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Krones AG plans changes in its Supervisory and Executive Boards

1:59 min Management
Krones AG Neutraubling, Germany

At the AGM in Neutraubling on 15 June 2011, the agenda for the shareholders of Krones AG will include a vote on a revamped Supervisory Board. Standing for re-election are the present Supervisory Board Chairman Ernst Baumann (62), a former director of BMW AG, Norman Kronseder (48), farmer and forester, Dr. Jochen Klein (67), Managing Director of I-Invest GmbH, and Count Philipp von und zu Lerchenfeld (59), a member of the Bavarian State Parliament. The former President of Regensburg University, Prof. Dr. Erich Kohnhäuser (66), will be stepping down from the body upon conclusion of the AGM. Petra Schadeberg-Herrmann (44) is the first woman to stand for election to Krones’ Supervisory Board. As a managing partner of Krombacher Finance GmbH, she will be able to contribute her extensive knowledge and her long years of experience.In the constitutive meeting immediately following the AGM, the Supervisory Board of Krones AG will be deciding on changes in the company’s Executive Board.After 15 years on the on Krones AG’s Executive Board, the Deputy Executive Board Chairman, Hans-Jürgen Thaus (62), will be stepping down from it effective 31 December 2011, having reached the contractually agreed age limit of 62.The Human Resources Committee of the Supervisory Board will propose to the full Supervisory Board of Krones AG Christoph Klenk (47) to succeed Hans-Jürgen Thaus as Financial Director. An engineering graduate, Christoph Klenk has since 2003 been a member of Krones AG’s Executive Board, where he has been responsible for Research and Development and Divisions.The successor to Christoph Klenk proposed to the board will be the present Head of Research and Development, Thomas Ricker (43). A mechanical engineering graduate, Thomas Ricker is set to be appointed to the Executive Board effective 1 January 2012.

At the AGM in Neutraubling on 15 June 2011, the agenda for the shareholders of Krones AG will include a vote on a revamped Supervisory Board. Standing for re-election are the present Supervisory Board Chairman Ernst Baumann (62), a former director of BMW AG, Norman Kronseder (48), farmer and forester, Dr. Jochen Klein (67), Managing Director of I-Invest GmbH, and Count Philipp von und zu Lerchenfeld (59), a member of the Bavarian State Parliament.

The former President of Regensburg University, Prof. Dr. Erich Kohnhäuser (66), will be stepping down from the body upon conclusion of the AGM. Petra Schadeberg-Herrmann (44) is the first woman to stand for election to Krones’ Supervisory Board. As a managing partner of Krombacher Finance GmbH, she will be able to contribute her extensive knowledge and her long years of experience.

In the constitutive meeting immediately following the AGM, the Supervisory Board of Krones AG will be deciding on changes in the company’s Executive Board.

After 15 years on the on Krones AG’s Executive Board, the Deputy Executive Board Chairman, Hans-Jürgen Thaus (62), will be stepping down from it effective 31 December 2011, having reached the contractually agreed age limit of 62.

The Human Resources Committee of the Supervisory Board will propose to the full Supervisory Board of Krones AG Christoph Klenk (47) to succeed Hans-Jürgen Thaus as Financial Director. An engineering graduate, Christoph Klenk has since 2003 been a member of Krones AG’s Executive Board, where he has been responsible for Research and Development and Divisions.

The successor to Christoph Klenk proposed to the board will be the present Head of Research and Development, Thomas Ricker (43). A mechanical engineering graduate, Thomas Ricker is set to be appointed to the Executive Board effective 1 January 2012.

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