Speaker

DR. ANDREAS NITZE JOINED THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF BERLINER GLAS KGaA Herbert Kubatz GmbH & Co IN 1994. HE IS RESPONSIBLAE FOR THE REORIENTATION OF THE CORPORATE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE AT GROUP LEVEL. IN 2019, HE INITIATED THE M&A PROCESS TO SELL THE BERLINER GLAS GROUP TO ASML N.V.   Dr. Andreas Nitze was born in 1964 in Frankfurt am Main. After completing a banking apprenticeship, he studied and received his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen.   Dr. Nitze started his career at BERLINER GLAS KGaA in 1991 as Assistant to the Executive Board, of which he became a member in 1994. In 1998, Dr. Nitze was appointed Managing Director, where he further developed BERLINER GLAS activities with a focus on the Photonics business unit. Following a series of management positions at BERLINER GLAS he became Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of the group in 2002. In this position, he is primarily responsible for the realignment of the corporate organization and management structure at Group level. Since ASML, one of the world's leading manufacturers of microchip fabrication equipment, acquired BERLINER GLAS in 2020, Dr. Nitze has acted as ASML's Country Manager for Germany.