Executive Board and Board of Trustees

The Executive Board and Board of Trustees, along with the General Meeting, are the most important bodies for steering the activities of the institute. The Board of Trustees sets policy guidelines for the work of the institute, draws up the budget, elects the managing directors and appoints the auditors.

Executive Board

From the ranks of the Board of Trustees the members elect a Chairman (President) and at least one deputy. Together they form the Executive Board.

• President
  Prof. Götz W. Werner, Founder and board of directors,
  dm-drogerie markt GmbH & Co. KG, Karlsruhe
• Deputy:
  Klaus Appelhoff, Essen
• Steering Group:
  Kurt Jox, Chairman of the Board of Management, ,
  Porta Möbel Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Porta Westfalica,
  Dr. Reinhard Schütte, Executive Board, EDEKA AG, Hamburg

Members of the Board of Trustees

• Klaus Appelhoff, founder and Managing Director, Appelhoff Retail Experts GmbH ,Essen
• Friedhelm Dornseifer, CEO, Dornseifer Unternehmensgruppe, Wenden
• Nigel Garbutt, President, FOODPLUS GmbH, Cologne
• Dr. Karl-Heinz Henksmeier, Honorary member, Cologne
• Harm Humburg, Managing Director, Ferrero Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt a.
• M. Kurt Jox, Chairman of Management Board, Porta Möbel Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Porta Westfalica
• Hans-Heinrich Katt, Teradata a Division of NCR, Oberndorf Peter Loheide, Managing Director, Contura Consult GmbH, Mülheim/Ruhr
• Roman Melcher, Managing Director, dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG, Karlsruhe
• Andreas Münch, Generaldirector Logistics & Informatic, Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund, Zürich (Switzerland)
• Reinhard Schütte, Executive Board, Edeka AG, Hamburg
• Jens Siebenhaar, Chairman of the Board of Management, Rewe-Informations-Systeme GmbH, Cologne
• Michael Sylvester, Head of Business Development, ZEUS Zentrale für Einkauf und Service GmbH & Co. KG, Soltau
• Henry Taubald, CEO, s.Oliver Bernd Freier GmbH & Co. KG, Rottendorf
• Markus Tkotz, Managing Director, MARKANT AG. Pfäffikon, (Switzerland)
• Michael Wiedmann, Head of Corporate Relations, METRO Group, Dusseldorf