
Under new management
The management of two Wittenstein subsidiaries changed on February 1, 2018: Kasper Rungfeldt is the new Managing Director of Wittenstein Motion Control and Wittenstein Aerospace & Simulation.
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The management of two Wittenstein subsidiaries changed on February 1, 2018: Kasper Rungfeldt is the new Managing Director of Wittenstein Motion Control and Wittenstein Aerospace & Simulation.

Siemens /Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Jim Hagemann Snabe is the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Siemens Group. He succeeds Gerhard Cromme. The latter had been a member of the Board since 2003 and its Chairman since 2017.

Ilijana Vavan has taken over the position of Managing Director for Europe at Kaspersky Lab. As General Manager DACH, the top manager has also been responsible for the security company's business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since January 2018.

Andreas Ostermann von Roth joined the management of pneumatics specialist Aventics on January 1, 2018. He succeeds Dr. Thomas Brückner, who retired in mid-2017.

Arnaud Darmont is the new EMVA Standards Manager at EMVA. In future, he will drive forward European standardization activities worldwide and coordinate the development process of image processing standards on the part of EMVA.

Manfred Braun joins the management team at Noax Technologies, working alongside shareholder and CEO Verena Schechner.

The Vice President of Schneider Electric Germany - Alexander von Schweinitz - handed over operational responsibility for the Building Commercial division at the end of 2017. He will be succeeded until further notice by Dr. Barbara Frei, Zone President Schneider Electric DACH.

Dr. Ralf Zander is the new Chief Financial and Controlling Officer at the Lapp Group. He succeeds Andreas Hermann, who left the company at his own request in summer 2017.

IBM has announced that Martina Koederitz will no longer manage the business in the DACH region. The position will be taken over by Matthias Hartmann, who is returning to IBM after several years at other companies. Koederitz is moving to the global business level.

Automation technology manufacturer Lenze is expanding its Executive Board from three to four members. From January 1, 2018, Jochen Heier (54) will head the newly created Executive Board department Operations as Chief Operating Officer (COO).