Organisation of the CCI for Munich and Upper Bavaria

© ©BayWa AG / Forster & Martin, Abdruck honorarfrei

• President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria since since 2021
• President of the Bavarian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry since 2021
• Chief Executive Officer of Churfirst Assets GmbH

Personal Details:

• Date of birth: March 20, 1958
• Place of birth: Munich (D)
• Nationality: German

Education:

• 1979-1983 Law Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (D)
• 1983-1986 1st and 2nd State Examination (with distinction)
• 1984-1986 Legal Clerkship at Oberlandesgericht Munich (D)
• 1987 Admission to the Bar

Professional Career:

• 1987 Research Assistant at the Chair for Economic, Labor and Corporate Law
  at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (D)
• 1987-1989 Attorney at law firm Kistler & Partner Munich (D)(1988-1989: Partner)
• 1989-1990 Syndic Lawyer at Digital Equipment GmbH Munich (D)
• 1991-1993 Member of the Executive Board of Digital Kienzle GmbH & Co. KG Villingen (D)
• 1993-1994 Managing Director of Digital Holding GmbH and Digital Equipment GmbH Munich (D)
• 1994-1996 CEO of DITEC Informationstechnologie AG Munich (D)
• 1996-1999 Managing Director of Burda Druck GmbH Offenburg (D)/ Vieux Thann (F) / Bratislava (SK)
• 1999-2002 CEO of i-center Beteiligungen AG Nuremberg (D)
• 2002 Interim Manager of Unaxis Management AG Zürich (CH) / Balzers (FL)
• 2002-2008 CEO of Süddeutscher Verlag GmbH Munich (D)
• 2008-2023 CEO of BayWa Group Munich (D)

Memberships and further Positions:

• 2023 - 2024: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BayWa AG
• 2021 - 2024: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BayWa r.e. AG
• 2008 - 2024: Member of the Supervisory Board of RWA AG Vienna (A)
• since 2012: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Euro Pool System International B.V. Rijswijk (NL)
• since 2012: Chairman of the Supervisory Board and the Advisory Board of Giesecke & Devrient GmbH Munich (D)
• since 2022: Member of the Supervisory Board of Stichting Continuiteit AMG, Amsterdam (NL)
• Teaching Position at Technische Universität Munich (D)

© Wolf Heider-Sawall

• CEO of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria since 2019
• CEO of the Bavarian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry since 2019
• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Bavarian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Service GmbH since 2019

Personal Details:

• Date of Birth: August 8, 1966
• Place of Birth: near Ingolstadt, Bavaria
• Nationality: German
• Married, one son

Education:

• 1985-1989 Degree course in business administration at Fachhochschule Regensburg (≈ advanced technical college), graduated Dipl.-Betriebswirt
• 1989-1991 Economics degree at the University of Bremen, graduated Dipl.-Ökonom
• 1992-1994 Ph.D. scholarship at the Bremer Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsforschung e. V.
• 1996 Received Ph.D. in economics (Dr. rer. pol.) (Thesis:“The position of the western European economic area within the global competitive environment”)

Professional Career:

• 1994-1997 Managing Director of the Institute for World Economics and International Management at the University of Bremen
• 1997-2000 Head of Foreign Trade division (from 1999) as Deputy Managing Director; Head of Customer Service Centre and Assistant to the CEO at CCI Nordschwarzwald in Pforzheim

Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Munich and Upper Bavaria:

• 2000-2005 Head of the Western European division as well as of the Euro Info Centre of the CCI and Chamber of Craft Trades for Munich and Upper Bavaria
• 2006-2010 Department Head - Foreign Trade
• since 2008 Deputy CEO
• 2010-2019 Department Head - Central Tasks and General Policy

Bavarian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry:

• 2006-2013 Managing Director
• 2006-2017 Managing Director of the Bavarian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry Service GmbH

Other non-executive Positions:

• Member of the Supervisory Board of Messe München GmbH
• Member of the Supervisory Board of MGH-Münchner Gewerbehof- und Technologiezentrumsgesellschaft mbH
• Member of the Administrative Board of the LfA Förderbank Bayern
• Member of the Supervisory Board of the IHK Gesellschaft für Informationsverarbeitung mbH
• Member of the Supervisory Board of the IHK Academy Munich and Upper Bavaria
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Bayerische EliteAkademie foundation
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Bayern International, the Bavarian Bureau for International Business Relations mbH (until 2021)