A two-tier board with a supervisory board that hires and fires the management board — a genuinely different governance instrument, and the one most often misunderstood by directors trained in a unitary system.
German stock corporations separate management from supervision entirely: the Vorstand runs the company and the Aufsichtsrat appoints, monitors and dismisses it. On co-determined boards, employee representatives occupy a third or half the supervisory seats, elected by the workforce rather than by shareholders. Since the FISG reforms following Wirecard, the audit committee of a public-interest entity must include a member with accounting expertise and another with auditing expertise — a specific, checkable qualification that travels well across borders.
Can a foreign director sit on a board here?
What you have to do
What actually gets in the way
Board composition
Each requirement is stated as arithmetic against the instrument that creates it, with who it binds. Nothing here is characterised as compliance or non-compliance — that is a legal conclusion about a specific company, and it is not ours to draw.
| Requirement | Threshold | Basis | Applies to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervisory board size | Three, or a multiple of three, scaling with share capital and workforce | AktG § 95, MitbestG | Stock corporations (AG) |
| Employee representation | One-third above 500 employees; one-half above 2,000 | DrittelbG; MitbestG 1976 | Co-determined companies |
| Gender composition of the supervisory board | At least 30% women and at least 30% men | AktG § 96(2) | Listed and parity co-determined companies |
| Audit-committee expertise | One member with accounting expertise and one with auditing expertise | AktG § 100(5), introduced by FISG | Public-interest entities |
Independence and tenure
Other tests
What a seat pays
Aktiengesetz (Stock Corporation Act) · § 111
The supervisory board monitors the management board, and certain classes of transaction may be made subject to its consent. It is a supervisory instrument, not an advisory one.
Federal Republic of Germany
Aktiengesetz · § 100(2) and § 100(5)
A person may hold no more than ten supervisory board seats in listed companies. The audit committee of a public-interest entity must include at least one member with expertise in accounting and at least one with expertise in auditing.
Federal Republic of Germany
Mitbestimmungsgesetz 1976 and Drittelbeteiligungsgesetz 2004
Employee representatives occupy half the supervisory board in companies with more than 2,000 employees, and one-third in companies with more than 500. The chair, elected by the shareholder side, holds a casting vote in the parity model.
Federal Republic of Germany
Aktiengesetz · § 96(2)–(3)
The supervisory board of a listed and parity co-determined company must be composed of at least 30% women and at least 30% men. Management boards of such companies with more than three members must include at least one woman and one man.
Federal Republic of Germany
Deutscher Corporate Governance Kodex
Comply-or-explain recommendations on independence, competence profiles, qualification matrices and supervisory-board effectiveness, declared annually under AktG § 161.
Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code
Diversity requirements
How this regime map is maintained
Every requirement on this page is cited to the instrument that creates it, and the review date states when a person last checked it against the primary source. Nothing here is legal advice: rules change, and transitional provisions frequently apply. Verify against the primary instrument before you rely on it.
This regime map was last reviewed against primary sources in August 2026.
The demand thesis
This section is our reading of the market, not a statement of law. It is separated from the rules above for exactly that reason.
Why seats open
How you get in
What this market is short of
Most receptive sectors
Germany feed
The same sourced stream as the central feed, isolated to Germany. Every item cites the authority that made the change.
Directive (EU) 2022/2381 required listed companies to meet its board gender-balance objective by 30 June 2026. The obligation is now live across every member state.
Read the full itemFollowing the FISG reforms, AktG § 100(5) requires the audit committee of a public-interest entity to include at least one member with accounting expertise and at least one with auditing expertise.
Read the full itemLive seats
Statutory board seats, interim leadership and advisory engagements, on one board.
Germany·Public-Interest & Regulated Services
State-linked public-interest and regulated services organisation
As Interim Chief Information Officer of a state-linked organisation in public-interest and regulated services, you would answer to the Group Chief Executive Officer and lead technology for 24 months, including the governance of AI decisions through evidence, override and retirement controls.
Germany·Telecommunications & Technology
Venture-backed telecommunications and technology organisation
Some operating practices deserve to be scaled and others retired, and over 24 months someone has to make those calls and carry them through. In a venture-funded telecommunications and technology business, that work belongs to an interim chief officer for supply chain and operations, who reports to the Country Managing Director.
