Executive Board¹

Rainer Seele, * 1960

Date of initial appointment: July 1, 2015
End of the current period of tenure: June 30, 2022
Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer

Responsible for the overall management and coordination of the Group

Rainer Seele received his PhD in chemistry at the University of Göttingen and subsequently had senior appointments at the BASF Group where in 2000 he first became a member of the Executive Board and then later chairman of the Executive Board at WINGAS GmbH. From 2009 until 2015, he was chairman of the board of directors of Wintershall Holding GmbH.

Johann Pleininger, * 1962

Date of initial appointment: September 1, 2015
End of the current period of tenure: August 31, 2023
Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board and responsible for the Upstream Business Segment

Chief Upstream Operations Officer

Johann Pleininger started his professional career at OMV in 1977 and later studied mechanical and economic engineering. During his time at OMV, he held various senior positions. From 2007 to 2013, he was an Executive Board member of OMV Petrom in Bucharest, responsible for Exploration & Production. Prior to his appointment as Executive Board member of OMV, he was the Senior Vice President responsible for the core Upstream countries Romania and Austria as well as for the development of the Black Sea region.

Member of the Supervisory Board of FK Austria Wien AG

Reinhard Florey, * 1965

Date of initial appointment: July 1, 2016
End of the current period of tenure: June 30, 2024
Chief Financial Officer

Responsible for Finance

Reinhard Florey graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and economics from the Graz University of Technology while also completing his music studies at the University of Fine Arts. He started his career in corporate consulting and strategy consulting. From 2002 to 2012, he worked in different positions worldwide for Thyssen Krupp AG. Until June 2016, he was CFO and Deputy CEO of Outokumpu Oyj.

Member of the Supervisory Board of Wiener Börse AG

Thomas Gangl, * 1971 ²

Date of initial appointment: July 1, 2019
End of the current period of tenure: June 30, 2022
Executive Board member responsible for Refining & Petrochemical Operations

Chief Downstream Operations Officer

Thomas Gangl began his OMV career in 1998 as a process engineer at the Schwechat refinery after studying process engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and mechanical engineering at the University of Salford (Manchester). In 2011, he became General Manager of OMV Deutschland GmbH and Site Manager in Burghausen. He was appointed Site Manager in Schwechat in 2014 and took over the role of Senior Vice President of the Refining & Petrochemicals Business Unit with responsibility for all three OMV refineries in 2016. On July 1, 2019, Thomas Gangl became the Executive Board member responsible for Refining & Petrochemical Operations.

Elena Skvortsova, * 1970

Date of initial appointment: June 15, 2020
End of the current period of tenure: June 14, 2023
Executive Board member responsible for Marketing & Trading

Chief Commercial Officer

Elena Skvortsova studied at Moscow State Linguistic University and the Thunderbird School of Global Management in the United States. She began her professional career at Bayer in 1994 as an international management trainee; her latest position at Bayer was Associate Director of Bayer Corporation (Healthcare). Starting in 2001, Elena Skvortsova held various leadership positions at Baxter International in the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, and the United Kingdom for 13 years. In 2015, she moved to Linde AG and was responsible for managing the Middle East and Eastern Europe region. From March 2019 to April 2020, following the merger of Linde and Praxair, she was head of Praxair Canada Inc., a 100% subsidiary of Linde plc. Elena Skvortsova has been a member of OMV’s Executive Board since June 15, 2020, and is responsible for the OMV Downstream Marketing & Trading division.

Working practices of the Executive Board

The approval requirements, responsibilities of individual Executive Board members, decision-making procedures, and the approach to conflicts of interest are governed by the Internal Rules of the Executive Board. The Executive Board holds meetings at least every two weeks to exchange information and issue decisions on all matters requiring plenary approval.