Dr. Bernd Hoegemann

• Strategic and Operational P&L Leadership of a Business Area (comprising of the 3 Business Units Oil & Mining Services, Functional Minerals and Additives with a 2021 reported top line of c. CHF 1.7bn, c. 3700 employees and a reported EBITDA of c. 18%). BU Additives: Start of large scale CAPEX project for DEPAL Flame Retardants in China to strengthen BU Additives footprint; BU Functional Minderrals: Acquisition of BASF’s US-based Attapulgite business for an all cash consideration of USD 60mn to strengthen BU Functional Minerals Norh America footprint, closed in 11/2022; • Carve Out, Execution of Growth and Performance Improvement program and subsequent Divestment of BU Pigments with closing of transaction in January 2022 at a 10.7x adjusted LTM EBITDA to a Private Equity investor • Corporate Planning and Strategy: Development of Purpose-led Strategy for continued Operations in preparation of Capital Market Day in November 2021 • Project Clariant: Design of New Operating Model for continued Operations

• Carve Out, Execution of Growth and Performance Improvement program and subsequent Divestment of BU Masterbatches with closing of divestment of BL Healthcare Packaging in Oct 2019 at 13.2x FY 2018 EBITDA Multiple and of BL Masterbatches in July 2020 at 12.2x LTM EBITDA

Responsible for Clariant‘s multi-year strategy and annual performance cycle, including development of BU-, Regional and Corporate Strategy, Member of the Clariant Corporate Deal Team

Planning and Execution of Group-driven Continues Improvement program and end-to-end value stream re-design and transformation; achievement of CHF 100mn annual cost take out (audited), supported by a team of c. 100 FTEs across all work streams Core Achievements: • Build up of Clariant Production System (CPS) and roll out across all Clariant sites • Build up and roll out of Clariant People Excellence (Global Leadership and Functional Skill Curriculum, including cultural transformation programs) • Build up of Clariant Business Excellence (comprising of Innovation and Commercial Excellence, Clariant Production System, Supply Chain and Procurement Excellence); adaptation to each Business Unit and roll out across all Businesses

Responsibility for building up the talent pipeline and succession candidates for the Top 300 positions in Clariant - including responsibility for internal Talent Management System, High Potential and Senior Management Development.

Responsibility for Continuous Improvement Activities of various Business Units and Regions. Responsibility for conceptualizing Company Academy for General Management, Change Management and Functional Skills Capability Building and Organizational Learning.

Senior Project Manager for Management Diagnostics Projects in Multinational Companies.

Consultancy in Risk Advisory, Strategy and Restructuring Projects in parallel to PhD thesis on Due Diligence and Acquisition in Private Equity environment.

Consultancy on Strategy and Restructuring Projects in Health Care Market.