After more than 18 years as Managing Director of the MULTIVAC Group, Hans-Joachim Boekstegers will hand over the business to his long-standing Managing Director colleagues Christian Traumann and Guido Spix on 1 January 2020 and leave the company. Mr Traumann and Mr Spix will manage the company together in future.
Hans-Joachim Boekstegers joined the company as Managing Director on 1 April 2001. MULTIVAC Group of Companies and since then has been instrumental in driving forward the successful development of the company. Boekstegers is responsible in particular for the consistent expansion of MULTIVAC's product portfolio as well as its sales and service network.
Today, with 85 subsidiaries, MULTIVAC is one of the world's leading leading manufacturers of processing and packaging solutions. Turnover more than quadrupled during this period and totalled Around 1.1 billion euros at the end of 2018, The number of employees rose from 1,600 to around 5,900.
New management duo
From 1 January 2020 Christian Traumann and Guido Spix will continue to lead the MULTIVAC Group as dual leadership. Traumann will take over responsibility for Sales and Finance, while Spix will be responsible for Technology and Production.
Christian Traumann had already been working as Commercial Director in the MULTIVAC Group since the beginning of 2002, and in August 2008 he was appointed Managing Director and CFO of the Group. Guido Spix joined the company as Managing Director in March 2009 and has since held the position of CTO/COO.
In order to ensure continuity in the strategic direction of MULTIVAC, the course is already being set for the handover to Boekstegers' successors after an extended planning phase. Boekstegers will continue to manage the fortunes of MULTIVAC as usual until the end of the year, and he will also remain on friendly terms with the company.
Source: MULTIVAC
