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BOARD OF
DIRECTORS

The Board of Directors is responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of Topsoe A/S. It also supervises the execution of the strategy, as well as the performance of the company and the Senior Leadership Team and must ensure proper organization of the company’s business.    

The Board of Directors of Topsoe consists of external independent board members, members of the Topsøe family as well as employee representatives of Topsoe A/S.

The Board of Directors strives to be diverse in gender, nationality, age, international experience, qualifications and competencies. The board comprises five different nationalities, and board members bring a variety of backgrounds in business, engineering, physics, economy and law, coupled with extensive experience and expertise across a wide range of sectors, businesses and institutions.   

The Board of Directors has established a chairmanship, an Audit, ESG and Risk Committee, a Remuneration Committee and an Innovation Committee. The purpose of the board committees is to report and make recommendations to the board.  Read more here.

Ines Kolmsee

Ines Kolmsee is a General Partner at Matterwave Ventures and member of the Board of Directors of Etex SA, Boralex INC and Prysmian SPA. Previously, she was part of the Executive Board at Aperam SA and before that COO/CTO at EWE AG.

Ines holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc. in Process and Energy Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, and a Master’s Degree from Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne. In 2009, she was named ‘Female Manager of the Year’ by FT Deutschland and featured on Financial Times ‘Top 50 Women in World Business 2010/2011’