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Dr . Ulrich Piepel qualified as a mechanical engineer at the University of Dortmund , Germany . He then started his career at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Logistics and Material flow . At the age of 30 , he made his dissertation at the Fraunhofer-Institute in the field of robotics . After this , he joined the headquarters of Krupp in Essen , Germany for 3 1/2 years . He then took over responsibilities for logistics and production planning as well as for distribution in a Krupp subsidiary named Widia . After Widia merged with a US-based company named Valenite , Dr . Ulrich Piepel was responsible for the global procurement & supply chain of WidiaValenite .
In 2000 , Dr . Ulrich Piepel left Widia to become COO of Maxdata , a major manufacturer of servers , PCs and laptops as well as the market leader for computers monitors in Europe . In 2003 , Dr . Ulrich Piepel became CPO of RWE , the main German utility group for energy , gas and water . He is responsible for an annual purchasing volume of € 10bm .
Since October 2008 , Dr . Ulrich Piepel has been promoted to managing director of RWE Shared Service Center , the RWE Service GmbH .
Since Feb . 2014 Ulrich Piepel has been promoted to directly manage all procurement activities within the RWE group , now reporting directly to the RWE board and having solid lines of all buyers if RWE worldwide .
In September 2016 , Dr . Piepel became CPO of the new innogy SE , which has been the created as the renewable energy company from former RWE . He reports to the CEO .
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