Germany·Banking & Financial Services
Mid-cap listed banking and financial services organisation
Treat, transfer or exit: every material exposure on the books of a mid-cap listed bank needs one of those labels within 12 months. Applying them falls to an Interim Chief Audit Executive accountable to the Group Chief Executive Officer.
Germany·Property & Real Estate
State-linked property and real estate organisation
The next ownership chapter of a property and real estate group with ties to the state needs a leadership structure built for it. An Interim Group Chief Executive Officer, answering to the Board Chair, will build it over 24 months.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Non-profit business and professional services organisation
Every legal entity should have a clear owner for each decision it takes. Organising entity governance around that principle over 12 months is the job of an Interim Regional Legal Director at a non-profit business and professional services organisation, reporting to the Regional President.
Germany·Telecommunications & Technology
State-linked telecommunications and technology organisation
Every supplier and every site should answer for end-to-end outcomes, not only for its own slice of the work. Making that true across 24 months is the task of an Interim Senior Vice President, Operations, at a state-linked telecommunications and technology organisation, with a line to the Country Managing Director.
Germany·Telecommunications & Technology
Family-owned telecommunications and technology organisation
At the front line, quality, capacity and cost collide, and that is where they should be decided together. A family-owned telecommunications and technology business is giving that job to an Interim Chief Quality and Service Officer for 12 months, with the role answering to the Country Managing Director.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
The interim chief information officer will lead technology integration across a healthcare organisation with multiple operating units. The assignment owns the technology operating plan, delivery priorities and leadership of the IT function within approved budgets. Clinical decisions remain with authorised clinical leaders, and material investment or risk acceptance follows executive and board governance.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Industrial technology organisation in Germany
This director will bring commercial insight to board oversight of incentives, performance measures and growth quality in an industrial technology business. The mandate focuses on whether the organisation's targets encourage profitable, deliverable commitments or reward behaviours that transfer problems into implementation and customer support.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Deep technology and semiconductors organisation in Germany
The director will help the board govern a portfolio of technology initiatives with material cybersecurity implications. The remit includes how new products or capabilities are selected, how their risks are understood and how resources are allocated between innovation and the maintenance of existing commitments. It requires the ability to recognise promising uncertainty without accepting avoidable ambiguity about accountability.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Professional services organisation in Germany
Applicants should have held substantial general-management responsibility in professional services or a closely comparable expertise-led business. Evidence must include direct accountability for commercial performance and delivery quality, not only strategy projects. Candidates should explain how they improved an underperforming service portfolio and managed disagreement among senior professionals.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Restructuring and turnaround organisation in Germany
The interim CRO will lead an industrial recovery in which operating decisions and creditor support must be developed together. The assignment requires a defensible view of liquidity, management's execution capacity and the conditions under which a recovery remains viable.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Candidates need senior cloud or enterprise architecture experience combined with commercial and governance understanding. They should demonstrate the ability to compare alternatives independently of provider preference and to explain tradeoffs to executive audiences. Experience with healthcare systems or similarly sensitive enterprise estates is important.
Germany·Property & Real Estate
Non-profit property and real estate organisation
Integrated, dependable delivery is what a property and real estate organisation run on a non-profit basis now needs, and for 18 months an Interim Group Chief Executive Officer, reporting to the Board Chair, will lead it.
Germany·Consumer & Retail
Retail organisation in Germany
The director will lead an agreed commercial reset across selected retail categories, aligning assortment, supplier arrangements and operating execution. The mandate requires improving the quality of category decisions while maintaining continuity of supply and fair, professional relationships. It is an executive delivery role with accountability for implemented changes and their trading consequences.
Germany·Logistics & Infrastructure
Infrastructure organisation in Germany
The board adviser will translate technology risk into decisions about resilience, investment and assurance. The brief is particularly concerned with dependencies spanning operational assets, enterprise systems, communications and external providers.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
The interim executive will reset a healthcare technology change portfolio so that priorities, delivery capacity and operational readiness are aligned. This role owns the portfolio process and execution of approved reprioritisation decisions. It does not replace clinical leadership, approve changes outside delegation or assume that every existing programme should continue.
