• Kreetz moves up to Uniper Board on March 1 to replace David Bryson
• Tom Blades: "Kreetz represents operational excellence and transformation of the company
• Kreetz was a project sponsor for the construction of Germany's first LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven
Holger Kreetz, previously head of Uniper's Asset Management division, will become the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a member of Uniper's Management Board. This was decided by the Uniper Supervisory Board at its meeting today. David Bryson, whose departure Uniper announced at the beginning of the year, will step down from the Management Board of Uniper on February 28. He took over the COO function in November 2019. Likewise, Kreetz will take over from Bryson as Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO).
On January 20, Uniper announced Dr. Jutta A. Dönges as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and successor to Tiina Tuomela. This means that the Board roles of CFO and COO at Uniper will be filled from March 1.
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The Uniper colleagues prove their outstanding quality day after day and I am very pleased that we can now fill the COO role from Uniper’s own ranks. Holger Kreetz has proven his leadership qualities over many years. He stands for operational excellence and is driving transformation within the company. I wish him every pleasure and success as he does this from within the Board of Management from March 1.
Tom Blades, Chairman of the Uniper Supervisory Board
It is a privilege to be appointed to Uniper's Board of Management. I look forward to working with great colleagues across the board to steer our company through the next exciting phase of its development together. David Bryson and I will soon begin the handover and I am very much looking forward to starting, together with Jutta Dönges, at the beginning of March. It will be my job to drive the transformation of the company. Uniper takes global warming seriously. It remains our goal to achieve climate neutrality in European power generation by 2035. Holger Kreetz
I am pleased to hand over my duties to Holger Kreetz in the coming days. I have worked with Holger for many years and have always been impressed by his passion and enthusiasm for our industry. David Bryson
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Holger Kreetz holds a degree in engineering (TU Berlin) and a PhD in engineering from the Australian National University, Canberra. He has worked for Uniper and its predecessor companies since 2001, mainly in power generation management. For example, Kreetz organized E.ON's market entry in Turkey about ten years ago and was subsequently COO of EnerjiSA A.S., a joint venture between E.ON and the Turkish Sabanci Group, for three years. Since the founding of Uniper in 2016, Kreetz has been responsible as COO Asset Management for the Düsseldorf-based company's 27 gigawatt asset portfolio ranging from conventional energy to hydrogen with more than 700 employees. Most recently, Holger Kreetz was project sponsor for the construction of Germany's first LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven, which opened last December after only ten months of construction on behalf of the German government. Kreetz is 52 years old, married and a father of two daughters.
