Zumtobel Group AG announced the appointment of new CFO for the company Thomas Erath, currently CFO of the Tridonic subgroup, will join the Management Board of the company as of August 1, 2021. He will take over the function of Chief Financial Officer from Thomas Tschol, who will resign according to plan as of July 31, 2021. Thomas Erath can look back on a long, successful career in the company, where he held management positions in the corporate accounting, tax and legal departments and also provided important impulses for the profitable orientation and management of the Tridonic subgroup.
Zumtobel Group AG is an Austria-based company. The Company is engaged as a provider of lighting solutions, lighting components and the associated services. The Company operates through two segments: Lighting Segment and Components Segment. In the lighting segment, the Company produces hardware and software for lighting systems (LED light sources, LED drivers, sensors and light management). It offer services such as advice on intelligent lighting controls and emergency lighting systems, lighting contracting, design services, project management for turnkey lighting solutions as well as new, data-based services with a focus on connecting buildings and cities using light infrastructure, e.g. Real-time location of goods and people using Bluetooth Doppler direction finding. The Components segment includes industry (including logistics, halls, parking garages), office, education and healthcare (including hospitals, schools and universities) and retail (incl. Supermarkets, furniture stores).