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The Supervisory Board of GEA Group has appointed Johannes Giloth (49) to the company’s Executive Board with effect from January 20, 2020.

Pentair plc recently announced that it has named James Wamsley to its executive leadership team as Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer effective November 4, 2019.

nVent Electric plc recently announced that Sara Zawoyski was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1, 2019. She currently serves as Senior Vice President Finance and Treasurer at nVent.

Simo Sääskilahti (M.Sc. Engineering, M.Sc. Economics) has been appointed Senior Vice President, Finance for Metso’s Valves business area.

Iron Pump welcomes Mr. Tommy Andersen as their new Chief Technical Officer/ CTO and member of the management team.

Oliver Hermes (48) is taking on leadership of the German Eastern Business Association (OAOEV) with immediate effect.

Pentair announced the appointment of Mona Abutaleb to its board of directors.

South American industrial economies are continuing to grow and Sulzer is supporting this expansion with its latest appointment in the market. Marcelo Alves has taken on the role of President of Rotating Equipment Services in South America and is aiming to further develop Sulzer’s range of services for customers.

Mr. Simon Mangelberger has been named as a new member of the executive management as per 01.07.2019. Initially responsible as the sales manager for the Austrian market, Mr. Mangelberger has become more active in the last months with the overall sales management for the company. Therefore the next logical step was to join the executive management this summer.

Mark von Laer, who has been Chief Financial Officer of Andritz AG since March 1, 2017, will leave the company at the end of 2019. The Supervisory Board has appointed Norbert Nettesheim as his successor, effective as of December 1, 2019.