German Emirati Joint Council for Industry & Commerce (AHK) Protocol of the Ordinary General Assembly Tuesday, 31st May 2011 Beach Rotana Hotel, Abuu Dhabi The General Assembly on the German Emirati Joint Council for Industry & Commerce (AHK) took place on Tuesday, 31 st May 2011 at the Beach Rotana Hotel, Abu Dhabi. The assembly was opened by Dr. Peter Goepfrich, CEO of AHK, who confirmed that the quorum demanded by the By-Laws was reached. Martin Böll was nominated supervisor of elections. Agenda of the assembly was as follows: Presentation of the Report of the CEO on behalf of the Boardd of Directorss concerning activities 2010-2011 Discharge of responsibilities of the Board of Directors Presentation of the Financial Report concerning the financial year January 2010 December 2010 treasurer Ralph Nitzgen Presentation of the Independent Auditor s Report (PricewaterhouseCoopers) by Sami Fazly by the Appointment of the auditor for the new financial year. The auditor will be ODEH & Co. Certified Public Accountants, P.O. Box 30489, Abu Dhabi Voting on amendments of 5 (2) 1. and 6 (1) of the By-Laws, which were amended as follows: Active members can be natural persons, enterprises and organizations, private or public, residing in Germany or in the UAE or in another country and whose participation in the German-UAE economic relations as well as their support of the AHK s purposes can be proven. The membership begins with the accession of the admissionn resolution. A right to admission does not prevail. The admission follows the decision of the CEO as perr 5 (2). AHK employees do not have the right to membership.
Voting on approval of the new members of the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees was approved as per list in Appendix II Election of the new members of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors, whose term of office will be two years, was approved as per list in Appendix I Voting on approval of resolution to join the general assembly of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK). Resolution was approved. Right after the general assembly, the Constituent Session of the Board of Directors took place. During the session, the members of the board elected following members as Chairman, Vice Chairmen and Treasurer: H.E. Abdullah Al Masaood Raja Easa Saleh Al Gurg Dr. Gerhard Haase Ralph Nitzgen Chairman First Vice Chairperson Second Vice Chairman Treasurer Dubai, 1 st June 2011
Appendix I New Board of Directors of the German Emirati Joint Council for Industry & Commerce (AHK) Faisal M. Al Amiri Saeed Mohammed Al Ghurair Raja Easa Saleh Al Gurg H.E. Abdullah Al Masaood Mohammed Al Muallem Swaidan Saeed Al Naboodah H.H. Sheikha Dr. Hind Al Qassimi Faraj Ali Bin Hamoodah Abdul Rahman Saeed Ghanim Dr. Michael Bitzer Dr. Gerhard Haase Mazen Khourdaji Harald Kroll Markus Lechtermann Stefan Mecha Ralph Nitzgen Steffen Reisacher Udo Schäberle Chairman, Al Amiri International Trading Agencies LLC Investment Consultant, AL GHURAIR Investment LLC Managing Director, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group Chairman, Al Masaood Group Senior Vice President & Managing Director UAE Region, DP World Chairman, Al Naboodah Commercial Group LLC Chairperson, Emirates Businesswomen Council Chairman, Bin Hamoodah Group Chairman, Middle East General Enterprises CEO, National Health Insurance Company Daman Representative, Wintershall Middle East GmbH - Abu Dhabi Managing Director, Ghassan Ahmed Al Sulaiman Trading (GAAST) Managing Director, BASF FZE Vice President, TÜV Middle East Managing Director, Volkswagen Middle East FZE Senior Executive Officer/General Manager, Commerzbank AG Dubai Branch Market Development Leadd MENA, SAP Middle East & North Africa LLC Head of Private Clients Gulf Region, BHF-Bank Representative Office Abuu Dhabi
