She was born in Hamburg (Germany) on April 4th, 1970.
Ines hold degrees in Process- and Energy Engineering from Technical University of Berlin (Germany), in Industrial Engineering from Ecole des Mines de St.Etienne (France) and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD (France, Singapore). After beginning her career in consulting with the firm AT. Kearney in 1997, she later joined Ericsson in Germany in an international sales role. Following that she joined the private equity company Arques AG in 2003, where she became the CFO of a portfolio company, Completel, a telecom operator. Later she became the CFO of Arques AG, before joining a new portfolio company, SKW Stahl-Metallurgie AG, a specialty chemicals company in 2004.
She became CEO of SKW and after 2 years she took the company public on the German stock exchange. Ines left SKW after almost 10 years as CEO in order to join EWE AG, a large German utility company as their CTO/COO in 2015. From 2017 to 2020 she was member of the executive board of Aperam SA, a stainless steel producer in Luxemburg, assuming the responsibility for the downstream activities, the sales as well as the supply chain.
Currently she is partner in Matterwave Ventures, a venture capital fund specialized in industrial tech. Furthermore, she holds the following mandates:an independent board member at Umicore SA, a chemicals company with headquarters in Belgium, that she joined in 2011. At Umicore she is the chair of the audit committee. Board member of Boralex Inc, renewable IPP (independent power producer) based in Canada, which she joined in 2022. At Boralex Inc, she is a member of the sustainability and audit committee. Board member of ETEX SA, a building materials company based in Belgium, which she joined in 2022. At ETEX SA, she is the chairperson of the audit committee.
Other board mandates that Ines she held were Fuchs Petrolub SE, a lubricant producer in Germany (2011-2015) and Suez SA an environmental company headquartered in France (2013-2018). She has been a member of the Company's Board of Directors since 28 April 2021, when she was elected from the slate presented by the Board of Directors. That slate achieved the majority of votes at the Shareholders’ Meeting. She is a member of the Sustainability Committee since 2021. The Board of Directors has verified that Ms. Kolmsee meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Corporate Governance Code’s art. 2, recommendation 7, and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
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