THE CAELI WIND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Our foundation -
the Caeli Board of Directors
Experience and expertise from the energy, technology and start-up sectors.
Under the chairmanship of impact investor Wilfried Gillrath, experts from the renewable energy sector, the energy industry and the IT and start-up sector have come together around Caeli Wind. They bring political experience, business networks and the concentrated power of a strong entrepreneurial group of investors who are firmly behind Caeli Wind.
Claudia Schlemmermeier as Deputy Chairwoman is part of the management of LBD-Beratungsgesellschaft, a leading strategic management consultancy for climate protection and decarbonization. As a spin-off of LBD, Caeli Wind benefits significantly from the know-how and experience of 30 years of energy industry consulting.
Together, the Board of Directors supports Caeli Wind's mission: to make digitalization, energy industry expertise and innovation easy to apply, to create transparency and efficiency for decision-making in order to overcome the hurdles to the expansion of wind power in Germany - and to advance the energy transition.
The Caeli Wind Board of Directors:
Willfried Gillrath
President
Wilfried Gillrath is a cleantech pioneer and impact investor. As co-founder and CEO of LichtBlick, he campaigned for green electricity and renewable energies. As an investor, he focuses on start-ups that have a positive impact on the environment and society. Steering cash flows towards sustainability is his passion.
Claudia Schlemmermeier
Deputy Chair
Claudia Schlemmermeier has been managing director of LBD-Beratungsgesellschaft for over 20 years, guiding companies into new markets and business areas and primarily advising on climate neutrality and the heat transition and the transformation required for this. Her aim is to make the path to CO2-free living spaces possible.
Alexander von Mellenthin
Alexander von Mellenthin has been active in the venture capital and private equity sector for more than 25 years. As COO of the goetzpartners group and Managing Partner of Deutsche Invest Capital Partners, he has successfully supported companies and entrepreneurs in developing and implementing business models for a strategically and sustainably defensible competitive position.
Klaus Lehmann
Klaus Lehmann has been an investor in high-tech start-ups since 1999. He supports individual portfolio companies in the implementation of their growth plans and M&A processes as well as their corporate financing or restructuring. The business graduate is a member of numerous company advisory boards and sits on the HTGF jury for Exist Forschungstransfer Ingenieurwissenschaften.
Stephen Chandler
Stephen Chandler is not only a co-founder and managing partner at Notion Capital, but also has 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and investor in founding, financing, managing and advising technology companies.He has helped leading companies to develop and implement successful market strategies.He is also a board member of renowned technology companies.
Franz Untersteller
Born in 1957 in Saarland, married and father of 2 adult children. From 2011 to 2021, the qualified landscape architect was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state government as Minister for the Environment, Climate and Energy. He has been working as an independent management consultant since 2022.
Malte Eberwein
Malte Eberwein is a member of the management team at Bundesforst, where he is responsible for the production and sale of forest products in Germany. He works on various committees in the German forestry industry, including the timber market committee and the extended executive committee of the German Forestry Council. He also manages the family forestry business.
