Effective January 1, 2019, Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Michel will succeed Dr.-Ing. Hans Fechner as the spokesman for the management of the Siempelkamp Group.
Christoph Michel studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later, on a part-time basis while working full-time, earned an MBA degree from Duke University, USA. He can look back on 18 years of experience in mechanical and large-scale plant engineering.
After he first worked as a development and project engineer for ABB and Alstom, he joined the GEA Group in 2001. There he managed the areas of corporate development, mergers & acqui-sitions, and strategy. He also held various operative management positions. Most recently, he was the CEO responsible for the GEA Heat Exchangers business unit. He successfully man-aged this internationally acting group of machine and plant engineering companies which was later sold by GEA to a financial investor.
Mr. Michel:
“I am looking forward to successfully further developing the company together with the existing managements and employees of the Siempelkamp Group and contributing my experience in the international components and project business in order to continue to offer our customers cut-ting-edge machinery and engineering solutions for complete plants.”
