Maria Dietz

Former Director of Group Purchase at GFT
Member of Audit Committee

Biography

Member of the Administrative Board since:

08/18/2015

Personal data:

Date of birth: 03/02/1962
Place of birth: Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Nationality: German

Education

1982 - 1985

Studied general business administration in the field of industry at the DHBW (Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, then: Berufsakademie), Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Focus: finance and accounting as well as international marketing
Degree: Diplom-Betriebswirtin

Professional career
1985 - 1988	Marketing and Export Specialist at GAS Gesellschaft für Antriebs- und Steuerungstechnik, St. Georgen, Germany
1988 - 1989	Marketing Consultant at Atlantic Consultants GmbH, Munich, Germany
1989 - 1990	Marketing Manager at Wesser Informatik GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
1990 - 1998	Partner and Commercial Director of Gesellschaft für Technologietransfer GmbH, St. Georgen, Germany
1998 - 2004	Head of Human Resources and Marketing of GFT Technologies AG, St. Georgen, Germany
2004 - 2010	Head of Legal and Corporate Audit of GFT Technologies AG, Stuttgart, Germany
2010 - 2015	Head of Global Purchasing at GFT Technologies AG, Stuttgart, Germany
since 2015	Member of the Administrative Board of GFT Technologies SE, Stuttgart, Germany

Expertise / focuses

Management activities in capital-market-oriented companies, committee expertise, in particular through memberships in supervisory committees of international family-owned companies in the areas of IT, medical technology and education, value-based management, technology, IT services, human resources, finance and accounting, including accounting and balance sheet analysis, internal audit, mergers & acquisitions, ESG, corporate governance

Membership in statutory supervisory boards:

Drägerwerk AG & KGaA, Lübeck, Germany (Member of the Supervisory Board)
Drägerwerk Verwaltungs AG, Lübeck, Germany (Member of the Supervisory Board)
Dräger Safety AG & KGaA, Lübeck, Germany (Member of the Supervisory Board)
Ernst Klett Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart, Germany (Member of the Supervisory Board)
LBBW Asset Management Investmentgesellschaft mbh, Stuttgart (Member of the Supervisory Board)

Other significant activities:

Member of the University Council of HFT Stuttgart, Germany
Member of the Advisory Board of the Head Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Lay judge at the District Court of Stuttgart, Germany
Member of the “Jugend gründet” jury