The Ministry of Finance submitted the remaining two candidates for the new Ignitis Group Supervisory Board
The Ministry of Finance submitted the remaining two independent member candidates for the new term of the Ignitis Group Supervisory Board. The proposed candidates are Jutta Maria Hildegard Dissen (green transition and flexibility technologies) and the current Supervisory Board Member Judith Buss (finance and investments). They are seasoned executives with experience in the energy sector. The candidates proposed by the Ministry of Finance still need to be approved by the company’s shareholders.
The two independent members were submitted after completing their screening process. The Ignitis Group Supervisory Board will comprise nine members in total, six independent members and three civil servants. Four independent members and three civil servants were submitted to the company on 3 October.
Jutta Maria Hildegard Dissen is an experienced C-level executive with more than 20 years of management experience in global corporations (including DAX30), the energy sector and top consulting firms. Throughout her career, she has gained professional experience while leading companies through their entire business life cycle, from raising venture capital and developing digital innovations to company consolidation, crisis management and organisational transformation. Dissen has expertise in regulatory compliance, corporate governance and ESG as well as experience in the banking, energy and engineering sectors. She has led large, multicultural teams (over 250 employees), managing profit and loss responsibilities as well as implementing complex projects that cover various technologies and markets (offshore/onshore wind farms, solar farms, BESS).
Judith Buss has held senior positions at E.ON Group (a leading European energy company listed on the DAX-40 index) for more than 20 years, including the position of Chief Financial Officer, and at the global E.ON Climate & Renewables Group, which has over EUR 10 billion in assets and develops, builds and operates onshore and offshore wind as well as solar projects in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. She has extensive international experience in the energy, finance, and M&A sectors (leading and executing transactions worth over EUR 20 billion), debt and equity issuing, corporate governance and sustainability/CSRD reporting, serving as an independent board member at several large international organisations.
On 3 October, the Ministry of Finance submitted the following candidates for the positions of independent members: Alfonso Faubel (renewables) and Tim Brooks (sustainability and ESG, including environment, health and safety), who have extensive international experience working in the energy sector and especially in the area of renewables, Lorraine Wrafter (organisational development), who is an experienced organisational development and human resources executive, and Sian Lloyd Rees (risk management), who has many years of international experience and extensive expertise in the fields of energy and digitalisation. These candidates also serve in the current Supervisory Board of Ignitis Group.
Experts from the Ministry of Finance, Aušra Vičkačkienė (public policy and governance) and Ingrida Muckutė (accounting and audit), who are serving in the current term of the Supervisory Board and have won the selection process, were proposed to be the civil servant representatives. Expert from the Office of the Government, Lina Liubauskaitė (regulation) has been proposed to be the new civil servant representative.