Germany·Funds & Asset Management
Large-cap listed funds and asset management organisation
When the board of a large-cap listed funds and asset management group hears from legal, it should hear one judgement covering transactions, disputes and governance. An Interim General Counsel, reporting to the Audit Committee Chair, has 18 months to make that the norm.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Multinational subsidiary — technology and digital platforms organisation
Quality, capacity and cost should be decided together at the front line, says the Regional President of a technology and digital platforms business that belongs to a multinational group, and an interim chief officer for supply chain and operations is being appointed to make that happen within 12 months.
Germany·Banking & Financial Services
Banking organisation in Germany
The director will provide independent oversight of a bank's liquidity position and funding strategy, with attention to the behaviour of funding sources under pressure. The board must understand not only reported ratios and available facilities, but also the assumptions connecting them to practical access to cash.
Germany·Consumer & Retail
Consumer products organisation in Germany
Candidates should have meaningful experience in stressed lending, borrower-side finance or restructuring advice. They need familiarity with consumer-business volatility and the ability to assess both contractual definitions and economic substance. Evidence should include a negotiation where a technically possible concession was rejected because its wider effects were unacceptable.
Germany·Energy & Utilities
Multinational subsidiary — energy and utility services organisation
Architecture choices that reduce dependency while delivery carries on are the 24-month task for an Interim Chief Technology Officer. The seat is in an energy and utility services operation within a multinational group, and it reports to the Regional President.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Professional services organisation in Germany
Applicants should bring experience designing or managing an expertise-led service portfolio and following its commercial results. They must demonstrate how client evidence changed an initial proposition and how delivery economics affected the final choice. Strong candidates understand the cultural implications of retiring a service associated with an influential professional.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Industrial technology organisation in Germany
This board appointment requires commercial judgement about digital products sold into industrial environments. The director will challenge how proposed offerings solve operational problems, generate repeatable revenue and remain supportable over the life of the equipment or process they serve. Technical novelty is not sufficient evidence of customer value.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
An enterprise board seeks a director whose technology leadership experience can strengthen oversight of acquisitions and post-deal integration. The appointment is a formal board role with collective responsibilities. The director will assess strategic and execution implications, while transaction negotiation and programme delivery remain executive functions.
Germany·Banking & Financial Services
Private-equity-backed banking and financial services organisation
Turning control findings into a sequenced remediation agenda over 24 months is the mandate for an Interim Regional Risk Director at a bank backed by private equity; the Group Chief Executive Officer is the person this director reports to.
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
Industrial business organisation in Germany
This seat calls for a director able to work effectively in a capital structure shaped by a debt-for-equity restructuring. Nomination by a lender does not make the director a private instruction channel; the appointment requires clear boundaries around duties, confidentiality, conflicts and information sharing, confirmed for the entity concerned.
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing organisation in Germany
Candidates need substantial responsibility for a completed financial restructuring involving manufacturing operations. Relevant evidence includes managing complex creditor interests, evaluating debt and equity solutions, and preserving essential operating expenditure under pressure. Familiarity with German business practice and the judgement to involve appropriately qualified local advisers are important; this appointment does not substitute for legal advice.
Germany·Telecommunications & Technology
Non-profit telecommunications and technology organisation
Dependable service comes first and further growth in volume waits: that is the order the Interim Regional Operations Director will hold for 18 months at a non-profit telecommunications and technology organisation. The role answers to the Country Managing Director.
Germany·Logistics & Infrastructure
Transport and operational technology organisation in Germany
Lead the creation of reliable operational visibility across technology supporting infrastructure services. The objective is to connect technical signals with the functioning of the service, so that teams can detect meaningful degradation before it becomes a wider operational interruption. More telemetry is useful only when somebody can interpret and act on it.
Germany·Funds & Asset Management
Independent private funds and asset management organisation
Which commitments stay affordable if the downside case arrives? An Interim Country Head of Finance, answerable to the Group Chief Financial Officer, has 12 months to settle it for an independent, privately held funds and asset management firm.
