
Andreas Reichel has been Labor Director and member of the Management Board of STEAG GmbH since August 2020 and its Chairman since January 2022, as well as Chairman of the Management Board of STEAG Power GmbH since December 1, 2022, and of Iqony GmbH since January 2023.
Previously, Andreas Reichel had been Executive Labor Director of E.ON Deutschland since 2018 and held this position in personal union with his work as a member of the Board of Management and Labor Director of E.ON edis AG, now E.DIS AG, which he had held since 2006. After studying law in Bonn, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1994 and became a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament in 1985. During his ten years as a member of parliament, Andreas Reichel was a member of various committees and became Secretary General of the North Rhine-Westphalia FDP in 1992. From 1995 to 2006, he was responsible for communications at the former Ruhrkohle AG and Ruhrgas AG.
Dieter Dehlke
Member of the Board of Management
Born 1965
Dieter Dehlke joined the management board of STEAG GmbH in January 2024.
After studying economics, he gained his first professional experience in investor relations at the Preussag Group in Hanover in the early 1990s, and ultimately took on the role of treasurer for the North American business. He gained further professional experience in positions at Siemens in Munich, Babcock Borsig in Oberhausen, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel, MAN Ferrostaal in Essen and the GEA Group in Bochum. Dieter Dehlke also worked at the Hamburg shipyard Blohm+Voss and the Dutch shipbuilder Damen before joining the HWP-Handwerkspartner Group in Hamburg as CFO in January 2022.
Nicole Hildebrand
Board Member
Born 1981
Nicole Hildebrand joined the management boards of STEAG GmbH, STEAG Power GmbH and Iqony GmbH in January 2024.
A political science graduate and fully qualified lawyer, she is a partner at STEAG’s owner Asterion Industrial Partners (AIP), where she is responsible for the energy business. She has worked for the Spanish infrastructure fund since it was founded in 2018. As an acknowledged energy expert, she has a total of 16 years of transaction experience in the European energy and utilities sector. Before joining AIP, Nicole Hildebrand worked for ten years in energy trading at Morgan Stanley in London and New York. She started her career at the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Frankfurt. Nicole Hildebrand holds an MBA from the Saïd Business School at Oxford University.
Dr. Ralf Schiele
Board Member
Born 1966
Ralf Schiele has been a member of the Management Board of STEAG GmbH since October 2020 and a member of the Management Board of STEAG Power GmbH since December 1, 2022 and of Iqony GmbH since January 2023.
With a doctorate in mechanical engineering, he started his career in 1999 at STEAG encotec GmbH as a project manager. At the end of 2000, he moved to the then 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 took over the position of Head of Sales and Marketing at STEAG KETEK IT GmbH and in 2008 moved to Evonik Industries AG to join the Group Development and Portfolio Management department. In May 2011, Ralf Schiele joined STEAG Energy Services GmbH as a member of the management board, and from July 2011 to May 2021 he held the post of chairman of the management board.