Balta announced that Jan-Christian Werner, currently Head of Group Controlling & Reporting, is appointed Chief Financial Office following the departure of Tom Gysens who has decided to leave the company to pursue other career opportunities Tom and Jan-Christian will work closely together on the transition until the end of September. Jan-Christian has extensive experience in Corporate Finance as well as Financial Controllership at international stock market listed companies. Before joining Balta in February, Jan-Christian was head of the Finance organization for the EMEA region at Orion Engineered Carbon for five years and afterwards spent one year as acting CFO of AvesOne AG.

The company also announced that Oliver Forberich will join the company on September 2, 2019, as Managing Director of Balta carpets, ITC and arc edition. Oliver joins the company from Bekaert where he was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President Stainless Technologies. Oliver spent twelve years at Bekaert in different leadership roles covering various geographies. Before Bekaert, Oliver also held several executive roles at Schott AG.