The Executive Board of RWE AG expanded the management team of RWE Supply & Trading at the start of 2024. Jacob Meins (51) joined the company's Executive Board as Chief Commercial Officer (Origination) on 1 January 2024.
Meins, a long-standing RWE manager, will assume responsibility for the Gas Portfolio Management, Gas Origination and LNG divisions as well as Energy Transition Investments, Biofuels and Dry Bulk & Structured Origination. He has worked in energy trading at RWE for 17 years and joined RWE Supply & Trading in 2006 as Head of Structured Origination. Meins started his career at Enron in 2000 before moving to Barclays Capital.
Further personnel changes on the horizon
In March of this year, there will be further changes in the boardroom: Andree Stracke (55), Chief Executive Officer of the company, has decided to end his career at RWE at the end of February 2024 after 24 years. He will be succeeded as CEO on 1 March 2024 by Peter Krembel (55), previously Chief Commercial Officer (Trading); Krembel will remain responsible for the trading business in his new role as CEO.
Andree Stracke has been with RWE Supply & Trading since 1999 and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2015. As a man of the first hour, he helped build up RWE's energy trading business and drove the global gas business in particular. Peter Krembel was also part of the founding team in 1999 and was largely responsible for the development of global electricity, gas and commodity trading; he has been a member of the Executive Board since 2015. Gunhild Grieve, Chief Financial Officer, and Ulf Kerstin, Chief Commercial Officer (Commercial Asset Optimisation), remain members of the Executive Board of RWE Supply Trading.
