Susanne Wiegand

Susanne Wiegand is an experienced leader with more than 20 years of experience in senior positions in international listed and family-owned companies in the defense industry and in mechanical and plant engineering (shipbuilding). After studying business administration at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, she worked for several years as a management consultant for large industrial companies before joining Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, Hamburg, in 2005 as Senior Vice President with responsibility for strategy, business development, and M&A. In 2007, she was appointed to the management board of Nobiskrug Werft, Rendsburg. She subsequently also took over the management of German Naval Yards Kiel GmbH and Lindenau Werft GmbH, Kiel. From 2018 to 2021, she was a member of the Executive Board Defence of Rheinmetall AG and CEO of the group's Electronic Solutions division. From 2021 to 2025, she was CEO of RENK Group AG, an MDAX-listed, world-leading manufacturer of tank transmissions and mission-critical military drive solutions, which she successfully floated on the stock exchange in 2024. Since stepping down from RENK Group AG at the beginning of 2025, Susanne Wiegand has devoted herself to other roles in the context of security and defense and is involved, among other things, as an investor in several defense startups, as a supervisory board member of Volkswagen AG (DAX), Brenntag SE (DAX),  CSG N.V. and BWI GmbH (IT for the German Armed Forces), and as a board member of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP e.V.).