Clemens Iller will take over as the CEO of Swiss special steel company SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH. He will lead the company together with CFO Hans-Jürgen Wiecha, who has been acting as CEO ad interim from December 2013.
Until the end of 2012, Clemens Iller was CEO of the Stainless Global/Inoxum business area of ThyssenKrupp, as well as Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Nirosta, which was sold to Outokumpu group under his leadership. Thereafter, he supervised the implementation of the disinvestment package required by the European Commission. Iller’s extensive management experience, with major enterprises in various market situations and strategic development phases, will be of particular importance to SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH.
With Iller and Wiecha on the Executive Board and accompanied by their international management team, SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH appears to have paved the way to address all current and future challenges. The main objective of the management team, besides on-going operative performance improvement, will be the successful implementation of the approved strategy of the Group. The Board will continue to actively support the management team.