Johannes P. Huth joined our Board in May 2020. Mr. Huth is a Senior Advisory Partner of KKR, an investment firm, and was previously Head of KKR's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He joined KKR in May 1999 and was also a member of several of KKR’s Investment Committees. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Huth was a member of the Management Committee of Investcorp and jointly responsible for Investcorp's operations in Europe. From 1986 to 1991, he worked at Salomon Brothers, where he was a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions departments in London and New York.
Mr. Huth is currently a member of the Board of Axel Springer SE, a digital publishing company based in Germany, Roompot, a vacation parks group based in the Netherlands, and Marshall Wace Ltd., a hedge fund. He is the Chairman of Invest Europe, a trade association, President of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, Trustee of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt and the American Academy in Berlin, Member of Council and Chairman of the Audit Committee for the London School of Economics as well as a member of the Global Advisory Board of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a member of the board of the Foundation of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, which supports nature conservation and animal welfare. Additionally, he is a visiting fellow to Oxford University and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Mr. Huth earned a BSc with Highest Honors from the London School of Economics and an MBA from the University of Chicago.