Our Management

Executive Board

Rainer Koppitz

CEO & Co-Founder KATEK SE

Rainer Koppitz (born 1968, German national) is looking back on many years of international experience in Industrial as well as in the IT and Telecommunications sector, in which he served, among other positions, as CEO of NFON and B2X Care Solutions and as CEO Germany & Austria of BT Germany (British Telecom). Before that, he held managerial positions at Siemens, Dell and Atos. Other mandates held: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CENIT AG (listed, no Group mandate); Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NFON AG (listed, no Group mandate)

Dr. Johannes Fues

CFO KATEK SE

Dr. Johannes Fues (born 1976, German national) has worked for various well-known management consultancies in reorganization and transformation projects. Most recently he was part of the PRIMEPULSE management team and held responsibility for the Asset Management and Operations area. As member of the Management Board of KATEK SE he is responsible for topics concerning the fields of Environment, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG). Other mandates held: none

Group Management

Dr. Marc Achhammer

COO | CHRO

Dr. Marc Achhammer has many years of international experience in the IT and telecommunications industry in the areas of operations, M&A, R&D, sales, service and portfolio management. He held senior management positions at Siemens/Gigaset, Sagemcom and Unify, where he successfully established new business areas. Most recently, he was COO and Managing Director of B2X Care Solutions.

Klauspeter Bader

CSO | Chief Sales Officer

Petra Becker

CTRO | Chief Transformation Officer

Petra Becker brings many years of experience at home and abroad in a wide range of industries, electrical engineering, semiconductors and automotive. With a thorough background in controlling, she has successfully implemented several complex IT projects, and as VP in the supply chain management of a DAX company in the automotive supply sector, she played a key role for several years in shaping the transformation of the supply chain, successively changed the structures and processes and contributed to success during this time. In 2019, she and her team won the VDA’s “Logistic Award”.

As a former member of the German national speed skating team, she knows that stamina, focus and helpful routines within the team make a major contribution to success.

Christoph Antener

CPO | Chief Procurement Officer

Christoph Antener has various years of international experience in the EMS and building automation sectors. He has managed complex supply chain organizations worldwide and has extensive expertise in outsourcing, purchasing optimization, change management and realignment of purchasing organizations. As part of his EMBA studies, he accompanied the successful M&A development of an EMS company and helped to achieve a sustainable increase in earnings.

Stefan Goldschmid

Group Director Business Performance

Stefan Goldschmid has worked in management consulting and in the startup sector. Due to his experience in very dynamic environments and in fast-growing companies, he is specialized in building reporting structures and creating number transparency in order to provide management with data-based decision-making tools. Since 2019 at KATEK, Stefan Goldschmid centralizes all relevant data from the group and is responsible for the implementation of strategic projects as well as digitalization measures in cooperation with the subsidiaries.

Jürgen Lauter

Group Director Strategic Projects

Jürgen Lauter can look back on many years of experience in the successful development and management of an established EMS company. In addition to business know-how in the areas of purchasing, logistics, finance and change management, the business graduate also brings in-depth technical knowledge in sales, key account management, technical processes and quality assurance in the electronics industry. Furthermore, he can look back on intensive project experience in outsourcing and M&A. Most recently, he was CEO of Katek Mauerstetten GmbH.

Golo Wahl

Group Director Business Development

Golo Wahl brings a broad experience in business development and sales to the KATEK Group. His professional career has been shaped by various management roles with global US companies as well as medium-sized technology leaders in Europe. The development and restructuring of intercultural sales teams is one of his key strengths as well as their successful leadership in the international EMS, ODM and OEM business. Among others, his market focus lies in the energy, industrial, automotive and smart building sectors.

Managing Directors Group Companies

Katrin Fricke

Managing Director KATEK GmbH Grassau

Michael Schwell

Managing Director KATEK Mauerstetten GmbH

Marc Schwehm

Managing Director KATEK Mauerstetten GmbH

Marc Schwehm gained comprehensive knowledge in all areas along the electronics value chain at the Mauerstetten site during his part-time studies in business administration and business psychology. With the comprehensive expertise he gained in commercial, strategic and production areas of an electronics service provider, he was most recently responsible for commercial management. At the beginning of 2021, Marc Schwehm was appointed to the management board of KATEK Mauerstetten.