Germany·Public-Interest & Regulated Services
Non-profit public-interest and regulated services organisation
Cyber resilience, operating priorities and customer priorities have to be weighed together rather than in turn. For 24 months that weighing falls to an Interim Chief Digital and Data Officer at a not-for-profit organisation in public-interest and regulated services, who will report to the Technology Committee Chair.
Germany·Consumer & Retail
Multinational subsidiary — consumer, retail and distribution organisation
Dependable delivery against plan, held over 18 months, is how an Interim Chief Business Officer will be measured. The officer reports to the Investment Committee; the organisation is the consumer, retail and distribution subsidiary of a multinational group.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Restructuring and turnaround organisation in Germany
This appointment requires a director who understands creditor perspectives without confusing nomination with an instruction to act solely for a nominating party. The seat brings restructuring and industrial judgement to decisions about recovery, capital and management capability.
Germany·Energy & Utilities
Private-equity-backed energy and utility services organisation
Firmer cash and performance discipline, in place before the next planning cycle begins, is the 12-month task of an Interim Chief Financial Officer who reports to the Group Chief Financial Officer of a private-equity-owned energy and utility services business.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Technology-enabled businesses and digital platforms
A company is moving from project-led technology delivery to a product operating model. The supervisory board needs stronger challenge of engineering investment, organisational readiness and the relationship between digital product development and commercial performance.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Industrial technology organisation in Germany
The director will bring independent oversight to the commercial architecture through which industrial technology reaches customers. Distributors, integrators and service partners can extend market access while also creating dependencies that weaken margin, customer insight or accountability. The board needs a clear understanding of those trade-offs before growth commitments are made.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Completion will be demonstrated by functioning independent services, accepted ownership and a controlled exit from transitional arrangements. The handover must identify remaining dependencies, ongoing costs and unresolved risks clearly enough that permanent leaders can manage them without relying on the interim director's personal knowledge or informal relationships.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Professional services organisation in Germany
This advisory engagement will examine how a leadership team converts strategy into coordinated decisions across different businesses. The focus is the work of the team: what it decides collectively, how disagreement is resolved and how commitments are followed through. The advisor must move beyond interpersonal impressions to establish whether executive routines support the enterprise's priorities.
Germany·Tourism, Hospitality & Entertainment
Venture-backed tourism and hospitality organisation
Where should the business compete, and where should it step back? For 12 months, an Advisory Chair will counsel the Group Chief Executive Officer of a venture-funded tourism and hospitality business on exactly that question.
Germany·Agribusiness & Food
Agricultural commodities organisation in Germany
Candidates should have senior leadership experience in agricultural processing, food ingredients or another relevant variable-input manufacturing environment. They need direct responsibility for production performance and a record of working constructively with technical specialists. Experience improving yield or reliability must be supported by evidence that product quality and workforce safety were maintained.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Organisational recovery organisation in Germany
The interim managing director will lead a business unit requiring a clearer operating direction and a credible route to improved performance. The mandate includes the approved profit and cash plan, customer delivery and management-team effectiveness. It requires determining what the unit can control and obtaining decisions on constraints that sit elsewhere in the enterprise.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
The final pack will include a classified application portfolio, option comparisons, a dependency map and a recommended sequence of decisions. Cost estimates should distinguish cash savings, avoided future expenditure and capacity released for other work. Benefits that depend on process change must identify the responsible business owner.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Candidates need senior enterprise technology leadership experience, including integration or transformation across multiple operating units. Healthcare systems exposure is relevant where it demonstrates judgement about sensitive information, workflow continuity and specialist stakeholder accountability. Broader commercial understanding is necessary to contribute to the whole board agenda.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Handover will include accountable data owners, operating procedures for priority flows, quality measures and a funded improvement backlog. Success means that the organisation can explain where important information comes from, identify when it is unreliable and resolve problems through established responsibilities. The interim director should leave sustainable governance embedded in business activity rather than a separate committee structure with little authority over actual decisions.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Cooperative or mutual technology and digital platforms organisation
Every end-to-end outcome at this member-owned technology and digital platforms organisation needs one clear answer to the question of which supplier or site is accountable. An Interim Senior Vice President, Operations will settle it within 12 months, with a direct line to the Group Chief Executive Officer.
