Dr David Munasinghe has been appointed as the new Managing Director of ThyssenKrupp VDM’s UK operation based in Esher, Surrey as of January 2008. Dr Munasinghe will leave his position at the Austrian-based company Plansee to take up his new duties with ThyssenKrupp VDM, where he will be responsible for the whole of the British Isles. Dr Munasinghe has been with Plansee for 7 years prior to which he served in research, production and the Marketing departments of Special Metals, Hereford. Following a brief hand-over period Mike Taylor, the present Managing Director, will relinquish his responsibilities as of March 2008 after forty years in the nickel industry.