Hendrik Thiel

Managing Director KATEK Memmingen GmbH

As a graduate in business administration and electrical engineering, Hendrik Thiel has many years of experience in direct and indirect sales. He has successfully demonstrated his valuable know-how in the electronics industry, especially in the establishment and expansion of international sales organisations and the development and implementation of sales strategies in his career to date. His last position was Director Sales & Marketing at HEITEC AG.

Jens Arnold

Managing Director beflex electronic GmbH

Jens Arnold is managing director of beflex electronic GmbH and brings more than 25 years of EMS industry experience to the company. Lean Management, Strategic Management, and Quality Management belong to his core competencies. After his business studies, he always accompanied strategic projects in EMS and mechanical engineering companies as managing director and partner and possesses extensive process knowledge around the electronic assembly.

Jochen Paukert

Managing Director eSystems MTG GmbH

Stefan Redl

Managing Director beflex electronic GmbH and Managing Director Katek GmbH Grassau

Stefan Redl completed an apprenticeship as a tax clerk and then studied business administration with a focus on auditing, taxes and human resources management at the LMU Munich. He has many years of professional experience in tax consulting and auditing, including working for the Big 4 (Ernst & Young) and Moore Stephens with a focus on international tax, M&A tax and audit. He has advised major clients such as Kabel Deutschland and Motel One and conducted numerous financial, tax and vendor due diligences.
Stefan Redl gained comprehensive knowledge in all areas along the electronics value chain at the Grassau location. With the expertise gained in commercial, strategic and production areas of an electronics service provider, he was most recently responsible for commercial management as an authorized signatory in Grassau. In mid-July 2021, he was also appointed to the management board of beflex electronic GmbH.

Sven Heidenwag

Managing Director eSystems MTG GmbH

Martin Wühr

Managing Director KATEK Leipzig GmbH

Martin Wühr has been at home in the automotive electronics environment for many years. For more than 25 years, he has built up business units in various functions and acquired comprehensive competences in the areas of development, strategic purchasing and sales in the automotive electronics and OEM direct business. Most recently, he was entrusted with setting up development for an American Tier 1, while at the same time being in charge of the strategic purchasing department and responsible for the group’s largest customer. Prior to that, he worked for one of the largest EMS automotive service providers as a sales manager, where he also acquired his extensive knowledge of PCB technology. Further lean management training at the University of Michigan rounds off his profile.

Axel Schulz

Managing Director KATEK Memmingen GmbH

Dr. Arnd Karden

Managing Director TeleAlarm Europe GmbH & TeleAlarm SA

Dr. Arnd Karden has extensive experience as a Managing Director in manufacturing companies. For many years he worked for German corporations in various positions in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain and Switzerland. During his professional career, he has repeatedly successfully restructured companies and led to significant sales and earnings improvements. Dr. Arnd Karden studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and then received his doctorate at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) of RWTH Aachen University. Dr. Arnd Karden is also the Managing Director of the TeleAlarm subsidiary in Lithuania.

Supervisory Board

Klaus Weinmann

Chair of the Supervisory Board

In KATEK Supervisory Board since November 2018

Office term ends AGM 2023

Klaus Weinmann (born 1969, German national) studied business administration at the University of Augsburg from 1990 and graduated in 1995. After founding CANCOM SE in 1992 as an IT Value Added Reseller, the company, which Klaus Weinmann led in a management role from the beginning, later as Chairman of the Executive Board, experienced rapid growth. In 1999 Klaus Weinmann took the company public and in 2012 CANCOM was included in the TecDAX index of the 30 largest high tech companies in Germany, as one of Germany’s leading IT systems houses. Today, Klaus Weinmann is CEO & Co-Founder of the Munich-based investment holding company PRIMEPULSE SE, which invests in companies with a technological focus. Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: Chairman of the Board of Directors of PRIMEPULSE SE (not listed, Group mandate); Chairman of the Supervisory Board of STEMMER IMAGING AG (listed; Group mandate); Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of glueckkanja-gab AG (not listed; Group mandate). Membership in comparable supervisory bodies: none