Germany·Energy & Utilities
Cooperative or mutual energy and utility services organisation
Within 18 months, every regional forecast line at a cooperatively run energy and utility services business should have someone standing behind it, and the person charged with that is an Interim Regional Finance & Capital Director who answers to the Group Chief Financial Officer.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Deep technology and semiconductors organisation in Germany
The adviser will assess the product strategy for a hardware-enabled security capability. The assignment is to connect technical differentiation with a credible customer problem, deployment model and commercial proposition. It should help leadership decide where to focus, what evidence to build and which opportunities require capabilities the business does not yet possess.
Germany·Consumer & Retail
Mid-cap listed consumer, retail and distribution organisation
For 12 months, the Board Strategy Committee of a mid-cap listed company in consumer goods, retail and distribution will rely on an Interim Chief Integration Officer, who reports to it, to keep the deal thesis, the integration work and operating continuity joined up.
Germany·Consumer & Retail
Retail organisation in Germany
Applicants should demonstrate deep retail pricing or commercial leadership with evidence of implemented price strategies. They should explain a case where data suggested one response but customer or operational evidence led to another. Strong candidates understand category economics and can communicate trade-offs without concealing them inside a complex model.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
State-linked business and professional services organisation
Trust, and clear consequences for performance, held together rather than traded off: for 24 months that is the mandate of an Interim Group Chief People Officer at a state-linked firm in business and professional services, who reports to the Board Chair.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Candidates should have led complex system consolidation in healthcare or another critical-service setting. They need experience in data migration, integration governance and operational service management. Familiarity with German working environments is relevant, together with the ability to coordinate specialist privacy, security and workforce advice.
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
Multinational subsidiary — industrial manufacturing organisation
Some operating practices should be scaled and others left where they are, and telling them apart is the question. Over a 24-month horizon an Advisory Director will counsel the Country Managing Director of an industrial manufacturer that belongs to a multinational group.
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
German Mittelstand manufacturer under lender pressure
Lenders have required an independent operating executive in the business before agreeing a standstill. The supervisory board needs someone who can hold both the operational plan and the lender relationship.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Audit and financial reporting organisation in Germany
The director will strengthen board scrutiny of commercial controls in a business-services enterprise. The seat focuses on how bids, contracts, delivery and financial reporting interact, particularly where local commercial discretion can create obligations that become visible only later. It carries collective director responsibilities and does not involve approving ordinary customer contracts.
Germany·Tourism, Hospitality & Entertainment
State-linked tourism and hospitality organisation
The Interim Country Managing Director we are looking for will spend 12 months building a growth plan grounded in realistic operating constraints, and then leading the country to it. The organisation is state-linked and works in tourism and hospitality; the post reports into the Group Chief Executive Officer.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Industrial technology organisation in Germany
The director will oversee the commercial and strategic implications of products that remain digitally connected after sale. These offerings can deepen customer value, but they also create continuing obligations for support, security, compatibility and responsible product retirement. The board requires a view of those obligations that extends beyond the initial sales case.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Business transformation organisation in Germany
The lead will establish and run the decision and dependency process for a complex transformation. The mandate is to reduce avoidable delay caused by unclear authority, incompatible plans and unresolved choices. It is an operational programme role, requiring the lead to secure decisions and coordinate their consequences rather than merely maintain a register.
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing and consumer durables
A leveraged industrial group faces weakening cash conversion, an uneven plant footprint and declining lender confidence. The CRO will establish a credible liquidity position and coordinate a deliverable restructuring plan across operations, finance and shareholders.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Business transformation organisation in Germany
The manager will lead recovery of a business and technology programme where scope, progress or delivery confidence needs to be reset. The assignment is to establish the facts, agree the necessary choices and restore controlled execution. It requires honesty about what remains possible without assuming that recovery always means delivering the original plan on the original date.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Outputs will include material findings, an indicative integration approach, cost ranges with assumptions and issues requiring protection or further diligence. A concise executive narrative should explain which findings affect price, conditions, timing or the post-completion plan. Qualified advisers retain responsibility for translating findings into contractual provisions.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Business transformation organisation in Germany
The director will strengthen oversight of investment in business and technology programmes. The role focuses on the relationship between expenditure, delivered capability and realised benefit. It requires practical delivery insight and financial literacy, with the judgement to distinguish an uncertain forecast from an investment case that lacks a credible mechanism for value.
