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CANDIDATES for election to the SUPERVISORY BOARD

153rd Annual General Meeting

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ELECTIONS TO THE SUPERVISORY BOARD - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Succession Planning

• › Process started in 2021

• › Selection process accompanied by external consultants

• › Numerous meetings with candidates

• › Final set of candidates presented to nomination committee

• › Two selected candidates met with all Supervisory Board members

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These two candidates will be proposed for election to the Supervisory Board at the 153rd Annual General Meeting

Two candidates met all requirements - skills set of the Supervisory Board further enhanced

• › Independent

• › No overboarding

• › Extensive experience

  • › as CEOs of public listed companies

  • › Industry

  • › Transformation

  • › Digital change track record

ELECTIONS TO THE SUPERVISORY BOARD - CANDIDATE PROFILE

Thomas Birtel Germany | * 1954 Nationality: German

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CEO of STRABAG SE, Austria

› Chairman of the Supervisory Board of STRABAG AG, Germany

Independent according to understanding of the Austrian Corporate Governance Code

Professional career

1983-1989

Klöckner & Co., Germany

Last position held: Division Manager, Accounting/Business Administration, Non-German Markets, Klöckner Industrieanlagen GmbH

1989-1996

Frigoscandia, Sweden

Last position held: Chairman of the Management Board of Frigoscandia Holding GmbH, Duisburg; Member of the Group Management of Frigoscandia AB, Helsingborg (Sweden), for Central Europe region

Summary › Since 2006, Dr. Thomas Birtel has been a Member of the Managing Board of STRABAG SE, and since 2013 he has been CEO of STRABAG SE. Before that he was a Member of the Managing Boards of other companies of the STRABAG group.

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As Member of the Management Board and CEO, Dr. Thomas Birtel has driven both the internationalization and the strategic orientation of STRABAG SE into a financially strong European technology group for innovative construction services.

Current mandates

Membership of supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies of listed companies › None

Since Feb. 1996 1996 -2002 2002 -2013 Since 2014

Since 2006 2006 -2013 Since 2013

Education

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STRABAG AG, Germany

Member of the Management Board of STRABAG Hoch- & Ingenieurbau AG Member of the Management Board of STRABAG AG, Germany

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of STRABAG AG, Germany

STRABAG SE, Austria

Member of the Management Board CEO

Studied economics and legal science at Ruhr-University Bochum Diploma examination, certified as Diplom-Ökonom

› Research fellow/doctoral studies scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer

Foundation (studied tax law at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen) Doctorate in Economics (Dr. rer. oec.)

ELECTIONS TO THE SUPERVISORY BOARD - CANDIDATE PROFILE

Summary › From 2008 until 2021, Marc GRYNBERG was CEO of the global Belgium material technology and recycling group Umicore, after having held complex executive positions with Umicore from 1996.

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Current mandates

In his capacity of CEO, Marc GRYNBERG pursued a consistent growth strategy with a focus on sustainable value creation and developed Umicore into one of the internationally leading players in the fields of clean mobility and recycling and thus a pioneer in terms of sustainability.

1988-1989	Misui Bank, Belgium
Marc Grynberg
Last position held: Foreign exchange trader
Belgium | * 1965
Nationality: Belgium
1989-1996	DuPont de Nemours, Belgium/Italy
Independent
Various Management position in Brussels and Geneva
according to understanding of the Austrian Corporate Governance Code
1996-2021	Umicore NV/SA, Belgium
1996-2000	Group Controller
2000-2006	CFO
2006-2008	EVP, Automotive Catalysts
2008-2021	CEO
Education

Membership of supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies of listed companies

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Nexans SA, France - Supervisory Board Director

› Umicore NV/SA, Belgium Supervisory Board Director (as of 2023)

Professional career

› Commercial Engineer (Wirtschaftsingenieur) from the Solvay Brussels School of

Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles)