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PosterousTÜV Rheinland AG appoints Dr. Manfred Bayerlein new chairman of the management board and expands the board
08-11-11Cologne
The TÜV Rheinland AG supervisory board today passed unanimously a resolution of changes of the management board. As of September 1, 2011 Dr. Manfred Bayerlein (51) will assume the chairmanship of the board. He succeeds to Friedrich Hecker, who will step down and leave the company mutually as of August 31st, 2011.
In his previous position Bayerlein was as Chief Operating Officer Member of the board of TÜV Süd AG. He took global responsibility for the operative businesses. The graduated engineer for material sciences and informatics acted priorly in different internationally operating companies.
Concurrently the supervisory board decided the strategic restructuring and expansion of the management board. Two new positions Technology and International Affairs were created on the management board. Volker Klosowski, longstanding Member of the board of TÜV Nord, will take responsibility as Chief Technology Officer. Stephan Schmitt, who as Chief Regional Officer has been responsible for TÜV Rheinland’s international business in North America, is appointed to the board as of October 1st, when he will assume the position of Chief International Officer. Thomas Biedermann, who as Chief Regional Officer has been responsible for TÜV Rheinland’s international business in Western Europe, is appointed to the board as of October 1st, when he will assume the position of Chief Human Resources Officer.
Professor Dr. Ing. Bruno O. Braun, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of TÜV Rheinland AG, says, “We are delighted that Dr. Bayerlein, with his extensive industry and trade background, will join us as chairman of the board. With our new board members, we are confident that we will be able to continue building on our successful corporate strategy in increasingly technology-oriented and networked markets. This is key in continuing our steady growth of recent years. TÜV Rheinland is a company that to a high degree lives from the knowledge, the experience and the quality of its employees. These are the foundations and at the same time the prerequisite for sustained corporate success.”
In today’s meeting the supervisory board also fulfilled the request of Dr. Christoph Hack, Member of the board for Human Resources and Law, to leave the company as of September 30th, 2011. Dr. Hack has been with the TÜV Rheinland Group since 1988, and has been a full board member since 1992. Dr. Hack played a major role in establishing the TÜV Rheinland Group’s future-oriented structure. The supervisory board would like to thank him for his consistently successful work, and also pay tribute to the reputation which Dr. Hack earned in the TÜV Rheinland Group and beyond in the organizations of the Technical Inspection Associations in Germany.