CEO of the Year

Gold-winners: Germany – 2013

October 28, 2013

Obermatt identified the CEOs with the best company performance based solely on financial data. No subjective analysis was included.

Best Company Performance

Obermatt evaluated all publicly listed companies and identified the best three CEOs in each category as the gold winners. The following table shows which CEOs came out at the top of the CEO-of-the-Year 2013 ranking in each competition and category.

Competition: Large Companies

Category	CEO	Rank
Combined Performance	Ralf Dieter (Dürr)	97
	Dietmar Meister (Generali Deutschland)	88
	Dr. Ulf Mark Schneider (Nestlé)	80
	Dr. Axel Heitmann (Lanxess)	80
Growth Performance	Ralf Dieter (Dürr)	100
	Dietmar Meister (Generali Deutschland)	100
	Dr. Johannes Teyssen (E.ON)	94
Operating Performance	Ralf Dieter (Dürr)	93
	Dr. Hartmut Mehdorn (Air Berlin)	90
	Dr. Johannes Evers (Landesbank Berlin)	90
Investment Performance	Ulrich Wallin (Hannover Rück)	100
	Dr. Michael Frenzel (TUI)	100
	Ralf Dieter (Dürr)	99

Rest of the winners

Winners over all years

Competition: Mid-sized Companies

Category	CEO	Rank
Combined Performance	Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza (DMG Mori)	93
	Brian Sullivan (Sky Deutschland)	92
	Stefan Klebert (Schuler)	87
Growth Performance	Dieter Holzer (Tom Tailor)	99
	Stefan Klebert (Schuler)	95
	Henning R. Deters (Gelsenwasser)	91
	Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza (DMG Mori)	91
	Brian Sullivan (Sky Deutschland)	91
Operating Performance	Claus Bolza-Schünemann (Koenig & Bauer)	92
	Dr. Günter Blaschke (Rational)	91
	Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza (DMG Mori)	90
Investment Performance	Stefan Klebert (Schuler)	100
	Brian Sullivan (Sky Deutschland)	100
	Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza (DMG Mori)	97

Rest of the winners

Winners over all years

Competition History

Find out which CEOs delivered superior performance in the past. Here are the rankings for each competition: