Prof. Schlottke has been supervisory board member since 2000 and deputy chairman since 2005. His career began at IBM Germany and he later switched to Siemens AG, where he was based in the group’s headquarters responsible for IT sales and product planning for the banking, trade and insurance sectors. From this position he moved to the board of directors of a large German insurance company. At present he is an economic advisor for information and communication technology and, at the same time, chairman of the board of directors of the business customer advisory body of Deutsche Telekom and a member of several supervisory boards of companies in the information and communications industry.