Change at the top of Trumpf MT
New Group Managing Director and CEO Machine Tools
Change of leadership in Trumpf's Machine Tools division: Stephan Mayer (40) is to become the new CEO Machine Tools (CEO MT) and succeed Heinz-Jürgen Prokop (63), who will leave the company at the end of the financial year on June 30, 2021 after reaching the age limit for members of the Group Management Board.
Stephan Mayer has been with Trumpf since 2012, initially as Head of Central Organizational Development, Production and Quality Management. In 2015, he took over the management of Trumpf Hüttinger in Freiburg and led the subsidiary back on the road to success. In 2017, he returned to Ditzingen as Managing Director of Production and Purchasing at Trumpf Machine Tools. As President China, Mayer has been responsible for all of Trumpf's activities in China since 2019 and manages the two sites in Taicang/Jiangsu and Jinfangyuan CNC Machine in Yangzhou.
Stephan Mayer studied mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe from 2000 to 2004, where he also completed his doctorate. From 2004 until he joined Trumpf, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey in Stuttgart.
Heinz-Jürgen Prokop started in 1988 as head of the design department at Trumpf Lasertechnik in Ditzingen and was Vice President, Head of Development/Design and Production at IHI-Trumpf-Technologies in Yokohama, Japan, until 1992. After holding various external positions, he returned to Trumpf Machine Tools in 2012 as Managing Director of Development and Purchasing. Heinz-Jürgen Prokop has been a member of the Group Management Board as CEO MT since 2017.
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