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Dr. Marie-Theres Thiell

Member of the Board of Trustees

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Dr. Marie-Theres Thiell, Member of the Board of Trustees
Dr. Marie-Theres Thiell
Member of the Board of Trustees

Biography

Dr. Marie-Theres Thiell is Managing Director of the DialogUngarn business network and a member of the Supervisory Board and Board of Trustees. She has worked in the energy industry (RWE/innogy) for 30 years, fifteen of which as a board member representing Schwerpunkt Ungarn in Eastern Europe, mainly in Hungary. Until 2020, she was a member of the divisional board of innogy SE responsible for the Eastern European network and at the same time chairman of the board of directors of Budapest Electricity Plc and ELMŰ-ÉMÁSZ. She holds a doctorate in law, is well-versed in German-Hungarian business relations and has extensive contacts in the business communities of both Germany and Hungary. Promoting women’s networking in business is a primary concern for her.

Professional competences
  • As CFO and Chairman of the Board, she has many years of operational experience in a complex regulatory environment.
  • Fifteen years of operational responsibility in Eastern Europe
  • M&A skills acquired in various national and international transactions.
  • Expertise in the classical tasks of a finance manager and in the digitalisation of customer service processes (customer service utilities).
  • Experience in change management, with a particular focus on the energy industry.
  • Experience in merging companies, excellent challenge management (RWE Downstream Geschäft – E.ON).
  • Experience in the field of “women in business” (networking, promoting more women to get into in management positions).
Major projects
  • Contractual structuring of the takeover of the energy industry in the new federal states by RWE, PreussenElektra and Bayernwerk, and structuring of the companies taken over (separation, fusion); launching enviaM.
  • Acquisition of several municipal utility interests (eg.: GEW Köln, SW Duisburg, SW Essen, stc.)
  • Legal support for RWE’s international acquisitions (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia)
  • Accompanying the fusion of RWE’s four large energy utilities in south-west Germany (Süwag)