Appendix II German Emirati Joint Council for Industry & Commerce (AHK) Board of Trustees 1 H.E. Saed Al Awadi CEO EDC - Dubai Export Development Corporation 2 Mr. Suhail Al Banna CEO Tejari FZ LLC 3 H.E. Ali Bin Khalfan Al Mutawa Al Dhahry Chairman Ali & Sons Group 4 H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber CEO Masdar 5 Mr. Nazeem Fawwaz Al Kudsi CEO Invest AD - Abu Dhabi Investment Company PJSC 6 H.E. Mohamed Ahmed Al Mahmoud Ambassador of UAE to Germany UAE Embassy in Germany 7 Mr. Hussain Mohamed Al Mahmoudi Director General Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry 8 Mr. Rashid Al Mazroui Chairman Al Mazroui Group 9 H.E. Ahmed Mohammed Al Midfa Chariman Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry 10 Dr. Rashid Alleem Director General Hamriyah Free Zone Authority 11 Mr. Abdulaziz Al-Mikhlafi Secretary General Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e.v. 12 Dr. Florian Amereller Senior Partner Amereller Law Firm 13 Mr. Philipp Bayat Executive Board Member/Vorstand BAUER COMP Holding GmbH 14 Dr. Aldo Belloni Member of Executive Board Linde AG 15 Mr. Uwe Benkert General Manager Alpine Bau Deutschland AG - Dubai Branch 16 Prof. Roland Berger Chairman Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH 17 Dr. Olaf Berlien Chairman of the Board ThyssenKrupp AG 18 Dr. Martin Berlin Chief Strategy Officer Dubai Properties Group 19 Mr. Thomas Birringer Head of Regional Program Gulf States Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 20 Mr. Martin Böll Bureau Chief Germany Trade & Invest 21 H.E. Klaus-Peter Brandes Ambassador of Germany in the UAE German Embassy in the UAE 22 Dr. Jürgen Chrobog Chairman of the Board BMW Foundation 23 Mr. Dirk Demtröder Managing Director/COO IPIC Ferrostaal Contracting LLC 24 Mr. Horst Draudt Head of ME Implementation & Rollout Cassidian an EADS Company 25 Mr. Matthias Eckert Managing Partner Emc² Management Consulting 26 Mr. Dieter Ernst CEO Berlinwasser International AG 27 Dr. Jürgen Friedrich CEO Germany Trade & Invest 28 Mr. Bodo Fries Consultant 29 Dr. Dieter Fuchs General Manager Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Middle East 30 H.E. Abdul Jabbar Gargash Executive Director Gargash Enterprises
31 Mr. Dieter Grabenbauer Member Executive Board LURGI AG 32 Mr. Axel Graenitz Member of the Executive Board Dussmann Group 33 Dr. Frauke Heard-Bey Board Member Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation 34 Mr. Wolfgang Hedderich President & CEO HMS International Hotel GmbH / Maritim Hotels 35 Mr. Moritz Kerler General Manager QUARRY & MINING (RAK) LLC 36 Mr. Jürgen Koch Resident Repesentative / Gulf Region Office giz - IS International Services 37 Mrs. Monika Krauss General Manager Kitab 38 Mr. Joachim Kundt CEO Siemens LLC 39 Mr. Hans Wolfgang Kunz Member of Executive Board Giesecke & Devrient GmbH 40 Mr. Harald Luxen Managing Director Leytron Consulting Group 41 Mr. Peter Mayr CEO Terramar GmbH 42 Mrs. Liz Mohn Chairwoman of the Board Bertelsmann 43 Mr. Franz Peraus Senior vice President, Head of Middle East Cassidian an EADS Company 44 Dr. Amadeo Rahmann CEO Mondia FZ LLC 45 H.E. Klaus H. D. Ranner Consul General German Consulate General Dubai 46 Dr. Sven Rohte CCO National Health Insurance Company - Daman 47 Mr. Markus Scheer Member of the Board of Managing Directors KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH 48 Mr. Peter Scherer President & CFO Henkel Jebel Ali FZCO 49 Mr. Paul Schneider General Manager Al Rostamani Pegel LLC 50 Mr. John V. Schneider-Merck General Manager & Partner Bin Ghassan Trading LLC 51 Mr. Peter-Michael Schuster General Manager RAK Offshore - RAK Investment Authority 52 Mr. Karim Smaira Vice President-Intercontinental Merck Serono Middle East FZ-LLC 53 Mr. Joachim Steinbach Vice President Sales and Services SE Europe, Africa & ME Lufthansa 54 Mr. Peter Steinhorst General Manager HOCHTIEF Construction Management Middle East GmbH 55 Mr. Marcus Thiel Corporate Banking Services Deutsche Bank AG - Dubai Branch (DIFC) 56 Dr. Gunter Thielen Chairman of the Supervisory Board Bertelsmann AG 57 Dr. Michael Thiemann Chairman of the Executive Board Uhde GmbH 58 Mr. Burkhard Thost Owner THOST Projektmanagement für Bauten und Anlagen GmbH 59 Mr. Peter Alexander Trettin President and CEO Central, Eastern Europe / Africa / Asia Daimler AG 60 Mr. Thomas Vogel CEO Endress+Hauser Instruments International AG 61 Mr. Norbert Wagner Project Manager Knauf RAK FZE