
New president elected
Dr. Gunther Kegel, CEO of Pepperl+Fuchs, will become the new VDE President on January 1, 2017. He will succeed Dr. Bruno Jacobfeuerborn in the rotation. There will also be other changes at the top of the VDE.
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Dr. Gunther Kegel, CEO of Pepperl+Fuchs, will become the new VDE President on January 1, 2017. He will succeed Dr. Bruno Jacobfeuerborn in the rotation. There will also be other changes at the top of the VDE.

With immediate effect, Jack Lee has taken over as President of Red Lion Controls, the US specialist for communication, monitoring and control for industrial automation. He succeeds Mike Granby.

Transmission division of the WEG Group
The drive technology provider WEG has appointed Klaus Sirrenberg as Managing Director of its subsidiaries: Watt Drive Antriebstechnik based in Austria, Watt Drive in Unna and Württembergische Elektromotoren in Balingen.

Konstantin Kerscher has been the new Country Manager at automation specialist ESA Elettronica since October 1, 2016. He is tasked with further expanding the Italian company's German-speaking market share.

Dagmar Weber joined Eplan Software & Service in Switzerland at the beginning of October as the new Managing Director. She is responsible for the local teams in Urdorf and Le Mont-sur-Lausanne.

Spectra Computersysteme expands its management team.

a.b.jödden has appointed Martin Schilling as an additional managing director, who will be responsible for marketing and sales in the future.

TE Connectivity (TE), a provider of connectivity and sensor solutions, has appointed Peter Van Loo as General Manager of Intercontec following the completion of the acquisition of the Intercontec Group.

Jürgen von Hollen is the new President of Universal Robots, a Danish manufacturer of collaborative robots. The company has been part of Teradyne, a provider of automated test equipment headquartered in North Reading, Massachusetts, since 2015.

The generational change in Wittenstein's management announced last year has been completed: CEO Prof. Dr. Dieter Spath is leaving the company to become the new Acatech President.