She is primarily responsible for:

• International activities: Euroshareholders in Brussels, and European Corporate Governance Services (ECGS)
• Corporate Governance issues
• DSW’s participation in the legislation
• Speaking at Annual General Meetings such as Deutsche Telekom, Bayer, Metro and KarstadtQuelle

Jella Benner-Heinacher is also member of the Stock Exchange Board in Düsseldorf and member of the Take over Committee in Frankfurt. Besides she is member of the supervisory boards of TUI AG, Buderus AG, A.S. Creation AG, and the shareholders’committee of Aventis S.A..

Francois joined Infineon in 1999 to oversee the group's conversion to US GAAP and its initial public offering in New York and Frankfurt. He is primarily responsible for the group's US GAAP accounting and financial statements, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and external financial reporting. Prior to Infineon, he qualified as an accountant and worked at Deloitte & Touche in South Africa and New York.

She has several years of experience in designing and implementing share plans and has consulted German and non-German multinational companies in relation to the implementation of share plans. She is an expert in the accounting implications (IFRS, HGB and US GAAP) and the corporate tax optimisation of share plans.

When joining the auditing profession in 1997, Sven continued to work in auditing and consulting engagements for national and international clients. He is been engaged in various conversion projects from German GAAP to IFRS/ US GAAP, consults in national and SEC listings and is an expert in international accounting (IFRS and US GAAP).

He is also a qualified tax adviser (Steuerberater) and a lecturer on corporate taxation at Humboldt University in Berlin. Dr. Klaus Herkenroth qualified as an attorney-at-law in New York in 1987 and also as a German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) in 1988. He studied at the University of Michigan Law School (LLM, 1986) and at the Universities of Marburg and Giessen. He joined Ashursts as a partner in 1999. Klaus speaks German, English, Spanish and French.

Prior to this corporate assignment Otto Hotz headed Human Resources for several divisions within Unaxis. Previously he gained management experience in various sales, marketing and logistics positions in the engineering and electronics industry. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and business economics.

Prior to joining SAP, he was lecturer at the Institute of Financial Accounting of Saarbrücken University, where he took his doctor's degree after gaining degrees in business administration from Saarland University and Accountancy from the University of Dundee, Scotland. His research interests are primarily in the field of international financial accounting and reporting.

Dr. Hütten is member of the Financial Reporting Committee of Schmalenbach Gesellschaft and author of numerous articles on the subject of national and international financial reporting.

Ulli specialized in assisting companies in relation to capital markets and corporate issues and has extensive experience in designing and implementing employee incentive programs.

Dr. Gerhard Kantusch is Director Human Resources of RHI AG. Before he was head of personnel department of Tarbuk AG and from 1989 to 1993 head of personnel department of Philips Industrie GmbH.

After graduation as MA from the University of Zurich, Hans spent nine years working for Swiss Bank Corporation in various Global HR functions, including an international assignment to New York between 1991 and 1994. He joined Swiss Re in July 1996.

Jens has several years of experience in advising companies in the design and implementation of reward strategies and equity incentives. His specialization is in the alignment of incentives with business strategy and in the fine-tuning of HR-systems to implement business strategy. He is mainly working for large, internationally operating companies and their headquarters, often in line with the effective execution of mergers, acquisitions and re-structuring processes.

Currently she is staff member of the department of social and labor law and labor relations and in this function responsible for the employee share program of DaimlerChrysler.

Martin Oester is a member of the committee of Innovation Second Pillar (Innovation Zweite Säule). The association's aim is to act as a "Swiss think tank" to bring together different experiences from the Second Pillar Sector and to find new solutions. Innovation Second Pillar is presently involved in creating a Swiss Corporate Governance Agency.

Before joining Allianz he worked as an Internationaler Partner and Head of the "Human Capital" division at Arthur Andersen Germany. 1996 he was founder and leader of the Executive Compensation Practice within Towers Perrin.

Rainer Schätzle has a degree in Business Studies, majoring in banking. In 1986 examination and admission as Registered Representative at the New York Stock Exchange. He is the author of various financial texts, such as "Handbuch Börse" (Heyne 1985-2002) and "Sind Manager ihr Geld wert?" (FAZ-Verlag 2002) and Chairman of the supervisory board of morgen portfolio AG.

Before joining PwC, he worked several years for UBS in Switzerland. He graduated in Business Administration and Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur.

Barbara Seta coordinates the DACH Chapter of GEO and is a regional coordinator for the global GICR (Global Incentive Compensation Reporter) database of Ernst & Young and responsible for 14 countries. She has six years experience in assisting companies in relation to the accounting, HR, tax and legal issues relating to equity plans, in extending broad-based and executive plans to overseas jurisdictions and with the global implementation of share plans, including option plans, stock purchase plans, plans with saving features, co-investment plans, deferred compensation plans, restricted stock plans etc.