Sartorius Stedim Biotech S.A. at its AGM held on March 26, 2019, elected two new members to the Board of Directors for a three-year term, Pascale Boissel and René Fáber. They will now succeed Liliane de Lassus and Bernard Lemaître, who are leaving the Board on the grounds of age limits. René Fáber has been working for Sartorius since 2002. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Executive Board of Sartorius AG as Head of the Bioprocess Solutions Division. Mr. Fáber started as an R&D Scientist in the Membrane Modification Department, then headed R&D Process Technologies. Pascale Boissel is a specialist in finance, corporate structuring and operations with an experience of 25 years. She assists biotech companies using her expertise in the field of fast-growing healthcare innovation activities. Ms. Boissel previously held the position of Deputy CEO and Head of Finance at the Technology Research Institute BIOASTER, an independent non-profit organization that develops collaborative research programs in the fields of infectious disease and microbiology.

At it´s Annual General Shareholders' Meeting passed the resolution to pay a dividend of €0.57 per share for fiscal 2018. The previous year's dividend was €0.46 per share. The total profit distributed will therefore rise by 23.9% from €42.4 million to €52.5 million. The corresponding dividend payout ratio is 24.0% compared with 23.5% in the previous year.