Optima Packaging Group Names Managing Director

On March 1, 2021, Dr. Stefan Koenig will turn into managing director at Optima packaging group. Along with Hans Buehler (managing director/CEO), Gerhard Breu (chairman, Optima Pharma Division) and Jan Glass (CFO), Koenig can be liable for persevering with the event of the Optima Group. The first focus can be on merchandise and markets. He may even be tasked with the strategic growth and elevated internationalization of the Optima Client Division and different subsidiaries.

The Optima Group is on a progress trajectory. The corporate, in keeping with its constructive enterprise growth, has been in a position to acquire a prime supervisor from the packaging equipment business, who will oversee the corporate’s continued progress. “We’re delighted to have gained, in Dr. Stefan Koenig, such an skilled supervisor for Optima – one who brings with him a wealth of data from the sector of particular machine building and our goal industries,” says Buehler.

Koenig is particularly conversant in the meals and pharmaceutical industries and has intensive expertise in sequence manufacturing. Earlier than he joined Optima, 55-year-old Koenig had held senior administration positions for over 20 years, together with 4 years spent in Asia. Most not too long ago, Koenig was CEO at Bosch Packaging Know-how, which is now Syntegon Know-how.

Koenig holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering and describes himself as a “constructive crew participant, a ahead and lateral thinker, in addition to somebody who drives intercultural and cross-functional cooperation with excessive expectations of outcomes.” The married father of three has a constructive outlook on his new duties on the Schwaebisch Corridor-based household group: “I’m delighted to be a part of a gaggle of firms that’s now present process such dynamic growth and is on the forefront of know-how in lots of areas.”