Johanna Schmidtke has stepped down from her position as investment director at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), the strategic investment vehicle for Saudi Arabia-based petrochemical producer Saudi Aramco.
Schmidtke joined private equity firm Ara Partners Group as a principal in December 2018. During her time at SAEV, she focused on investments in companies developing technologies for upstream and downstream oil and gas exploration, petrochemicals, water, energy efficiency and renewable energies.
SAEV hired Schmidtke in 2013 and held board seats at portfolio companies ConXtech, Novomer, Vere Technology, Maana and Siluria Technologies on behalf of the unit.
Schmidtke came to the unit from professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, having previously worked on corporate development and strategy at solar module producer First Solar and as an analyst at research and advisory firm Lux Research.
Photo of Johanna Schmidtke courtesy of LinkedIn.