Felix Schoeller announces reconfigured management team

Wide-ranging changes have been made at top management level of the speciality paper producer Felix Schoeller.

Hans-Christoph Gallenkamp has been appointed to succeed Dr Bernhard Klofat as the company’s CEO. Peter Cornelissen has stepped down from his long-standing position as CFO of the Osnabruck-based paper manufacturer and taken on a new role. He will concentrate on expanding Winbon Schoeller New Materials (WSNM), the joint venture founded last year in China. As such he will play a key role in the Felix Schoeller Group’s overseas strategy. He has been based in Longyou, China, since March 2018. Guido Hofmeyer, who was responsible for the Felix Schoeller Division, succeeds him as the Felix Schoeller group’s CFO. His position as executive vice-president of the Felix Schoeller division will be filled at the beginning of next year. Gerhard Hochstein has been newly elected as executive vice-president of the holding company. He has been with the company since April 2016 as executive vice-president of Schoeller Technocell. As CTO, Hochstein is now responsible for engineering, research and development, technical purchasing, energy management, patents and business development. Stephan Igel, as CSO responsible for sales in the Technocell division, now also takes on responsibility for raw materials purchasing. There have been no changes in responsibility for production, with Georg Haggenmuller remaining in post as CMO.