The Doctor of Engineering with a degree in Business Administration started his career at Siemens AG. During a series of management roles, he was responsible for various business units both in Germany and abroad, and was President of the Industry segment in North-East Asia.
Dr. Marc Wucherer has been on the board of directors at Bosch Rexroth AG since 2017, with global responsibility for sales and marketing and, later on, for the factory automation segment as well. Dr. Wucherer is a first-class manager with enormous experience in multiple business areas. In addition to his great expertise and reliability, his international experience is a perfect fit for actively shaping Ziehl-Abegg’s continued global growth.
“With Dr. Marc Wucherer as the CEO and today’s board members Olaf Kanig (CFO), Dr. Sascha Klett (CTO) and Joachim Ley (COO), the Ziehl-Abegg group will have a strong, new and outstanding executive team”, says Dennis Ziehl, Chairman of the Ziehl-Abegg SE Supervisory Board.
About Ziehl-Abegg
Ziehl-Abegg (Künzelsau, Germany) is one of the leading global companies in the field of ventilation, control and drive technology. In the 1950s, Ziehl-Abegg established the basis for modern fan drives: external rotor motors which even today are still seen as state-of-the-art worldwide. Another area of business is electric motors which provide the power, for example, for elevators, medical applications (computer tomography equipment) or deep-sea underwater vehicles. The theme of electro-mobility for motor vehicles was established as part of the Ziehl-Abegg Automotive Team in 2012.
The high-tech company has an impressive innovative capability. Ziehl-Abegg employs 2,600 personnel in its production plants in southern Germany. The company has a global workforce of 4,700 spread between 16 production plants, 29 companies and 112 sales locations. The products, approx. 30,000 in all, are sold in more than 100 countries. Turnover totals 716 million euros, with exports accounting for three quarters of the figure, (all numbers refer to the year 2021).
Emil Ziehl founded the company in Berlin in 1910 as a manufacturer of electric motors. After World War II the company’s headquarters were relocated to southern Germany. Ziehl-Abegg SE is not a listed company but instead is family-owned.
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