Managing Board
At the end of the financial year 2025 the Managing Board consisted of four members: Rohit Aggarwal, Nico Reiner, Christian Skilich and Georg Kasperkovitz. During the financial year 2025 the following changes took place within the Managing Board: Walter Bickel withdraw from his position by mutual agreement while Georg Kasperkovitz joined the Managing Board. The division of responsibilities among the members of Lenzing’s Managing Board during the 2025 financial year was as follows:
Rohit Aggarwal (m)1: (1967):
Chairman of the Managing Board, Chief Executive Officer (since September 1, 2024)
First appointed: September 1, 2024
Current term of office ends: January 31, 2026
Responsibilities: Commercial Fibers, Integrated Supply Chain, Sustainability, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations, Human Resources, Strategy and M&A
Supervisory board functions at other companies: None
Management and monitoring functions at major subsidiaries: None
Nico Josef Alois Maria Reiner (m)1: (1969):
Member of the Managing Board, Chief Financial Officer
First appointed: January 1, 2023
Current term of office ends: December 31, 2025
Responsibilities: Corporate Controlling, Corporate Accounting, Corporate Tax, Corporate Treasury, Global Legal, IP & Compliance, Global IT/Digital Innovation, Corporate Audit & Risk, Lenzing Business Services
Supervisory board functions at other companies: None
Management and monitoring functions at major subsidiaries: None
Christian Skilich (m)1: (1968):
Member of the Managing Board, Chief Pulp & Chief Technology Officer
First appointed: June 1, 2020
Current term of office ends: May 31, 2029
Responsibilities: Commercial Pulp, Co-Products & Wood, Operations Pulp, Global Health, Safety & Environment, Global Purchasing, Global Innovation
Supervisory board functions at other companies: Labewood s.r.o. (since January 1, 2021), Stölzle Oberglas GmbH (since November 18, 2021)
Management and monitoring functions at major subsidiaries: LD Celulose S.A.
Georg Kasperkovitz (m)1: (1966):
Member of the Managing Board, Chief Operations Officer (since June 1, 2025)
First appointed: June 1, 2025
Current term of office ends: May 31, 2028
Responsibilities: Operations Fibers, Site Lenzing, Operations Service Group, Value Creation Program
Supervisory board functions at other companies: Board of Directors of SBB AG, Bern, Schweiz (as of May 2016)
Management and monitoring functions at major subsidiaries: None
Walter Bickel (m)1: (1959):
Member of the Managing Board, Chief Transformation Officer (since April 15, 2024)
First appointed: April 15, 2024
Current term of office ends: March 1, 2025
Responsibilities: Operations Service Group, Lenzing Business Service, Value Creation Program
Supervisory board functions at other companies: None
Management and monitoring functions at major subsidiaries: None
Mr. Walter Bickel stepped down from the Managing Board with effect as of March 1, 2025.
The Managing Board directs the business operations of Lenzing AG in accordance with the applicable legal regulations, the articles of association, and the internal rules of procedure for the Managing Board. Business is allocated among the individual members of the Managing Board in accordance with a business distribution plan which is appended to the rules of procedure. The rules of procedure also regulate collaboration within the Managing Board. Furthermore, the Managing Board is required to comply in full with the rules of the Austrian Code of Corporate Governance.
1The members of the Management Board do not belong to minorities; (m) stands for the gender ‘male’