Simone Menne
Simone Menne (born October 7, 1960 in Kiel ) is a German manager . From 2012 to 2016 she was CFO of Lufthansa AG . From September 1, 2016 to the end of 2017, she was in the Boehringer Ingelheim management team responsible for the finance division. Simone Menne is a member of the supervisory board and non-executive director in various companies (including BMW AG, Deutsche Post DHL, Johnson Controls International) and runs an art gallery in Kiel.
Life and professional history
Simone Menne grew up near Kiel; her father was a trained wood turner, her mother worked for a tax advisor. After graduating from high school, she first completed an apprenticeship as a specialist assistant in tax and business consulting professions and then studied business administration at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .
Career
In 1987 she started in the auditing department of ITT Corporation . In 1989 she moved to Lufthansa as an auditor. From 1992 she was in charge of accounting for the West Africa region. Later, as Managing Director of Lufthansa Revenue Services, Menne was in charge of IT, user services and a project to realign the revenue and performance accounting of the Lufthansa Passenger Airlines division . From 1999 to 2004 she was responsible for commercial administration and human resources, initially for the Southwestern Europe region until 2001, and later for Europe as a whole. From 2004 to 2010 Menne was head of finance and accounting at Lufthansa Technik . In 2010, Menne switched to the former LH subsidiary British Midland as CFO and supported its sale to the International Airlines Group . In 2012, Menne was appointed CFO of Deutsche Lufthansa, making him the first female CFO of a DAX group. In her role she defended the need for quotas for women in management positions.
Menne was chairwoman of the supervisory board of Lufthansa Cargo AG, LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG, Lufthansa Systems AG and Delvag Luftfahrtversicherungs AG, as well as a member of the supervisory board of Lufthansa Technik AG. The company announced on June 9, 2016 that Menne had requested an early termination of her Executive Board contract on August 31, 2016. On September 1, 2016, she switched to the management of Boehringer Ingelheim , where she was a member of the management team and was responsible for the finance department. Her work for Boehringer Ingelheim ended at the end of 2017.
Since then, Simone Menne has mainly worked on various supervisory boards and speaks at events on topics such as digitization and the role of women in business. She is a member of the supervisory board of BMW AG (since May 2016), Deutsche Post DHL AG (since May 2016) and Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (since 2020). She is also a Non-Executive Director at Johnson Controls International Plc. (since March 2018) and sits on the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT .
Simone Menne has been running a gallery in her hometown of Kiel since 2018 with works by young northern German artists. Simone Menne also publishes on her blog on topics such as digitization , business, art and women in management positions.
Web links
- Website by Simone Menne
- Simone Menne's CV at finance-magazin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ BMW Group - Company - Company profile. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Supervisory Board. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
- ^ Board of Directors. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Profile Sione Menne , munzinger.de (accessed November 25, 2018)
- ↑ Linkedin: Profile. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (German).
- ^ Simone Menne, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH & Co. KG . ( finance-magazin.de [accessed on September 18, 2018]).
- ↑ Jan Dams: Lufthansa CFO defends quota for women . In: THE WORLD . November 9, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
- ↑ Lufthansa CFO: Menne changes to Boehringer Ingelheim , spiegel.de, June 10, 2016, accessed on June 11, 2016
- ^ Simone Menne leaves Boehringer Ingelheim , manager-Magazin.de, December 15, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2018
- ↑ Noah Conference: Simone Menne, Lufthansa Group - Axel Springer NOAH16 Berlin. June 28, 2016, accessed September 18, 2018 .
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- ↑ My Art Gallery | SimoneMenne . In: SimoneMenne . April 30, 2018 ( simonemenne.de [accessed September 18, 2018]).
- ↑ https://www.simonemenne.de/blog/. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (UK English).
Current members: Norbert Reithofer (chairman) | Manfred Schoch (Deputy Chairman) | Stefan Quandt (Deputy Chairman) | Stefan Schmid (Deputy Chairman) | Karl-Ludwig Kley (Deputy Chairman) | Christiane Benner | Kurt Bock | Verena zu Dohna-Jaeger (employee representative) | Heinrich Hiesinger | Reinhard F. Hüttl | Susanne Klatten | Anke Schäferkordt | Horst Lischka (employee representative) | Willibald Löw (employee representative) | Simone Menne | Dominique Mohabeer (employee representative) | Brigitte Rödig (employee representative) | Vishal Sikka | Thomas Wittig (employee representative) | Werner Zierer (employee representative)
Former chairmen of the supervisory board: Hans Christian Dietrich (1918–1920) | Johannes Philipp Vielmetter (from 1920) | Albert Pinner (1921–1923) | Emil Georg von Stauß (1926–1942) | Hans Rummel (1942–1945) | Hans Karl von Mangoldt-Reiboldt (1948–1959) | Hans Feith (1959–1960) | Johannes Ferdinand Semler (1960–1961) | Alfons Wagner (1961–1962) | Hermann Karoli (1962–1972) | Rolf Draeger (1972–1974) | Herbert Quandt (1974–1980) | Hans von der Goltz (1980–1993) | Eberhard von Kuenheim (1993–1999) | Volker Doppelfeld (1999–2004) | Joachim Milberg (2004–2015) Renate Köcher |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menne, Simone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |