Instrumentation Monthly Test | Measurement | Control
At the extraordinary general meeting on 16 September 2019, the shareholders of Kistler Holding AG elected two new members to the Board of Directors: Stefan Scheiber, CEO of the Bühler Group, and Matthias Altendorf, CEO of the Endress+Hauser Group. These two CEOs of successful family companies that operate internationally will bring many years of professional experience to the Kistler Group, as well as extensive industry knowledge, market expertise and technological know-how.
The appointment of these two additional members of the Board of Directors strengthens the Kistler Group’s strategic orientation. Valentin Vogt, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Rolf Sonderegger, CEO of the Kistler Group, comment: “Kistler has achieved enormous growth in the last few decades: from our origins in Switzerland, we have evolved into a global enterprise with more than 2,000 employees. We are now about to take two major steps that will enable us to continue growing: one is the digitalisation of our company, and the other is the transformation of our corporate culture. In Stefan Scheiber and Matthias Altendorf, we now have two more experts on board who will contribute their knowledge and experience to strengthen and support us as we implement our strategy.”
Experienced figures from family-managed companies
The Bühler Group and the Endress+Hauser Group have plenty in common with Kistler: they are both family-managed and internationally successful concerns with long-established and well-developed corporate cultures. Both Stefan Scheiber and Matthias Altendorf can look back on lengthy associations with their companies, and they have each played their part in shaping many changes in industry and in the international arena over recent years. From now on, Kistler will benefit from the two CEOs’ experience of digitalisation, service, mechanical engineering and plant construction.
Since 2016, Stefan Scheiber has been CEO of the Bühler Group of Switzerland, which holds globally leading positions thanks to its process solutions and plants in sectors such as food, animal feed, aluminum die casting and surface coating. This family company operates in over 140 countries and has around 13,000 employees across the globe.
Since 2014, Matthias Altendorf has been CEO of Endress+Hauser, a leading global provider of measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. The company offers process solutions for flow, level, pressure, analytics, temperature, recording and digital communications. Endress+Hauser employs a workforce of over 14,000 employees in 50 countries.