Germany·Agribusiness & Food
Commodity trading organisations modernising business systems
A commodity merchant is changing its core trading and operations systems and needs clear business requirements, effective user testing and adoption across teams. The transformation lead will connect the technology programme with the way trades are executed, controlled and settled.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Candidates need senior experience connecting enterprise technology investments with governance and operating change. They should understand AI capabilities and limitations well enough to assess claims critically, supported by experience in sensitive or regulated information environments. Healthcare systems exposure is useful where it demonstrates respect for distinct professional decision rights.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Business transformation organisation in Germany
The lead will establish an executable portfolio of business and technology change. The assignment addresses the situation in which individual initiatives appear justified but collectively exceed available capacity or depend on incompatible sequencing. It requires practical authority over the portfolio process and the ability to bring difficult choices to decision-makers.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Applicants should demonstrate experience recovering complex enterprise IT services across organisational boundaries. Healthcare environments are relevant where service disruption affects sensitive workflows, but the role requires broad executive judgement beyond incident management. Evidence should include resolving supplier disputes, rebuilding team accountability and presenting realistic recovery choices to senior leadership.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Candidates require senior enterprise technology leadership or operating-model advisory experience. They should demonstrate an ability to resolve organisational ambiguity, facilitate difficult conversations and distinguish governance problems from capability or resourcing gaps. Healthcare consolidation exposure is valuable when it provides practical understanding of distributed operational ownership.
Germany·Industrial Manufacturing
Frankfurt-listed industrial group, parity co-determined
The audit committee must satisfy AktG § 100(5) with one member holding accounting expertise and another holding auditing expertise. The board holds the first and not the second, and the supervisory board's gender arithmetic under § 96(2) constrains who the next appointment can be.
Germany·Public-Interest & Regulated Services
Public-service technology organisation in Germany
The interim CIO will lead a transition toward shared technology services while preserving accountable service ownership. The mandate requires resolving differences in demand, funding and operating expectations before they become disputes inside the new arrangement.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Deep technology and semiconductors organisation in Germany
The adviser will evaluate market priorities for an embedded cybersecurity capability. The assignment compares customer needs, integration burdens and routes to commercial value across potential applications. Its purpose is to focus scarce engineering and commercial resources on opportunities supported by evidence, rather than a long list of sectors in which security is important.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Board succession and governance organisation in Germany
This director will help the board examine the relationship between executive performance, role design and organisational accountability. Repeated disappointment in senior appointments may reflect weak selection, but it can also arise from conflicting expectations, fragmented authority or responsibilities that no individual can realistically discharge.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
An enterprise board seeks a director who can connect technology and cyber risk with operational resilience, investment and management accountability. This is a formal director appointment with responsibility for the wider board agenda. The director will provide oversight and challenge, without operating the security function or directing incident responders.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
Applicants should demonstrate experience managing enterprise technology suppliers and delivering sustainable cost improvements. They need enough understanding of applications, hosting and support models to challenge both vendor claims and internal assumptions. Experience in complex healthcare or multi-unit enterprise environments is valuable.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Software engineering organisation in Germany
This director will help the board assess whether product ambitions are supported by a viable engineering and economic model. The remit combines oversight of delivery capability, technical investment and the cost of supporting products after launch. It is a board appointment for someone who can make engineering trade-offs understandable without reducing them to simplistic productivity measures.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Software engineering organisation in Germany
The adviser will evaluate opportunities to consolidate overlapping software platforms while preserving the capabilities customers actually use. The work must distinguish desirable standardisation from a migration whose cost and disruption outweigh the benefits. It should give leadership a clear set of choices, including the option to retain differences where the economics support them.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Board succession and governance organisation in Germany
This is a board appointment within the business-services sector for a director able to scrutinise the governance of executive search and leadership advisory work. The remit concerns conflicts, quality, confidentiality and sustainable commercial performance in a business where reputation depends on how sensitive judgements and relationships are handled.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Industrial technology organisation in Germany
This director will bring industrial technology and enterprise-market expertise to the oversight of acquisitions and their integration. The focus is whether the strategic rationale can become a practical commercial result without destroying product capability, customer trust or the specialist knowledge that made the investment attractive.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Enterprise technology and AI organisation in Germany
The director will bring industrial cyber-risk judgement to a board responsible for operations that depend on connected equipment and production systems. The seat requires understanding how technology decisions affect continuity, product quality, workforce safety and economic performance. The director shares collective governance responsibility and will work alongside, rather than replace, management and specialist assurance.
