He succeeds Hans-Joachim Zwarg, who will resign from his position as member of the Supervisory Board for personal reasons at the end of the Annual General Meeting on August 30, 2012.
Gerrit Kaufhold is auditor and tax consultant. He has been working at Dr. Schmitz & Partner/HRG Hansische Revisions-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg since 2005. Prior to this, he was employed at Deutsche Bank, Arthur Andersen and Esche Schümann Commichau. Since November 2011 he is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UGRTOBXI XB.