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Andreas (“Andy”) W. Mattes

Retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Coherent, Inc.

Mr. Mattes is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Coherent, Inc., where he served from April 2020 to July 2022 operationally transforming the company and leading its $6.6 billion acquisition by II-VI Incorporated in July 2022. Prior to Coherent, from July 2019 to April 2020, Mr. Mattes was a Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on advising international businesses on high-impact transformations, agile change and positioning companies for growth. Prior to that, from June 2013 to December 2017, he served as President and CEO of Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (and its predecessor Diebold, Inc.), a multinational financial and retail technology company. Earlier in his career, he held executive leadership positions at Hewlett Packard, including leading worldwide sales for the technology solutions group and running the Americas enterprise services business, and various executive positions at Siemens AG culminating in his role as CEO of Siemens Communications Inc., USA.

Mr. Mattes serves as a member of the Supervisory Board at ams-OSRAM AG. In addition, he previously served as a director at Velodyne Lidar, Inc.