Peer Schatz

Vice Chairman

Chief Executive Officer of Qiagen N.V.

Peer M Schatz, 43, has been Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Evotec since June 1998. In 1993 he joined QIAGEN N.V. as Chief Financial Officer and has been nominated as QIAGEN's Chief Executive Officer as well as Chairman of both the Management Board and the Executive Committee in 2004. Mr Schatz was previously a partner in a private management buyout group in Switzerland and worked in finance and systems positions at Sandoz AG and Computerland AG as well as in finance, operations, management and sales positions in various start-up companies in the computer and software trading industry in Europe and the United States.

Peer M Schatz graduated from the University of St. Gall, Switzerland, with a Master's degree in Finance in 1989 and obtained an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1991. Mr Schatz is a Member of the German Corporate Governance Commission.