Markus Saller

Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board / Financial Expert Audit

In KATEK Supervisory Board since January 2022

Office term ends AGM 2027

Markus Saller (born 1965, German national) studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA, between 1993 and 1995 and graduated with a Master of Business Administration (MBA). In 1991 he had already graduated from Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, majoring in business studies and political science. After spending three years at Bayerische Hypo-Bank in Munich as an M&A consultant Markus Saller became a co-founder of Concord Corporate Finance GmbH in 1998 where he was a Partner until 2002. From 2003 until 2011 he was the managing director and shareholder of the M&A consulting firm, AURIGA Corporate Finance GmbH. Afterwards Markus Saller was employed as a Director at CANCOM SE in the acquisitions department. Since September 2016, he holds the position of Director Mergers & Acquisitions at PRIMEPULSE SE. Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: Deputy Chair of Supervisory Board STEMMER IMAGING AG (listed, Group mandate). Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: Deputy Membership in comparable supervisory bodies: membership in Board of Directors of Autonomous Capital AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Andreas Müller

Member of the Supervisory Board / Financial Expert Accounting

In KATEK Supervisory Board since April 2021

Office term ends AGM 2026

Andreas Müller (born 1976, German national) is the founder, majority shareholder and CEO of S.D.L. Süddeutsche Leasing AG. As a result of numerous international M&A transactions and decades of experience in the financial services industry, Andreas Müller has proven expertise in corporate finance, restructuring and change management, particularly in the automotive and banking sectors. In addition, he accompanies innovative and technology-oriented growth start-ups, including cap-on GmbH, as a strategic investor and visionary partner. As managing partner of SDL Projektbau GmbH, he looks back on several years of experience in project development and is particularly dedicated to the development of innovative housing concepts up to complete city quarters in the DACH region. Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: none. Membership in comparable supervisory bodies: none

Hannes Niederhauser

Member of the Supervisory Board

In KATEK Supervisory Board since April 2021

Office term ends AGM 2026

Hannes Niederhauser (born 1962, nationality Austrian) is CEO of Kontron AG (formerly S&T AG). After studying electrical engineering at the Graz University of Technology, he advanced to manager in the fields of microchips and embedded computing. Before joining S&T in 2011, Niederhauser was the main shareholder and CEO of the former Kontron AG from 1999 to 2007, which became the world’s largest provider in the field of embedded computing. Hannes Niederhauser is consistently driving Kontron’s transformation from an IT service provider to a leading provider of IoT solutions. Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: none. Membership in comparable supervisory bodies: none

23. December 2022

Study – Part 3: How the automotive industry was affected in 2022 – and how it is positioning itself for the future

4. November 2022

KATEK appoints Chief Sales Officer and Chief Transformation Officer

23. August 2022

Study – Part 2: Materials that are lacking most often in the electronics industry – these are the sales losses

Audit committee

Andreas Müller (Chairperson)
Klaus Weinmann (Deputy Chairperson)
Markus Saller (Member)

Nominating committee

Andreas Müller (Chairperson)
Klaus Weinmann (Deputy Chairperson)
Markus Saller (Member)

Updated: March 2022
Section C.14 of the German Corporate Governance Code recommends that the curriculum vitae of Supervisory Board members be updated annually.

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Audit committee

Andreas Müller (Chairperson)
Klaus Weinmann (Deputy Chairperson)
Markus Saller (Member)

Nominating committee

Klaus Weinmann (Chairperson)
Markus Saller (Deputy Chairperson)
Hannes Niederhauser (Member)

Updated: January 2023
Section C.14 of the German Corporate Governance Code recommends that the curriculum vitae of Supervisory Board members be updated annually.