Minebea Intec Promotes Manina Kettler to CFO 

Manina Kettler (40) has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Minebea Intec, a leading global manufacturer of industrial weighing and inspection technology. She is now responsible for Accounting, Controlling Treasury, IT and Administration. Most recently, the management of these departments lay directly with Hidenori Shimosako, CEO of Minebea Intec. 

In her new role, she will be in charge of budgeting, reporting, contracts, insurance, cash flow planning and IT strategy, among other things. Above all, Manina sees potential for Minebea Intec to become even more efficient in process optimization and further digitalization within the finance department. “We have already seen initial success with automated invoice and travel expense processing,” says Manina. “One of our next projects will be controlling day-by-day reporting for our business partners in an automated way.”

Manina is the first woman to serve in top management at the company. 

The 40-year-old brings outstanding expertise in the field of finance. After completing her dual business studies at the Volkswagen Group, she passed through various positions as a financial controller in the food and service industries before starting in controlling for Minebea Intec’s Aachen site in 2013. In 2018, she then took on her first management position as Accounting Director at the headquarters in Hamburg, followed by Controlling in 2019. Since 2021, Manina has been Deputy CFO. “I am very much looking forward to the new task,” says Manina. “I want to dovetail the individual departments even more and promote co-operation. For me, that is the key to success.”