Supervisory board
His career moved forward in the 1990s as he moved up in the company. In 1991 he was appointed Chairman of the Executive board of Thyssen Stahl AG and member of the Executive board of Thyssen AG. In 1998 he became CEO and Chairman of the Executive board of Thyssen AG before becoming in 1999 the first CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG after the merger of Thyssen and Krupp. "Ekkehard Schulz helped guide merging of the two oldest and largest European steelmaking companies in the late 1990s." He held that job until retirement in 2011 and then was a member of the Supervisory board of ThyssenKrupp AG until the end of 2011.