The decision makers for the difference

“By joining Consileon, I am continuing my commitment to sustainability and supporting a company that is doing valuable work in this area.”

Dr. h.c. Petra Roth was three times directly elected mayor of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1995 to 2012. During her time in office, she performed the duties of President of the German Association of Cities for a total of nine years and was a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.

Petra Roth, who has been a member of the CDU since 1972, was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1987 to 1995. Since 1977, she has been a city councilor in Frankfurt am Main, including a term as head of the city council.

Today, Petra Roth holds positions in various scientific, cultural and other charitable institutions in Germany and abroad. Petra Roth holds an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University and an honorary doctorate from Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul. She is the recipient of numerous other domestic and foreign honors and awards, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Borggreve is a member of, among others, Atlantik-Brücke, the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and the Frankfurt Society for Trade, Industry and Science.

After holding positions at Commerzbank and Paribas, Hendrik Borggreve became a founding board member of Bankhaus Lehmann Brothers AG in 1986. When Kleinwort Benson GmbH was founded in Frankfurt in 1991, the fully qualified lawyer took over as managing director. At the same time, he was a member of the management board of Kleinwort Benson plc in London.

From January 1996, Borggreve was Spokesman of the Board of the German subsidiary of the investment bank Salomon Brothers. In 2001, he joined the Management Board of ABN AMRO Germany, and in 2008 he moved to its Supervisory Board and was appointed to the senior advisor body of Royal Bank of Scotland, a legal successor to ABN AMRO.

Borggreve is a member of, among others, Atlantik-Brücke, the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, the Frankfurt Society for Trade, Industry and Science, and the sponsoring associations of the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals.

Jürgen Chrobog works in Berlin as an economic and political consultant. He writes for national newspapers on the situation in the Middle East, among other things.

Chrobog studied law in Freiburg, Aix-en-Provence and Göttingen.

After two years as a lawyer in Hanover, he worked for a total of 33 years at the German Foreign Office – as press spokesman, chief of staff, head of the Political Department and, most recently, as State Secretary with responsibility for foreign economic policy, Third World affairs and the United Nations.

Chrobog’s foreign assignments took him to the United Nations in New York, to Singapore as economic advisor and to the German EU representation in Brussels. During German reunification, he advised then Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. From 1995 to 2001, he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States, and until 2013 he was also Chairman of the Board of the BMW Foundation.

Klaus von Dohnanyi has been a member of Consileon’s advisory board since January 2015. From 1981 to 1988, von Dohnanyi, who holds a doctorate in law, was the First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Before that, he was Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, Federal Minister of Education and Science, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Science, and State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economics, Karl Schiller.

After leaving politics, von Dohnanyi devoted himself to the reconstruction of the East, among other things, as a special representative of the Treuhandanstalt. To this day, he chairs the supervisory board of an East German company. From 2009 to 2014, von Dohnanyi chaired the Minimum Wage Commission of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. In 2011, the German government appointed him to the ethics commission on the issue of nuclear phase-out.

As Managing Partner, von Dohnanyi had been involved in the expansion of the Infratest market research and consulting institute from 1960 to 1968. During his tenure in Hamburg City Hall, he founded the Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted. Von Dohnanyi has published several books and numerous articles. He is active in other associations and foundations, as a consultant and mediator.

Jan Pieter Krahnen will join Consileon as a new Advisory Board member on 1 January 2024. Krahnen was Professor of Banking and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt until 2022 and founding director of the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, with which he is now associated as a Senior Fellow. Krahnen heads the Research Policy Network ‘European Financial Architecture’, CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), Paris-London.

In his research and policy advice, Krahnen focuses on questions of financial architecture and the design of governance models, including the regulation of banks and capital markets as well as the design of incentive and information systems in companies.

After the 2008 financial crisis, he was a member of the Issing Commission on the reform of international financial markets and in 2012 a member of the Liikanen Commission, an expert group of the European Commission on structural reforms in the European banking sector. Krahnen is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and was a member of the Group of Economic Experts of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) until 2016.

Dr. Jürgen Schwiezer headed the Diagnostics Division of the Roche Group from January 2008 to December 2009. With a doctorate in chemistry, he began his career in market research at Boehringer Mannheim.

From 1989 to 1990, he was responsible for the company’s entire German sales force, then for the Laboratory Systems sales division.

In 1994, Schwiezer became head of German sales and a member of the management board, which he chaired the following year. Boehringer Mannheim was sold to the Roche pharmaceutical group in 1997 and has since traded as Roche Diagnostics GmbH. As its deputy chairman, Schwiezer joined the management team of Roche Deutschland Holding in 1998, where he was responsible for the diagnostics business in the EMEA sales region (Europe, Middle East, Africa).

In 2000, Schwiezer moved to the helm of Roche Diagnostics GmbH. In addition to the EMEA region, he assumed responsibility for diagnostics sales in Latin America in 2007.

Herbert Wörner has worked since 2001 as an external partner for the management consultancy Monitor (Boston) and Euro Asia Consulting, based in Munich, Shanghai, and Mumbai.

Wörner has sat on the supervisory boards of DAX-listed companies and currently holds mandates with the logistics group RLG and its subsidiary CCR. He is also a shareholder in RLG.

Wörner studied business administration in Würzburg, London, and Mannheim and holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Mannheim. After working for several years in a management position in the sales department of BASF in Ludwigshafen, he became Chairman of the Board of Management of a medium-sized company in the metal industry in 1972.

At the end of 1977, Wörner moved to the central planning and control department at Bosch in Stuttgart. From 1978 to 1980, he was commercial director of the Junkers division, and then chairman of the board of Bosch’s Austrian subsidiary until 1985.

Back in Stuttgart, Wörner headed the group’s central sales department until 1987, when he became chairman of the board of management of BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte. There he was ultimately responsible for 37,000 employees and sales of 12.3 billion D-Mark.