OMV Aktiengesellschaft appointed Rainer Seele as the new Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of the company.
Rainer Seele has accepted the appointment and will assume the position effective July 1, 2015 for a three-year period, with an extension option for OMV for further two years, the company informed in a statement.
The current Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO Gerhard Roiss will resign from his position on June 30, 2015.
Rainer Seele has long-term experience in the international oil and gas industry. He has been at the helm of Wintershall Holding in Kassel since October 2009. After his studies at the University of Göttingen, where he obtained a doctorate in chemistry, Seele joined BASF in Ludwigshafen, initially to conduct chemical research.
After working in a number of different functions between 1987 and 1994, Seele was appointed Head of Research Planning and Control at BASF’s Main Laboratory in 1994. In 1996 he became Head of Strategic Planning at Wintershall in Kassel, and in 2000 he transferred to its subsidiary WINGAS, where he became Managing Director with responsibility for sales. As Chairman of WINGAS from 2002, he was, above all, responsible for alerting the public to the significance of cooperation with Russia for Europe’s gas supplies. In 2002, Seele was also appointed to the Wintershall Board of Executive Directors with responsibility for Natural Gas Trading. He became Chairman of the Wintershall Board in 2009.
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