New appointment at Phoenix Contact
Dr. Olesch and Bent leave the management board
The change of managing directors at Phoenix Contact will begin within the current year. Prof. Dr. Gunther Olesch (CHRO/Human Resources) will retire in July and Roland Bent (CTO/Technology) in spring 2021.
Prof. Dr. Gunther Olesch, Managing Director at Phoenix Contact.
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With effect from August 1, the Management Board will be expanded to include four new members: three of them are the presidents of the three business areas: Dirk Görlitzer, Torsten Janwlecke and Ulrich Leidecker. As COOs (Chief Operating Officers), they will be responsible for central areas of the company as well as for their respective business areas.
Dr. Frank Possel-Dölken has been appointed as the fourth new member of the Management Board as Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Possel-Dölken is currently Head of the Corporate Technology & Value Chain division. His future responsibilities will also include the IT division and all digital transformation issues.
digital transformation topics. This will make digitalization the central focus of technology and process development within the company.
"The expansion provides our group of companies with a framework to further develop its management and structure holistically," says CEO Stührenberg. "This goal was the mandate of our Advisory Board in order to position the Phoenix Contact Group for the requirements of the future. In particular, the appointment of the new CDO is of crucial importance in the digital transformation. The ability to innovate and innovation strategies as well as the IT capability of a company are success-determining factors for the new decade."
Frank Stührenberg as CEO (Chairman) and Axel Wachholz as CFO (Finance) together with the four newly appointed members will form the Executive Board from spring 2021.
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