Zumtobel Group Appoints Thomas Tschol as Chief Financial Officer
March 08, 2018 at 12:11 pm EST
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Zumtobel Group can finalize the realignment of the Executive Board even faster than announced. Thomas Tschol will take over the function of the Chief Financial Officer. After the nomination of Alfred Felder only on 1 February 2018 to become the Acting President of the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board has now unanimously decided to entrust Thomas Tschol with the function of the CFO. Thomas Tschol is taking over the position seamlessly from Karin Sonnenmoser and will start in March, in order to act as CFO formally from 1 April 2018. Being born in Vorarlberg, the experienced CFO and manager, who mainly worked in international companies is going back home. Tschols last position was CFO for over four years at Mayr-Melnhof Holz.
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).
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