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Steffen Bersch to step down from GEA’s Executive Board

12 Feb 2020

Today, the Supervisory Board of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft and Steffen Bersch (50), member of GEA’s Executive Board, have mutually agreed to prematurely terminate his service agreement due to expire on December 31, 2021. In doing so, the Board honored Steffen Bersch’s request for a termination of his service agreement to seek new challenges outside of GEA Group.

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  • GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft will be managed by a three-member Executive Board going forward 
  • Newly created “Global Executive Committee” consisting of the Executive Board, the Division CEOs as well as the Regional CEOs set to strengthen the new organization

As a consequence, GEA will shrink its Executive Board to three members. As of March 1, 2020, the latter will comprise the Chairman of the Executive Board Stefan Klebert, the Chief Financial Officer Marcus A. Ketter as well as the company’s Chief Operating Officer Johannes Giloth.  

Since January 1, 2016, Steffen Bersch has been a member of the Executive Board of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, where he has been responsible for the Liquid & Powder Technologies, Food & Healthcare Technologies and Refrigeration Technologies Divisions as well as Global Technology since the start of the year. 

Joining GEA back in 2000, Steffen Bersch has held various leadership positions within the company. This included several years as Managing Director of GEA Middle East in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as well as a stint as head of a business unit in the Separator business. On the Executive Board, he was in charge of the Business Area Equipment until the end of 2019. When the new divisional organization entered into force at the start of the year, he took up his current responsibilities.

Dr. Helmut Perlet, Chairman of GEA’s Supervisory Board, stated: “On behalf of the entire Supervisory Board, I would like to thank Steffen Bersch very much for the twenty years of service he has rendered to GEA. In a difficult market environment, he has been instrumental in driving the successful development of the Business Area Equipment and the company’s service business in recent years. I very much regret his departure and wish him all the best in his future, both personal and professional.“  

For the purpose of giving the Division CEOs and the Regional CEOs responsible for operational business a greater say in corporate decision-making, the company will set up a Global Executive Committee immediately below Executive Board level.

Stefan Klebert, CEO of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft commented: “First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Steffen Bersch for his constructive cooperation on the Executive Board, wishing him all the best and every success in meeting his new challenges. By creating a Global Executive Committee, we will accomplish an even more direct form of governance for our divisional corporate structure while accelerating decision making. We have restored profit & loss responsibility for their respective entities to our managers. Therefore, it is only logical to more closely involve them in the strategic and operational decisions of the group as a whole going forward.” 

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GEA est un des principaux fournisseurs de l'industrie agroalimentaire et d'autres industries, qui sont à l’origine d’un revenu consolidé qui a atteint près de 4,9 Mrd EUR en 2019.

C’est un groupe international spécialisé dans les machines et les installations, ainsi que dans les technologies de procédés et composants. GEA fournit des solutions énergétiques durables, utilisées dans des process de production de pointe pour divers marchés, et offre une gamme complète de services. Le groupe réalise près de 70 % de son revenu dans l'industrie alimentaire et des boissons, un secteur caractérisé par une croissance durable de long terme. Au 31 décembre 2018, la société employait plus de 18 500 personnes dans le monde. GEA est un leader du marché et des technologies dans ses secteurs d'activité. La société est cotée sur l'indice boursier allemand MDAX (G1A, WKN 660 200), sur l'indice STOXX® Europe 600 et sur des indices de durabilité globale MSCI sélectionnés.
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