The digital head of Bosch will move up to the management board of the group from January.
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Stuttgart The technology group Bosch is promoting digital boss Tanja Rückert to the management board on January 1, 2023. This is the second woman after HR manager Filiz Albrecht to join the highest operational management body, as the foundation company announced on Friday. The doctor of chemistry will keep her area of responsibility and continue to be responsible for the digital and software business throughout the group.
The rise of the 52-year-old is rapid: the former SAP manager came in 2018 as head of building technology. Internally, however, it was already clear that she would be brought into the company for even higher tasks. She has been Chief Digital Officer of the world’s largest automotive supplier since July 2021.
The position on the management board has now become vacant because the head of industrial technology, Rolf Najork, is leaving Bosch on his 61st birthday. Within the company, the change comes as no surprise.
“Rolf Najork has turned his vision of the factory of the future into reality,” said Stefan Asenkerschbaumer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board. “Najork has ensured sustainable growth and profitability in industrial technology,” emphasized Bosch boss Stefan Hartung. The CEO takes over Najork’s central tasks of technology, production and quality management.
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CFO Markus Forschner will be responsible for industrial technology in the future. In return, he hands over the service area to Rückert. She also assumes responsibility for networked industry.
Tanja Rückert is responsible for the delicate topic of IT security at Bosch
In addition to digital competencies, Rückert will be responsible for North and South America, Australia, Japan and Korea for some Western European countries such as France, Spain, Italy and Benelux. At Bosch, such areas of competence are always redesigned when there is a change in personnel. But with Rückert, the topic of digital transformation is moving even more into the focus of corporate management.
The most delicate task is likely to be their responsibility for IT security, one of the top issues, as Bosch Vice President Christian Fischer recently said in an interview with the Handelsblatt. Competitor Continental recently fell victim to hackers who are demanding $50 million for their stolen data treasure.
Rückert comes from the small Franconian town of Bad Windheim, located between Würzburg and Nuremberg. She is married and has two children.
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