Endress+Hauser appoints Matthias Altendorf CEO

Summary

December 30, 2013 - Endress+Hauser appoints Matthias Altendorf CEO while former CEO Klaus Endress joins the Supervisory Board After 19 years at the top of Endress+Hauser, Klaus Endress moves to the Group’s Supervisory Board as of 1 January 2014, replacing President Klaus Riemenschneider who is retiring after 43 years of work for Endress+Hauser. New CEO of the Group is Matthias Altendorf, former Managing Director of the Center of Competence for level and pressure measurement engineering in Maulburg, Germany. The 46-year-old is only the third CEO in the company’s history starting in 1953 – and the first one not coming from the Endress shareholder family. The changes at the top of the Group have already been announced in March. The Endress+Hauser Group Endress+Hauser is a global leader in measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial process engineering. The Group employs more than 10,000 personnel across the globe, generating net sales of 1.7 billion euros in 2012.