MET Group has appointed Sven Kirch as its new group chief financial officer.
In his new role Kirch will support MET Group’s intensive growth strategy for the upcoming years and he will also become a member of the executive board and the board of directors of MET Holding.
He joins the company from Royal Dutch Shell where he worked for over 16 years in senior finance management roles.
Kirch’s latest role was as vice president finance for planning/appraisal/reporting and the controller for Shell’s integrated gas, renewables and energies solutions business which includes Shell’s global LNG and gas and power trading franchises.
Over the course of his career, he built broad and deep finance competences across capital management related processes such as strategy, portfolio/planning and mergers and acquisitions.
Kirch takes over the role from Johannes Niemetz who was appointed as the chairman of the newly created flexibility assets and green assets divisions of MET Group as of 1 January 2022, MET said.
Niemetz will remain a member of the executive board and the board of directors of MET Holding, the developer added.
MET Group chief executive officer Benjamin Lakatos said: “I have confidence that Sven’s skillset and experience will significantly contribute to the development of MET’s finance function, and to achieve our growth targets over the next five years.”