Laura Timberlake
German company Ziehl-Abegg has appointed former Chief Operating Officer Joachim Ley as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Ley holds a degree in industrial engineering and has been the company COO since 2021. He has also been responsible for production, purchasing, central logistics and processes, and played an active role in shaping the company’s global growth.
Dennis Ziehl, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, says the company is a family business and will continue to be so in the future.
“This DNA has been moulded by my family over more than 100 years and this will continue in the face of global change,” he says.
Ley has worked in various management positions in the operational area. Prior to joining Ziehl-Abegg, he was a member of the board of directors of a market-leading supplier to the aviation industry.
Ziehl-Abegg (Künzelsau, Germany) is a global company that specialises in the field of ventilation, control and drive technology. In the 1950s, Ziehl-Abegg established the basis for modern fan drives (external rotor motors). The company also specialises in electric motors that power systems like elevators, medical applications (computer tomography equipment) or deep-sea underwater vehicles.
Feature image: Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dennis Ziehl (right) congratulates Joachim Ley as the new CEO of Ziehl-Abegg.
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