Alongside CEO Dr Egbert Laege, Jan-Martin Nufer will assume responsibility for the company’s management and lead SEFE’s finance function. With Nufer, SEFE gains an internationally experienced financial executive with extensive expertise in capital market transactions, corporate finance, risk management and transformation processes, who will support SEFE during an important phase of its further strategic development.
Most recently, he served as CFO of Borouge, a publicly listed petrochemicals company based in Abu Dhabi. Over the course of his career, Nufer worked across a range of industries, including petrochemicals and energy, telecommunications, aviation, consulting and banking, and led projects worldwide. He held senior leadership positions at Borealis, Swiss International Air Lines, Babcock & Brown and ONE. Prior to that, Nufer worked at VIAG and BayernLB.
Reinhard Gorenflos, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SEEHG Securing Energy for Europe Holding: “Jan-Martin Nufer brings outstanding expertise in financing, risk management and strategic corporate leadership. With his international experience and proven capital markets expertise, he will make an important contribution to further strengthening SEFE’s financial resilience and operational capabilities.”
Dr Egbert Laege, CEO of SEFE: “SEFE is already very well positioned strategically, structurally and financially. With Jan-Martin Nufer, we are now gaining a seasoned finance executive who brings exactly the expertise we need for our next phase of development. His broad range of experience across all relevant areas will play an important role in delivering our strategic objectives and successfully advancing the privatisation of the company. I am very much looking forward to working closely with him as we continue this journey.”
Jan-Martin Nufer, designated Managing Director and CFO of SEFE: “Recent years have shown what SEFE is capable of achieving. The company has successfully undergone an extraordinary transformation and is now in a very strong position. I’m excited by the unique and challenging opportunity to help shape the forthcoming reprivatisation and thereby open a new chapter in SEFE’s development.”