The Schunk Group has a new CEO: Peter R. Manolopoulos (54) took over as CEO of the technology company on November 1. As planned, he succeeds Dr. Arno Roth (61), who has left the company at his own request.
Manolopoulos was born in Wuppertal in 1969. After studying business administration at the University of Münster, he initially worked for a management consultancy before joining Babcock Borsig AG in 2000.
Since 2002, Manolopoulos has held several management positions at GEA Group AG, a globally active German machinery and plant manufacturer, where he was most recently Managing Director of GEA Energietechnik GmbH. In 2011, he moved to Roth & Rau AG, a leading machine and plant manufacturer for the solar industry, as the board member responsible for operations.
Since 2013, Manolopoulos has been a Member of the Executive Board of the Schunk Group and, as Chief Operations Officer (COO), has been responsible for the machinery and plant engineering business.
Manolopoulos will lead the Schunk Group together with the current Member of the Executive Board, Dr. Ulrich von Hülsen, as well as another member yet to be named.