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GESCO appoints Kerstin Müller-Kirchhofs as CFO
31.01.2019 / 15:00
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Wuppertal, 31 January 2019 - The Supervisory Board of GESCO AG, a Prime Standard-listed company, has appointed Ms Kerstin Müller-Kirchhofs as its CFO effective as at 1 May 2019.
Ms Müller-Kirchhofs, 52, completed a cooperative education programme in business before earning a degree in economics in Duisburg. She began her career in 1993 at the Düsseldorf offices of Ernst & Young in the firm's auditing department. After 15 years of service as an auditor and tax adviser for industrial and commercial enterprises, she switched from consultancy to the corporate sector. From 2008 to 2015, she served as the CFO of the German subsidiary of Air Liquide, a French industrial gas company. She subsequently served as the CFO of the Otto Krahn Group, a globally operating SME based in Hamburg. In this position, she was responsible for the holding and the Albis Plastic Group, for which she acted as the management spokeswoman on an interim basis for one year from 2015 to 2016.
Klaus Möllerfriedrich, Chairman of the Supervisory Board: "We are pleased to have attracted a CFO with a wide range of experience and profound industrial expertise in the person of Ms Müller-Kirchhofs. Together with Mr Rumberg as our CEO, we believe the GESCO AG Executive Board team is now in an excellent position to actively advance GESCO Group."
About GESCO
GESCO AG is an industrial group made up of market and technology leading companies in the capital goods industry. Its focus is on production process technology, resource technology, healthcare and infrastructure technology and mobility technology. As a stock company listed in the Prime Standard, GESCO AG offers private and institutional investors access to a portfolio of hidden champions among Germany's industrial SMEs.
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Language:
English
Company:
Gesco AG
Johannisberg 7
42103 Wuppertal
Germany
Phone:
+49 (0)202 248200
Fax:
+49 (0)202 2482049
E-mail:
info@gesco.de
Internet:
www.gesco.de
ISIN:
DE000A1K0201
WKN:
A1K020
Listed:
Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
Gesco AG is a Germany-based investment company that acquires industrial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Company focuses on production process technology, resource technology, health, and infrastructure technology, as well as mobility technology, and operates as a long-term investor. It manages takeovers both through management buyouts (MBOs) and management buy-ins (MBI), and through group spin-offs. It offers machines, production facilities, tools, components, and services from steelmaking to 3Dimension (3D) printing, from medical technology to special purpose mechanical engineering. The Company operates in Germany and its subsidiaries include, among others, Astroplast Kunststofftechnick Gmbh & Co KG, Franz Funke Zerspanungstechnik GmbH & Co KG, Doemer GmbH & Co KG Stanz- und Umformtechnologie, Doerrenberg Edelstahl GmbH, MAE Group, SVT GmbH, Frank Group and Setter Group.
GESCO SE 
