SUSS MicroTec SE

Year of Birth: 1965
Nationality: German
Professional Qualification: Master Degree in Electrical Engineering (University of the Bundeswehr, Munich)

Burkhardt Frick (born 1965) has more than 30 years experience in the high-tech industry. Before his appointment to the Management Board of SUSS MicroTec in September 2023, he had worked for the leading global semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML since 2014. As the Vice President of Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain, he was initially responsible for purchasing and strategic partnerships with some of the company’s most important suppliers. Since 2021, as the Vice President of Corporate Marketing, he has supported the Management Board with the long-term product and market strategy. Between 1994 and 2014, Burkhardt Frick served in various management positions in Philips’ mobile display and semiconductor business, with stations of several years each in the USA and Hong Kong. Specifically, he led strategic marketing and sales organizations and most recently served as a member of the Management Board of Assembléon, a former Philips subsidiary. Burkhardt Frick lived in Asia and the USA for many years and has an excellent network in the sales markets that are most important for SUSS MicroTec.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany: None
Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

Member of the Management Board since September 11, 2023. Currently appointed to the Management Board until September 10, 2026.

Year of Birth: 1965
Nationality: German
Professional Qualification: PhD (Business Administration, University of Wuerzburg)

Prior to her appointment to the Management Board of SUSS MicroTec SE, Dr. Cornelia Ballwießer was most recently a member of the Executive Board and CFO of PWO AG, a mobility industry company listed in the Deutsche Boerse’s Prime Standard segment. There, between November 2020 and June 2023, she was responsible for finance, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, purchasing, IT, legal, compliance, and corporate governance. She served in various management roles in the automotive supply industry starting in 2001. She was responsible for controlling, accounting and corporate planning throughout the Group at LEONI AG, most recently as Senior Vice President for Corporate Planning and Corporate Accounting, before moving to the position of Managing Director and CFO at Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH. Ballwießer began her career at VIAG AG in Munich in 1995 and took charge of its corporate accounting activities in 1998. She studied business administration at Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet of Wuerzburg, where she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Auditing and Consulting and completed her academic career with a doctorate in 1996.

Member of the Management Board since July 1, 2023. Currently appointed to the Management Board unitl June 20, 2026.

Year of Birth: 1966
Nationality: German
Professional Qualification: Ph.D. (Physics, University of Stuttgart), MBA (Universities of Augsburg/Pittsburgh)

Before his Ph.D. as Dr. Ing. at the University of Stuttgart in 2001, Thomas Rohe (born 1966) studied Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 2009 and 2010 he completed an MBA course at the Universities of Augsburg and Pittsburgh (USA). Thomas Rohe began his professional career in 1994 at the Fraunhofer Institute ICT. In 2001, he joined the industry at Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, where he was initially responsible for developing wafer scanner optics as a product manager. In 2005, he became head of the LIT-TM Technology Mechatronics department. From 2007 to 2014, he also worked for companies of the Carl Zeiss Group as Business Unit Manager and, most recently, as Senior Director of Operations in the Electron Microscopy Business Unit. He then assumed the position of Executive Board member and COO of Prueftechnik Dieter Busch AG, which was sold to the American Fortive Group and its subsidiary Fluke, respectively, in July 2019. Thomas Rohe has a high level of understanding of technology and manufacturing and relevant industry experience.

Member of the Management Board since May 1, 2021. Currently appointed to the Management Board until April 30, 2027.