Executive Board

Dr.-Ing. Dr. Tobias Paulun

Dr. Tobias Paulun has been Chief Executive Officer of European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) since 1 August 2026.

Prior to this role, he served as CEO of European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC) from 1 April 2023 to 31 July 2026. Between January 2015 and March 2023, he held the position of Chief Strategy Officer on the Management Board of EEX. Tobias Paulun has been with the EEX Group since 2009, when he started in product development and later headed the strategy department of EEX. He has also been a member of the Management Board of EPEX SPOT and Managing Director Exchange at EEX.

Previously, he worked at the Institute of Electrical Systems and Energy Economics (IAEW) at the RWTH Aachen University with a focus on the long-term development of the European electricity market and optimisation of grid expansion of electricity and gas networks.

Anja Kiessling

Anja Kiessling has been the Chief Financial Officer of EEX since 2020.

Anja has been with EEX since 2008 and has gained valuable insights about the company in the Market Operations and later Controlling departments, which she has headed since 2011. Prior to this, she spent several years at an auditing company. Anja holds a degree in International Business Administration, is an MBA graduate, and a certified accountant.

Steffen Köhler

Steffen Köhler is Chief Commercial Officer at EEX. He has been a member of the EEX Management Board and Managing Director Exchange since 2012, and held the position of Chief Operational Officer until end of February 2025. He also has worked as a member of the Supervisory Board of Power Exchange Central Europe since 2016, and that of Nodal Exchange since 2017. Between 2012 and 2019, he was Chief Operating Officer of European Commodity Clearing AG.

Before joining the company, Steffen was Executive Director Product Development at the Eurex derivatives exchange. Prior to this he worked for several companies in the financial sector. He graduated from the University of Passau with a degree in business administration.

Dr. Götz Dittrich

Götz Dittrich has been Chief Operating Officer of EEX since March 2025. In addition, he has been Chief Operating Officer of EEX’s clearing house ECC since January 2019.

Götz Dittrich joined EEX Group in 2013. Prior to his appointment to the Management Board of ECC, he was Director Clearing & Settlement of ECC and in this function responsible for risk operation, physical and financial settlement as well as the development of ECC’s clearing systems. After graduating in physics he worked at Leipzig University and attained a doctorate in natural sciences in 1999. Afterwards, he worked in different management positions in software development, insurance and energy trading companies with focus on quantitative analytical as well as operational functions.

Jens Rick

Jens Rick has been Chief Information Officer at EEX and ECC since 2019.

Prior to joining EEX Group, Jens worked for Deutsche Börse Group since 2015. As Director Energy IT, he was responsible for the design, development and operation of the trading systems of the M7 product family and XBID, including sales and customer management. Prior to this, he managed various software and consulting companies in the financial sector, specialising in data management and trading infrastructure, among other things.