Corporate Governance

Robert Wirth, Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Robert Wirth has been a Member of the EQS Supervisory Board since June 2015.

The media marketing specialist has worked for the EQS Group AG from 2000-2014, since 2007 as a member of the two-person Executive Board. Robert Wirth was instrumental in the implementation the company’s IPO. At the end of 2014, he left his position on the EQS for personal reasons at his own request.

Robert Wirth began his career in the television industry. He trained as a television editor at Franken Fernsehen and later headed numerous divisions. After his time as the founding editor at RTL Nürnberg, he built one of the most successful German regional channels, Oberpfalz TV in Amberg, in his capacity as program director and Editor-in-Chief.

Laurenz Nienaber, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Laurenz Nienaber has been a member of the Supervisory Board of EQS Group AG since 2018.

The enthusiastic value investor has been general manager of LMP Capital GmbH since 2019.

Laurenz Nienaber began his career with the KfW-Bankengruppe as a dual student in Business Information Systems. In addition, he completed various internships in asset management and worked as a consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In 2015, he received his Master of Science in Finance and Investment from the Rotterdam School of Management. In 2018 he was a member of the supervisory board of Alarmforce Industries Inc. in Toronto, Canada. He has been a member of the management of BNS – Business Network Solutions GmbH since 2016.

Prof. Kerstin Lopatta, Member of the Supervisory Board

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lopatta is Chair Professor of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability at the School of Business, Economics and Social Science of the University of Hamburg and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. She has worked as an auditor at a Big 4 audit company and has completed several international research stays including City University Hong Kong and New York University’s Stern School of Business. In her research, she investigates empirically the effects of environmental, social, and governance factors on business and society. She also analyzes the impact of financial accounting regulations on business decisions. Finally, she covers corporate governance topics such as board structure and diversity. Kerstin Lopatta serves on the management committee of the Sustainable Finance Research Platform and is a director of the Global Research Alliance of Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI). She has a passion for sports.

Rony Vogel, Member of the Supervisory Board

The graduate engineer in electrical engineering with an MBA from Reutlingen University has been an entrepreneur and investor for over 20 years.

As commercial managing director from 1992 -1995, he managed the company TRW Benesov near Prague since its foundation up to a size of 600 employees. He is co-founder of an Internet Screenphones start-up financed by Siemens AG in 1997. In 1999, he founded the Business Angel Network “venture24”. He brought the latter into Firstream AG in 2000. Already at this time, Rony Vogel financed and developed a number of start-up companies and participated in their foundation, including EQS Group AG. Until his first exit in 2002, he was a board member of the “Firstream venture24 AG” incubator, which he co-founded.

Since 2003, Rony Vogel has been an active investor and entrepreneur in the software and technology sector. To date, he has made financial and entrepreneurial commitments to over 20 companies, including

He is a passionate pilot and South Africa fan.

Catharina van Delden, Member of the Supervisory Board

Catharina van Delden is a digital entrepreneur; co-founder of the innovation management software company innosabi, which she led from a student start-up at the Technical University of Munich to a market leader as CEO. Catharina is an MBA graduate from the Technical University of Munich and has temporarily studied at UC Berkeley. Before founding innosabi GmbH, she worked at OSRAM, including at OSRAM India in Delhi. In addition, she has published two books on innovation strategies, “Crowdsourced Innovation” and “Connect the dots”. Catharina is and was active in various advisory and political functions, for example, in the supervisory board of sto SE & Co. KGaA on the advisory board of Deutsche Bank, on the advisory board of the Start Ups Laya.AI and cavago, or on the bitkom executive committee for over eight years. Catharina has received numerous prizes in the course of her career, most recently the “TU Munich Entrepreneur of Excellence” or the “Spark Female Founder Award” from McKinsey and the Handelsblatt.