New Leadership for MULTIVAC Group

MULTIVAC Group will be under new leadership, starting with January 2020. Christian Traumann and Guido Spix will take up dual leadership of the Group, the company announced. Traumann will be in charge with sales and finance, while Spix will become responsible for technology and production, after the retirement of the actual CEO, Hans-Joachim Boekstegers.

Traumann had been commercial head of the MULTIVAC Group since the beginning of 2002, before being appointed as director and CFO for the Group in August 2008. Spix joined the company as director in March 2009 and has since assumed the position of CTO/COO.

After more than 18 years as CEO of the MULTIVAC Group, Boekstegers will hand over the business on January 1, 2020 to his director colleagues. Boekstegers will continue until the end of at the helm of MULTIVAC, and he will remain on friendly terms with the company after this period.

He joined the MULTIVAC Group as CEO on April 1, 2001 and has since played a determining role in driving forward the successful development of the company. Boekstegers was responsible in particular for the systematic expansion of the product portfolio and MULTIVAC’s sales and service network. With 85 of its own subsidiaries, MULTIVAC is today one of the leading manufacturers worldwide of packaging and processing solutions.

During this time the company’s turnover was more than quadrupled, reaching some EUR1.1bn at the end of 2018, and the number of employees rose from 1,600 to around 5,900.

Photo caption: Christian Traumann – CFO, Guido Spix – CTO, Hans-Joachim Boekstegers – CEO Multivac