Werner Baumann - Bayer AG Executive

Mr. Werner Baumann has served as Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bayer Aktiengesellschaft since May 1, 2016. Previously he served as Member of the Management Board, Strategy and Portfolio Management, EuropeMiddle EastAfrica Region at Bayer AG from January 1, 2016 till April 30, 2016. After studying economics at RWTH Aachen Universitaet and the University of Cologne, he joined Bayer in 1988. His first duties were in the Corporationrationrate Finance Department in Leverkusen. In 1991 he transferred to Bayer Hispania Comercial in Barcelona, Spain, to take up a position as controller, becoming assistant to the managing director in 1995. A year later, Baumann moved to Bayer Corporation in Tarrytown, New York, latterly heading up the global Business Planning Administration organization of the Diagnostics Business Group. In July 2002, Baumann returned to Germany to become a member of the Executive Committee and Head of Central Administration Organization at Bayer HealthCare. In October 2003 he was appointed a member of the Board of Management of the newly formed subgroup Bayer HealthCare AG, also serving as the company Labor Director. As a member of the Board of Management and Labor Director of Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Berlin, Germany, from 2006 through September 2009, he actively participated in this company integration into the subgroup. Prior to October 1, 2014, he served as Bayer AGs Chief Financial Officer . since 2016.