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Mr. Jan Rinnert (Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, CEO of Heraeus Group)

Mr. Jan Rinnert

Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, CEO of Heraeus Group

Jan Rinnert was born in Oldenburg/Holstein in 1968. Following his training as a military officer of the German army, Jan Rinnert earned his degrees in law and business administration from the University of Passau.

Following professional appointments as advisor of a parliamentary investigation committee and spokesman of the Senator (minister level) of Economic Affairs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen (state level) Jan Rinnert served as a senior management consultant at A.T. Kearney. 2002 Jan Rinnert changed into industry and became the managing director of Titan-Aluminium-Feinguß GmbH a leading investment casting company and supplier to the aerospace industry.

In 2004 Jan Rinnert joined the Heraeus Group and headed Heraeus Kulzer GmbH, the health care division of the Heraeus Group, as managing director until 2007. Jan Rinnert has been a Member of the Board of Managing Directors of the Heraeus Group since August 2007. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, CEO of the Heraeus Group in June 2013.

In addition to his Heraeus’ responsibilities, Jan Rinnert is involved in other family businesses and organizations as a member of supervisory/advisory boards as well as trustee.

Jan Rinnert is married and has three children.

Mr. Titus von dem Bongart (Moderator) (Partner / Head of GBN Greater China, ASEAN, and Korea Ernst & Young (China) Advisory Ltd. Shanghai Branch Office)

Mr. Titus von dem Bongart (Moderator)

Partner / Head of GBN Greater China, ASEAN, and Korea Ernst & Young (China) Advisory Ltd. Shanghai Branch Office

Mr. Titus Von dem Bongart qualified as German Attorney-at- Law in 1996. After working 10 years for other Big 5 companies, he joined EY Shanghai as a Partner in 2006. He is a lecturer for Chinese Tax at the University of Hamburg as well as the Tongji University in Shanghai. He has been the Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai from 2010 to 2016.

Since 20 years, Titus von dem Bongart has regularly advised clients on various matters related to their China investment, e.g. the restructuring of their China stet-up/ China impact of international restructurings including supply chain models and other changes He deals with various matters related to different areas of foreign investment in China, e.g. forex, permanent establishments, tax compliance, tax efficiency and incentives Titus is a frequent speaker related to China tax matters and regularly publishes relevant articles He has served all Dax 30 companies with investment in China as well as a big number of medium sized and small scale companies in different industries.