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 Hans-Peter Schaefer
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Hans-Peter Schaefer has been President and Chief Executive Officer of NCG,
which we recently acquired, since 2003. Prior to that time, from 1996 to 2003,
Mr. Schaefer was President and Chief Executive Officer of Schütz Container Systems
in the United States. From 1982 to 1996, he was with Bayer AG, Germany, and his
responsibilities included serving as Head of Purchasing and Special Projects,
as well as Head and General Manager of Bayer's world-wide rubber and chemicals
business division. As Head of Materials Management at Bayer, he was involved in
setting up joint ventures and analyzing production locations in the Far East including China.
Mr. Schaefer received his degree in economics from the University of Mannheim in Germany.
He speaks German as mother tongue and English fluently.
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 Winfried Klar
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Winfried Klar joined the Mauser Group as CFO in January 2010.
He worked 20 years as CFO for several companies (e.g. Evonik, VESTOLIT) and in different branches as solar and chemical production, retail and environmental protection business.
This gained a long-standing experience in M&A-processes, business restructuring and complex funding measures.
Mr. Klar performed 10 years as C.P.A. and tax consultant for Price Waterhouse after receiving his degree in economics from the University of Münster in Germany.
His mother tongue is German and he speaks English fluently.
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 Björn Kreiter
Head of Group Controlling
Björn Kreiter is our Head of Group Controlling. Mr. Kreiter joined MAUSER in 1997
as a Project Manager for the implementation of an ERP-System and the corresponding
Controlling and Management-Information System.
Since 1998, he has been responsible for the Controlling activities of the Group.
Before joining us, Mr. Kreiter worked as a Financial Controller at KBC. Mr.
Kreiter received a degree as Diplom-Betriebswirt from the Business Academy (BA)
in Lörrach/Baden Württemberg. He also completed a Diploma Program in Controlling
at the Controller-Academy (CA) in Munich as certified Controller CA.
Upon completion of the Junior Management Program at the Management Academy in
St. Gallen/Switzerland, he also attended a Financial Management Program at Stanford University.
He speaks German as mother tongue and English fluently.
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 Dr. Jürgen Scherer
SBU Manager Europe
Dr. Jürgen Scherer joined the Mauser Group as SBU Manager Europe in October 2011.
He has been with Cognis (now part of BASF) for the last 12 years in various management positions, as Group Vice President Purchasing & Supply Chain Services, Global Sales & Key Account Management for the Care Chemicals division and as Managing Director of Cognis Germany. Before he was for 12 years with Henkel, among those for 2,5 years with Henkel Corporation in the US.
Jürgen holds a MBA and Ph.D. in Economics from Cologne University. He speaks German as mother tongue and English fluently.
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 Jeff Simmonds
SBU Manager North America
Jeff Simmonds joined Mauser Group as SBU Manager North America in July 2011.
Jeff spent over twenty-five years in the chemical industry starting his career with Stauffer Chemical where he held several sales and senior marketing roles. At Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Jeff ran a number of global specialty chemical businesses as General Manager. More recently he was President & CEO at Akcros Chemicals Ltd., a privately held polymer additives company.
Jeff holds an undergraduate degree in biology from Westminster College and earned an MBA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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 Robert Selke
SBU Manager South America
Robert Selke joined Mauser Group as SBU Manager South America in February 2009.
He has a 10 year experience running Brazilian and Latin American businesses as
General Manager, where he was more recently in charge of the Brazilian business of
Alcan Packaging and, before that, responsible for the SunChemical business in
Northern Latin America.
Robert holds an engineering degree of the Escola de Engenharia Maua
and earned a MBA at Fundação Alvares Penteado as well.
Robert speaks Portuguese as mother tongue as well as English, German
and Spanish fluently.
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Christian Schädlich
SBU Manager Asia
Christian Schaedlich joined Mauser Group as SBU Manager Asia-Pacific in February 2012.
He has been in senior management positions in Asia for the past 20 years. Before moving to China in 2007 to serve as CFO for Wacker Chemicals in Greater China, he spent 13 years in Japan with Leybold Vacuum (previously part of DEGUSSA) in various management positions, serving as Managing Director Japan as well as Asia since early 2000, leading the business expansion in the region. He served as member of the Japan Vacuum Industry Association for 4 years.
Mr. Schaedlich received his MBA from the Technical University Berlin with cum laude. He speaks German as mother tongue and English fluently.
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 Siegfried Weber
Senior Vice President
Head of Global Key Accounts and Head of Sales for North America
Siegfried Weber joined MAUSER Group as Vice President Global Key Accounts in January 2006.
Prior to that time he held various positions in the Bayer / Lanxess Organisation for the past 17 years. Before starting at MAUSER he was the General Manager of Rheinchemie, Trenton NJ, USA a wholly owned Lanxess subsidiary.
Mr. Weber received a degree in Logistics from Rhenus AG Mannheim and academy of Logistics Ludwigshafen Germany. He speaks German as mother tongue, English and Italian fluently.
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