Heidelberg reorganizes management board

The supervisory board and management board of Heidelberg have decided to further streamline management structures and reduce the size of the management board as part of the company's digital transformation. 

 

In future, the technology department will be headed by Rainer Hundsdörfer, chairman of the management board, while purchasing will move to the finance department to CFO Marcus Wassenberg. Sales and digitization will be concentrated at chief digital officer Prof Dr Ulrich Hermann. The handover will begin immediately.

 

Plenz, a mechanical engineer, has been with Heidelberg for over 30 years. He has been a member of the management board since 2008 and managed sheet-fed, digital, label and post-press business units. He was also responsible for research and development, purchasing and production. 

 

The supervisory board thanked Plenz for his commitment to Heidelberg to date. Supervisory board chairman Dr Siegfried Jaschinski, said: ‘Stephan Plenz has played a key role in shaping Heidelberg's course over a long period of time. We would particularly like to thank him for setting up a modern production structure with a very successful site in China and for shaping an innovative and successful product portfolio that will enable Heidelberg to move into the digitized future. I would like to emphasize his special commitment in times of great change in our industry.’