Eon energy manager Michael Lewis will take up his new post as CEO of the nationalized energy group Uniper on July 1. Uniper announced this today in Düsseldorf. This ends a four-month vacancy in this post. The previous CEO, Klaus-Dieter Maubach, left the company at the end of February.

Energy manager Lewis (55) has been CEO of Eon UK since 2017. The companies involved had already announced their move to Uniper on March 1.

Uniper is Germany's largest gas wholesaler and is considered systemically important. Among others, around 500 municipal utilities and 400 major industrial customers are supplied. Until the summer of last year, a large part of Russian gas imports to Germany went through Uniper. After the deliveries stopped, Uniper stumbled due to the high costs of procuring replacements and had to be rescued by the federal government.

Even more personnel decisions

Uniper announced further changes in the board of directors. Accordingly, commercial manager Niek den Hollander will leave the company at the end of July at his own request. Carsten Poppinga will succeed him as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) on October 1st. The mathematician is currently in charge of European and US energy trading at the energy trading company Statkraft Markets in Düsseldorf, a subsidiary of the Norwegian company Statkraft.

Uniper Supervisory Board Chairman Tom Blades thanked the Dutchman for his work, especially in the crisis year 2022. "Not least thanks to him for the quick procurement of replacement gas after the Russian supply stop last summer," Blades was quoted as saying.