Katharina Beumelburg, Member of the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz Group AG.
Supervisory Board

Dr Katharina Beumelburg.

Munich. Supervisory Board Mercedes-Benz Group AG – Shareholder Representative. Member of the Legal Affairs Committee. Chief Sustainability & New Technologies Officer and Member of the Board of Management at Heidelberg Materials AG.

Elected until: 2030. First elected: 2026. Nationality: German.

Dr Beumelburg was born in 1976 in Siegen (Germany). She studied industrial engineering at the University of Siegen and in the US, and mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart, where she also completed her doctoral studies in robotics and automation. In addition, she honed her expertise on international executive programmes at leading US universities, focusing on transformational leadership, energy innovation and sustainability.

Dr Beumelburg began her career in 2000 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart.

In 2005 she moved to Siemens AG. After positions at Siemens Management Consulting and leading Siemens Process & Production Consulting, further leadership positions within the Siemens organization followed, including responsibility for Business Excellence at Siemens AG and leading Siemens Hydrogen Solutions – including a mandate on the board of management of Hydrogen Europe – as well as roles in strategy and business development for the Siemens Gas and Power division. In 2020, Dr Beumelburg took on the role of CEO for Transmission Services at Siemens Energy.

In 2021, she moved to the oil and gas industry. She became Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer on the Executive Management Team of SLB (formerly Schlumberger). Here she was responsible for global strategy, communications and marketing, including comprehensive rebranding, and developed the sustainability strategy with its key initiatives for the energy transition.

Since 2024, she has been Chief Sustainability & New Technologies Officer as well as member of the Board of Management of Heidelberg Materials AG. In this role, she is responsible for the worldwide decarbonisation of the company’s own operations and products, innovation and R&D, global product management and sales for sustainable products as well as ESG.

Dr Beumelburg has been involved in strategic and academic bodies for many years now, including on the Advisory Board of the TUM School of Management as well as in various initiatives of the World Economic Forum.

Dr Katharina Beumelburg is a member of the following further legally mandatory supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies:

  • Mercedes-Benz AG (group mandae)
Mercedes-Benz EQS model year 2024.

Supervisory Board.

The Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz Group AG consists of twenty members, of whom ten are elected by the shareholders and ten are representatives of the employees.