Germany·Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare technology organisation in Germany
A healthcare enterprise seeks a supervisory board member to strengthen oversight of technology investment and integration. This is a formal supervisory appointment with collective governance responsibilities. The member will challenge management's plans and monitor execution while remaining outside executive delivery and clinical decision-making.
Germany·Business Services & Diversified
Business transformation organisation in Germany
The lead will coordinate the alignment of business processes with a technology implementation. The assignment ensures that decisions about roles, information and exceptions are made explicitly rather than embedded accidentally in system configuration. It requires operational analysis and delivery leadership across business and technical teams.
Germany·Technology & Digital Platforms
Enterprise technology and AI organisation in Germany
The executive director will lead technology integration across acquired or combined operations, with accountability for service continuity, delivery priorities and the approved investment plan. The assignment requires deciding which systems and capabilities should converge, which should remain separate and what must be understood before irreversible changes are made.
Germany·Logistics & Infrastructure
Transport and operational technology organisation in Germany
The role requires leadership of technology in a physical operating environment, with practical understanding of control-system dependencies and round-the-clock support. Candidates should demonstrate how they have balanced throughput, maintainability and operational risk when those priorities conflicted.
Mobility corridors
A corridor is a directional pair of markets between which experience is genuinely legible — and every one of them carries a friction, because a corridor with nothing to bridge would be a corridor nobody had thought about.
Both operate two-tier structures with employee involvement and codified independence, and Dutch supervisory board experience is the closest available analogue to a German Aufsichtsrat seat.
Friction — German co-determined boards work in German, and the ten-seat cap under AktG § 100(2) constrains a director already carrying a European portfolio.
Shared language across much of Swiss business, adjacent industrial and pharmaceutical economies, and Swiss boards that routinely include German directors.
Friction — Swiss annual individual election exposes each director to a public vote every year, which is a materially different accountability model from a German supervisory term.
Adjacent industrial economies with deeply intertwined ownership, a shared EU regulatory floor and a large population of Franco-German groups and Societas Europaea structures whose boards already operate across the border.
Friction — France runs a unitary board with employee directors; Germany runs a two-tier supervisory board with co-determination. The two look similar from outside and behave very differently in the room.
The same two-tier architecture, the same language, the same empty-chair gender sanction and closely related company law. It is the shortest corridor in European governance.
Friction — Austrian boards are smaller, employee delegation is one third rather than up to one half, and fees are materially lower — so it is a step sideways in capability and down in economics.
Two-tier supervisory structures on both sides, deep industrial supply-chain integration, and many German groups with Polish subsidiaries and regional headquarters.
Friction — Poland's independence test disqualifies anyone connected to a five per cent shareholder, which is stricter than the German test and catches candidates who are independent in Frankfurt.
Questions
A German AG has two boards. The Vorstand manages the company; the Aufsichtsrat appoints, monitors and can dismiss the Vorstand, and can make defined transactions subject to its consent. A supervisory board member does not manage, and the separation is legal rather than cultural.
Yes. There is no nationality or residency test. The real constraints are language — co-determined boards work in German because the employee representatives do — and the ten-seat cap under AktG § 100(2).
Employee representatives hold one-third of supervisory seats in companies above 500 employees and half above 2,000. On a parity board the chair, elected by the shareholder side, holds a casting vote. It changes what the board discusses, how it is minuted, and in which language.
ID Exchange of Germany
The mobility index scores it against your own record across four named components — corridor strength, legal openness, what this market is short of, and the language its boards work in — and tells you plainly when the answer is no.