Thomas Spitzenpfeil has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) of the Schenck Process Group effective 1 October 2018.
Spitzenpfeil, who will also join Schenck Process Group’s Management Board, will be responsible for the company’s global finance- and IT-organization. He will work alongside Schenck Process Group president and CEO Andreas Evertz.
For the past eight years, Spitzenpfeil has been CFO of optics company Carl Zeiss AG.
At Schenck Process Group, Spitzenpfeil will replace Eric Jaschke as CFO, who has decided to leave the company at the end of 2018 for personal reasons.
“Eric Jaschke has contributed considerably to the success of Schenck Process for the past twenty years, especially during the last three years as a member of the management board and CFO. We sincerely thank him for his efforts and loyalty throughout this time. We are pleased that Thomas Spitzenpfeil, who is particularly experienced and highly valued, will succeed him,” said Jürgen Pinker, senior managing director, Blackstone.