Rainer Seele is a businessperson who has been at the head of 14 different companies. Presently, Dr. Seele occupies the position of Chairman-Executive Board & Chief Executive Officer at OMV AG and Chairman-Supervisory Board for OMV Gas & Power GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board at OMV Petrom SA and Chief Executive Officer of OMV Norge AS (which are all subsidiaries of OMV AG). Rainer Seele is also on the board of Borealis AG.

He previously occupied the position of Member-Executive Board at Federation of Austrian Industries (IV), Head-Group Chemical Research at BASF SE and Member-Administrative Board at Wintershall Oil AG (a subsidiary of BASF SE), Chairman-Supervisory Board of OMV Solutions GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board at VNG AG, Chairman-Supervisory Board at OMV Refining & Marketing GmbH, Chairman-Executive Board at Wintershall Holding GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board at Erdgas Münster GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board of OMV Exploration & Production GmbH, Chairman-Executive Board at Wingas GmbH, Chairman-Executive Board at Wintershall AG, Member-Executive Board at Wintershall Erdgas Handelshaus GmbH & Co. KG, Head-Strategic Planning at Wintershall Holding GmbH, Member-Administrative Board at Wintershall Erdgas Handelshaus Zug AG, Member-Executive Board at South Stream Transport BV, Chairman-Advisory Board at W&G Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG, Chairman-Executive Board at Numov-Nah-Und Mittelost-Verein and President for Russian-German Chamber of Commerce.

Rainer Seele received a doctorate and a graduate degree from the University of Gottingen.