Electromobility
New managing directors at Phoenix Contact E-Mobility
On January 1, 2019, Michael Heinemann and Ralf Döhre took over the management of Phoenix Contact E-Mobility GmbH: Heinemann as the new CEO and Chairman of the Management Board, Döhre the COO of the company.
Until the end of 2018, Michael Heinemann was CEO of the subsidiary Phoenix Contact Power Supplies, which is based in Paderborn, for five years. This position has now been taken over by Georg Beretitsch, who has been a member of the company's management since 2015. Heinemann began his career at Phoenix Contact in 1992: in 2012, he moved from Head of Product Marketing for Power Supplies to the Management Board of the then subsidiary Aptronic in Bad Sassendorf, which was transferred to the Power Supplies business unit at the Paderborn site in 2014.
Ralf Döhre has been with the Phoenix Contact Group since 2007. From 2009, he was responsible for international production in China, India and the USA in the Device Connectors business unit. Döhre has been part of the management team at E-Mobility GmbH since 2013. As Commercial Director and Head of Production, he played a key role in building up the company. The previous Managing Director - Oliver Stöckl - will leave the group of companies at the end of February 2019 for family reasons and take up a new position in southern Germany.
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