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Helene von Roeder has been a member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany since July 1, 2023. She is responsible for the following enabling functions under her leadership: Finance, Procurement and Digital Enterprise Solutions (DES). The DES organization merges Global Enterprise Solutions (GES), Information Technology (IT) and the company's Data & AI Organization (MDAO) into one cohesive unit to enable smarter, more connected ways of operating for everyone at the company. 

Before joining our company, Helene served on the Executive Board of Vonovia SE since May 2018, first as the Chief Financial Officer until 2021, and then as the Chief Transformation Officer responsible for, amongst others, IT, Procurement and Innovation. Prior to that, she spent 23 years working in London, UK, and Frankfurt, Germany, at various investment banks. She started her career in 1995 at Deutsche Bank in London before moving to UBS AG in Frankfurt and London. This was followed by 10 years in Morgen Stanley, where she was the Head of Global Capital Markets for Germany and Austria before becoming the Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse, Germany, Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).  

Previously, Helene was also a Member of the Supervisory Board of our company and Board of Partners of E. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany since 2019, serving as Chair of the Audit and Finance committees, respectively. 

Helene was born in 1970 in Heidelberg, Germany. She has studied theoretical physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and has a master’s degree of Philosophy in theoretical astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is married and has three children. 

Responsibility for Enabling functions 

• DES (Digital Enterprise Solutions)
• Procurement  
• CFO Office & Transformation (incl. Risk Management) 
• InvestorRelations 
• Group Tax 
• Group Treasury 
• Group Financial Reporting 
• Group Controlling