The Supervisory Board of RWE AG appointed Dr. Rolf Martin Schmitz as the new Chairman of the Executive Board of the company as of October 15, 2016. As established beforehand, Peter Terium and Dr. Bernhard Günther had resigned from their respective offices on the Executive Board of the company after the IPO of innogy. To ensure planning security for the group's restructuring and, in particular, for the generation and trading divisions and their personnel, the Supervisory Board had decided as early as April to appoint Rolf Martin Schmitz to the Executive Board of the company until June 30, 2021. Uwe Tigges will be the Chief HR Officer of both the company until April 30, 2017, after which he will dedicate himself entirely to his position at innogy SE.