Our Com­mit­tees

As a non-prof­it stock cor­po­ra­tion, PHI­NEO is sub­ject to the reg­u­la­tions of the Ger­man stock cor­po­ra­tion law.

The non-prof­it stock cor­po­ra­tion has three exec­u­tive bod­ies: The Exec­u­tive Board, the Super­vi­so­ry Board and the Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing. In addi­tion, an Advi­so­ry Board is in place.

The Exec­u­tive Board

The full-time Exec­u­tive Board con­sists of Dr. Andreas Rick­ert. He man­age the busi­ness activ­i­ties, rep­re­sent PHI­NEO exter­nal­ly and is pri­mar­i­ly respon­si­ble for the estab­lish­ment of part­ner­ships, the fur­ther devel­op­ment of con­tacts as well as the over­all strat­e­gy. He inform the com­mit­tees on a reg­u­lar basis, approve the annu­al accounts and accept the auditor’s report.

Chris­t­ian Berg­er, Juliane Hage­dorn und Dr. Philipp Hoelsch­er sup­port the Exec­u­tive Board in the man­age­ment of the organization.

The Super­vi­so­ry Board

The hon­orary Super­vi­so­ry Board con­sists of six com­mit­ted mem­bers. It is in its respon­si­bil­i­ty to con­trol the Exec­u­tive Board of PHI­NEO, in par­tic­u­lar the audit­ing of the annu­al report. 

In addi­tion, the Super­vi­so­ry Board must approve the trans­ac­tions set out in the Arti­cles of Cor­po­ra­tion, such as the devel­op­ment of new busi­ness segments.

The mem­bers of Super­vi­so­ry Board are:

• Michael Peters, mem­ber of the Eurex Frank­furt AG Exec­u­tive Board at Deutsche Boerse AG (Chair­man)
  
• Dr. Brigitte Mohn, mem­ber of the Ber­tels­mann Stiftung Exec­u­tive Board (Deputy Chairwoman)
• Mat­tias Schmelz­er, mem­ber of the board KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
  
• Mat­thi­as Schmolz, CEO and Com­mer­cial Direc­tor by Stif­ter­ver­band für die Deut­sche Wis­sen­schaft e.V.
• Dr. Ais­cha Astou Saw, Man­ag­ing direc­tor SAW Consulting

The Annu­al Gen­er­al Meeting

The Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the non-prof­it cor­po­ra­tion is a decid­ing body. It is com­posed of all share­hold­ers and meets once a year.

Top­ics include:

• the pre­sen­ta­tion of the approved annu­al accounts of PHI­NEO and the report of the Super­vi­so­ry Board,
• the report of the Exec­u­tive Board, the appro­pri­a­tion of retained earn­ings, the dis­charge of the Exec­u­tive Board and the Super­vi­so­ry Board,
• the appoint­ment of the auditor

The Advi­so­ry Board

PHI­NEO is sup­port­ed by renowned experts and promi­nent per­son­al­i­ties on a vol­un­tary basis. In the Advi­so­ry Board they pro­mote the con­cept of an impact-ori­ent­ed civ­il society.

The Advi­so­ry Board pro­vides PHI­NEO with con­tent-relat­ed exper­tise as well as the inde­pen­dent view from the outside.

• Frie­de­ri­ke Beh­rens, Man­ag­ing direc­tor, Post­code Lot­te­rie DT gGmbH
  
• Armin v. But­t­lar, Exec­u­tive Board at Aktion Men­sch association
  
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Druyen, Exec­u­tive Board at Sig­mund Freud Uni­ver­si­ty Vien­na, Insti­tute for Wealth­i­bil­i­ty and Wealth Psychology
• Kim­ber­ly Mar­teau Emer­son, Board of Direc­tors, Human Rights Watch
• Stef­fen Feld­mann, Chief offi­cer for finance and inter­na­tion­al affairs at Deutsch­er Car­i­tasver­band e.V
  
• Thiemo Fojkar, CEO of Inter­na­tionaler Bund (IB)
  
• Daniela Geue, Lawyer
• Dr. Anna Katha­ri­na Gol­lan, Part­ner at P+P Pöl­lath and Partners
• Dr. Eckart von Hirschhausen, Pre­sen­ter, Author, Founder
• Anne Jeglinksi, Head of Dis­trict Office / Inno­va­tion and Impact Par­itätis­ch­er Wohlfahrtsver­band Berlin e.V.
• Prof. Dr. Nadi­ne Kam­mer­lan­der, Chair of the Insti­tute for Fam­i­ly Busi­ness­es and SMEs (ifbm@WHU) and Chair of Fam­i­ly Busi­ness­es, WHU – Otto Beis­heim School of Management
• Nor­bert Kunz, CEO Social Impact gGmbH
  
• Dr. Flo­ri­an Lan­gen­schei­dt, Entre­pre­neur, Founder
• Michael Löher, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Ger­man Asso­ci­a­tion for Pub­lic and Pri­vate Welfare
• Torsten Müller, Founder
• Oliv­er Oehri, Found­ing Part­ner at sil­ver­FOX 77
• Alexan­dra von Rehlin­gen, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Schoeller & von Rehlingen
• Hajo Riesen­beck, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Riesen­beck-IC GmbH
• Hans Schöpflin, Chair­man of the Exec­u­tive Board at Schöpflin Stiftung
  
• Regine Sixt, CEO of Regine Sixt Chil­dren’s Aid Foundation
• Prof. Dr. Rita Süss­muth, for­mer Pres­i­dent of the Bundestag
• San­dra Thi­er, Pre­sen­ter
• Melin­da Weber, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Wohn­RaumGe­sellschaft mbH