Supervisory Board
Since the Annual Shareholders Meeting on May 21, 2008, the QSC Supervisory Board has comprised four shareholder representatives and two employee representatives. At the suggestion of its former Chairman, John C. Baker, the newly formed Supervisory Board elected the Supervisory Board Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Annual Shareholders Meetings of long years' standing, Herbert Brenke, as its Chairman.
| Supervisory Board | |
|---|---|
| Herbert Brenke Chairman |
An independent telecommunications consultant, he has been a member of the QSC Supervisory Board since its IPO. In the 1990s he had built mobile communications provider E-Plus, and was in charge of its business from 1993 to 1998. Prior to that, he had been in charge of Thyssen Rheinstahl Technik and had been a member of the management board at Thyssen Handelsunion since 1983. |
| John C. Baker Vice Chairman |
Since 2000, the founder and general partner of the Baker Capital Group, a private equity fund based in the U.S., has represented QSC's largest shareholder on the Supervisory Board. A Harvard graduate, he has been active in the private equity industry for more than 25 years, and had already invested in QSC prior to its initial public offering in 1999. |
| Gerd Eickers | After three years on the Management Board, the second QSC co-founder returned to the Supervisory Board in June 2004. Since February 2005, this postgraduate economist has additionally been serving as the president of VATM, the premier telecommunications industry association in Germany. |
| David Ruberg | This postgraduate information technology professional has been the CEO of Netherlands-based InterXion, a leading European provider of data centers and managed services, since November 2007. A native of the United States, he has been a member of the QSC Supervisory Board since 2000. |
| Klaus-Theo Ernst Employee Representative |
In May 2008, the workforce elected the Head of Project Management at network operating company Plusnet as one of its two representatives on the newly formed QSC Supervisory Board. Klaus-Theo Ernst has worked at QSC since early 2001. |
| Jörg Mügge Employee Representative |
In May 2008, the QSC workforce elected the Head of Processes and Projects at Plusnet as its second representative on the QSC Supervisory Board. Jörg Mügge has been employed at QSC since April 2002. |
Information on the remuneration of the Supervisory Board can be found here.
Mandate des Aufsichtsrats
Die folgende Übersicht erläutert die Mitarbeit der Mitglieder des Aufsichtsrats in anderen Gremien:
| Mandate des Aufsichtsrats |
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|---|---|---|
| John C. Baker | Chairman of Supervisory Board | InterXion Inc., Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands |
| Member of Supervisory Board | Verified Identity Pass Inc., New York, USA, until April 2010 | |
| Member of Supervisory Board | Vollaire Ltd., Ra'anana, Israel, until February 2011 | |
| Herbert Brenke | Chairman of Supervisory Board | ASKK Holding AG, Hamburg, Germany |
| Member of Supervisory Board | SHS VIVEON AG, Munich; Germany | |
| Gerd Eickers | Chairman of Supervisory Board | Contentteam AG, Cologne, Germany |
| Member of Supervisory Board | Amisco NV, Brüssel, Belgium | |
| David Ruberg | Vice Chairman of Supervisory Board | InterXion Inc., Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands, since January 2011 |
| Member of Board of Directors | Adaptix Inc., Dallas, USA, until October 2010 | |
| Member of Board of Directors | Broadview Networks Inc., New York, USA, until January 2011 | |
