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Turck appoints Michael Gürtner to the management board
Turck has appointed Dr. Michael Gürtner to the Executive Board. He will be responsible for Development & IT.
On February 1, Dr. Michael Gürtner will take over the management of the Development & IT division at Turck Holding. At the same time, the 46-year-old has also been appointed to the Management Board of Werner Turck, which he will manage together with Michael Gröbner. Gröbner will be responsible for the Production and Supply Chain Management (SCM) departments in the holding management, while the managing directors of Hans Turck, Christian Wolf and Christian Pauli, will be responsible for the Sales & Marketing and Finance, Human Resources and Legal departments in the holding.
Dr. Michael Gürtner studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where he completed his doctorate at the Institute for Measurement Systems and Sensor Technology. He headed various development areas in the Bosch Group, specializing in IT-related topics such as IIoT ecosystems and cloud-based software as service solutions in addition to sensor technology. Most recently, Gürtner was CTO at Sixt, where he was responsible for the digital transformation of the company and its business processes.
"In addition to his impressive management expertise, Dr. Michael Gürtner brings with him extensive product and innovation expertise, particularly in the field of IIoT. With his experience in software and IT infrastructure projects, he is the ideal appointment for a company that is undergoing digital transformation together with its customers," says Hans Sondermann, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Turck Holding GmbH. "We are therefore convinced that we have found the right manager in Dr. Gürtner to take the Turck Group even further along its successful path."
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