The manufacturer has found a new boss.
(Photo: Bosch Siemens household appliances)
Stuttgart Bosch has found a successor for the boss of Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte (BSH) Carla Kriwet. Carl Zeiss board member Matthias Metz will take over the post at Europe’s largest household appliance manufacturer on October 1st. BSH short-term boss Kriwet surprisingly switched to the top of the Dax group Fresenius Medical Care at the end of April after less than two years.
At Zeiss, Metz managed the consumer markets and thus the business with camera and film lenses, binoculars, spotting scopes and hunting optics. Before joining Zeiss, Metz was a managing director at Fackelmann, a member of the board of Zwilling JA Henckels AG and a consultant at McKinsey. After completing a commercial apprenticeship and studying business administration at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he did his doctorate in economics and social sciences at the University of Lüneburg.
“Zeiss owes a lot to Matthias Metz in the further development of the consumer business, in the presence and radiance of the brand,” said Michael Bolle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board. With continuous, profitable growth well above the market average, the division is more successful than ever before. The former Bosch top manager and head of development has only recently been chief supervisor at Zeiss. Both companies know each other very well.
The longtime Zeiss boss Michael Kaschke, for example, sits on the supervisory board of Bosch. The poaching should have happened by mutual consent. Bolle thanked Metz for his great commitment and wished him continued success in his new role.
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At Zeiss, the head of sales for the glasses business, Sven Hermann, succeeds Metz. For the first time, a woman has joined the Zeiss Executive Board. The lawyer and head of HR Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf is taking on the new position of Chief Transformation Officer, in which she will drive forward the digitization of the company. She came a year ago from Currenta, a former joint venture between Lanxess and Bayer.
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Carl Zeiss has grown strongly in recent years, primarily due to the booming semiconductor business and medical technology. Most recently, sales grew by 20 percent to a record 7.5 billion euros. With the departure of Metz, the 175-year-old optics group is also increasingly becoming a stepping stone for managers.
Before Metz, Zeiss also lost Zeiss-Meditec boss Ludwin Monz to the head of Heidelberger Druck last year. According to information from the company, there are no problems filling the vacancies on the board. According to observers, the interest in the executives honors Zeiss. But only as long as CEOs or top researchers are not poached away.
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