The Supervisory Board of Evotec SE has appointed Dr. Christian Wojczewski as the Company's new Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), effective 01 July 2024. The election was unanimous and is the result of an extensive selection process that began in January. Dr. Mario Polywka, who has led Evotec as Interim CEO since 03 January 2024, will retire from his position at the end of June and will also not seek re-election for his dormant Supervisory Board mandate, which expires with the 2024 Annual General Meeting.

Dr. Christian Wojczewski holds a degree in chemistry and has over 20 years of experience in various management positions, most recently as CEO of Mediq and at Linde Healthcare. With his appointment, Evotec gains an experienced CEO from the healthcare industry with extraordinary success in the transformation of companies. Dr Christian Wojczewski (52) holds a diploma and a doctorate in chemistry from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

From 2000, he worked as a manager at McKinsey for companies in the pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries in Europe and the USA. In 2005, he joined Linde, the global market leader for medical and industrial gases. After various roles within the company, Wojczewski took over as Head of Group Strategy in 2007.

During this time, he was responsible, among other things, for the integration of both companies, the transformation into a high-performance organisation and the strategic realignment of the Linde Group following the acquisition of BOC. After 2010, Wojczewski took over the management of Linde Healthcare, one of the Group's key growth drivers. During this time, Linde Healthcare developed into the global market leader for medical gases and services for patients with chronic respiratory diseases.

Under his leadership, sales in a total of 60 countries tripled to more than ?3 billion with leading EBITDA margins within the group. In 2017, Wojczewski joined Mediq in the Netherlands, a European leader in medical devices and related services. As group CEO, he led the strategic review of the portfolio, strengthened critical operating systems while streamlining business processes, and reinforced a high-performance culture throughout the organisation.

Through a realignment and transformation, Mediq under Wojczewski's leadership achieved an impressive turnaround with strong EBITDA recovery and towards profitable growth. Most recently, Wojczewski has served as a senior advisor to investors and biotech companies.