People: Qiagen NV (QGEN.O)

QGEN.O on Nasdaq

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24 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Detlev Riesner

 71 1999 Independent Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Peer Schatz

 47 2004 Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director

Erik Hornnaess

 75 2007 Independent Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Roland Sackers

 44 2006 Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director

Werner Brandt

 2007 Independent Supervisory Director

Metin Colpan

 2004 Supervisory Director

Manfred Karobath

 71 2000 Independent Supervisory Director

Elizabeth Tallett

 63 Independent Supervisory Director

Heino von Prondzynski

 64 2007 Independent Supervisory Director

John Gilardi

 Vice President - Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
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Biographies

Name Description

Detlev Riesner

 Professor Dr. Detlev H. Riesner, Ph.D., is Independent Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Qiagen N.V. He is a co-founder of the Company. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 1996 and was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board in 1999, and in 2005, he was also appointed Chairman of the Selection and Appointment Committee. Professor Riesner has held the Chair of Biophysics at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf since 1980 and retired in 2006. He has held the position of Dean of the Science Faculty (1991-92), Vice President of the University (Research) (1996-99) and Director of Technology (1999-2006). In 2007, he became a member of the University's board of trustees. Prior to that, he was Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology and, from 1975 to 1977, Lecturer of Biophysical Chemistry at Hannover Medical School. He has held guest professorships at the Institute of Microbiology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, and the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his M.S. in Physics from Hannover Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of Braunschweig, with post-graduate work at Princeton University. Professor Riesner is either a member of the Supervisory Board or a director of AC Immune S.A., Lausanne, Algiax Pharmaceuticals GmbH (former Spinal Cord Therapeutics), Erkrath, Evocatal GmbH, Düsseldorf, DRK Blutspendedienst West gGmbH, Hagen and DIWA GmbH, Dusseldorf. His memberships in the advisory boards of NewLab Bioquality AG and Direvo AG ended when the companies were sold in 2006. Professor Riesner is also a member of the scientific advisory boards of PrioNet, Canada, and Alberta Prion Research Institute, Canada.

Peer Schatz

 Mr. Peer M. Schatz is Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director of Qiagen N.V. He joined the Company in 1993 and has been Chief Executive Officer since January 1, 2004. Between 1993 and 2003 he was Chief Financial Officer and became a member of the Managing Board in 1998. Mr. Schatz was previously a partner in a private management buyout group in Switzerland and worked in finance and systems positions in Sandoz, Ltd. and Computerland AG, as well as in finance, operations, management and sales positions in various start-up companies in the computer and software trading industry in Europe and the United States. Mr. Schatz graduated from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, with a Master's degree in Finance in 1989 and obtained an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1991. Until 2008, Mr. Schatz was a member of the Supervisory Board of Evotec AG. He serves as a member of the Managing Board of PMS Asset Management GmbH. Mr. Schatz also previously served as a member of the German Corporate Governance Commission from 2002 to January 2012. He is also chairman of the board of directors of Ipsogen S.A., which is a majority-owned subsidiary of QIAGEN that was acquired in 2011.

Erik Hornnaess

 Mr. Erik Hornnaess is Independent Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Qiagen N.V. He joined the Audit Committee in 2002, the Compensation Committee in 2005 and the Selection and Appointment Committee in 2007. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board in 2007. Mr. Hornnaess worked for Astra Pharmaceuticals, Sweden from 1965 until 1979 in various management positions in Sweden, Australia, and Canada and, for the last three years of this period, as the General Manager for the Benelux region (Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg). In 1979, he joined Abbott Laboratories European Headquarters in Paris, France, and from 1982, he was the Area Vice-President of Abbott Diagnostic Division in Europe, Middle-East and Africa, with headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany. Mr. Hornnaess retired from Abbott Laboratories on March 1, 1997 and currently serves as non-executive director of AXIS-SHIELDS Group, Scotland. Additionally, Mr. Hornnaess served as the Vice-President of European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association (EDMA), Brussels in the period 1995 through 1997. Mr. Hornnaess graduated from Aarhus Handelshojskole, Denmark with an M.B.A. and obtained a P.M.D. from the Harvard Business School.

Roland Sackers

 Mr. Roland Sackers is Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director of Qiagen N.V. He joined the Company in 1999 as Vice President Finance and has been Chief Financial Officer since 2004. In 2006, Mr. Sackers became a member of the Managing Board. Between 1995 and 1999, he served as an auditor with Arthur Andersen Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft. Mr. Sackers earned his Diplom-Kaufmann from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany after studying business administration. Until 2006, he was a member of the Supervisory Board and Audit Committee of IBS AG. Mr. Sackers was also a member of the board of directors of Operon Biotechnologies, Inc., until December 2007. Mr. Sackers is a board member of the industry association BIO Deutschland. He is also a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Immunodiagnostic Systems Holding (IDS), a producer of immunological tests for research and diagnostic applications publicly listed in the United Kingdom, as well as member of the board of directors and head of the audit committee of Ipsogen S.A., which is a majority-owned subsidiary of QIAGEN that was acquired in 2011.

Werner Brandt

 Dr. Werner Brandt is Independent Supervisory Director of Qiagen N.V. In the same year, he was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee. Dr. Brandt has been a member of the Executive Board and the Chief Financial Officer of SAP AG since 2001. From 1999 to 2001, he was a member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer of the German-American healthcare company, Fresenius Medical Care AG, where he also served as Labor Relations Director. From 1992 to 1999, Dr. Brandt was a member of the Managing Board of Baxter Deutschland GmbH and Vice President for European Operations. In this capacity, he was responsible for Baxter's financial operations in Europe. Dr. Brandt began his career in 1981 at the former Price Waterhouse GmbH (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Frankfurt. Dr. Brandt completed his Doctorate in business administration from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany in 1991, after studying business administration at the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany from 1976 to 1981. Dr. Brandt is currently a member of the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

Metin Colpan

 Dr. Metin Colpan, Ph.D., is Supervisory Director of Qiagen N.V. He is aa co-founder of the Company and was Chief Executive Officer and a Managing Director from 1985 through 2003. Dr. Colpan has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2004. Dr. Colpan obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in 1983. Prior to founding QIAGEN, Dr. Colpan was an Assistant Investigator at the Institute for Biophysics at the University of Düsseldorf. Dr. Colpan has had wide experience in separation techniques, and in the separation and purification of nucleic acids in particular, and has filed many patents in the field. Dr. Colpan currently serves as a Supervisory Board member of Morphosys AG, Munich, Germany and Qalovis Farmer Automatic Energy GmbH, Laer, Germany. Dr. Colpan previously served as Supervisory Board member of Ingenium Pharmaceuticals AG, GenPat77 Pharmacogenetics AG and GPC Biotech AG, each in Munich, Germany.

Manfred Karobath

 Professor Dr. Manfred Karobath, M.D., is Independent Supervisory Director of Qiagen N.V. He joined the Compensation Committee in 2005. Prof. Dr. Karobath studied medicine, and from 1967 to 1980, he worked first in the Dept. of Biochemistry of the University of Vienna and, after a stage as postdoctoral fellow, he joined the Dept. of Psychiatry where he became Professor of Biological Psychiatry. In 1980, he joined Sandoz Pharma in Basel, first, in drug discovery, and later, he became Senior Vice President and head of R&D. In 1992, Prof. Dr. Karobath joined Rhone Poulenc Rorer (“RPR”) as President of R&D and Executive Vice President, and later, he became a member of the boards of directors of RPR, Pasteur Mérieux Connought, Centeon and Rhone Poulenc Pharma. He has received several scientific awards and has published 92 scientific papers.

Elizabeth Tallett

 Ms. Elizabeth E. Tallett is Independent Supervisory Director of Qiagen NV. She has been a Principal of Hunter Partners, LLC, a management company for early to mid-stage pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, since 2002. Her senior management experience includes President and CEO of Transcell Technologies Inc., President of Centocor Pharmaceuticals, member of the Parke-Davis Executive Committee, and Director of Worldwide Strategic Planning for Warner-Lambert Company. Ms. Tallett graduated from Nottingham University, England with dual Bachelor's degrees with honors in mathematics and economics. She is a member of the board of directors of Principal Financial Group, Inc., Coventry Health Care, Inc., Meredith Corp. and IntegraMed America, Inc. Ms. Tallett is currently the Lead Director for both Principal and Coventry Health Care. She was also a director of Varian, Inc., Immunicon, Inc. and Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. at times during the past five years. Ms. Tallett was a founding board member of the Biotechnology Council of New Jersey and is a Trustee of Solebury School in Pennsylvania.

Heino von Prondzynski

 Mr. Heino von Prondzynski is Independent Supervisory Director of Qiagen N.V. Mr. von Prondzynski retired in 2005 from Roche where he served as Chief Executive Officer of Roche Diagnostics and a member of the Executive Committee of the Roche Group. Prior to joining Roche in 2000, Mr. von Prondzynski worked at Chiron, first as General Manager and Chief Executive Officer in Germany and Italy, later as President of the Vaccines Division in Emeryville, USA. Mr. von Prondzynski started his career with Bayer in Germany as a sales representative and later worked in Austria and Brazil as General Manager. He studied mathematics, geography and history at Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster in Germany. Mr. von Prondzynski is a director of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, and Hospira, Inc and Chairman of Biocare Holding AG and HTL Strefa. Mr. von Prondzynski was previously a director of Epigenomics AG and Chairman of Nobel Biocare Holding AG.

John Gilardi

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Detlev Riesner

 45,800

Peer Schatz

 1,399,000

Erik Hornnaess

 43,550

Roland Sackers

 634,000

Werner Brandt

 21,450

Metin Colpan

 27,300

Manfred Karobath

 29,800

Elizabeth Tallett

 --

Heino von Prondzynski

 16,950

John Gilardi

 --
As Of 30 Dec 2012

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