News › Jen­op­tik · Super­vi­sory Board appoints two new Exe­cu­tive Board members

The Super­vi­sory Board of JENOPTIK AG resol­ved the fol­lo­wing chan­ges to the Exe­cu­tive Board at its mee­ting yes­ter­day: Effec­tive Janu­ary 1, 2023, Dr. Ralf Kusch­ne­r­eit will be appoin­ted to the Exe­cu­tive Board. Dr. Kusch­ne­r­eit heads the Advan­ced Pho­to­nic Solu­ti­ons divi­sion and is a mem­ber of Jenoptik’s Exe­cu­tive Manage­ment Com­mit­tee. The Super­vi­sory Board has also appoin­ted Dr. Prisca Hav­r­a­nek-Kosicek as the new Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer. Effec­tive April 1, 2023, Dr. Hav­r­a­nek-Kosicek will take over the posi­tion from Hans-Die­ter Schu­ma­cher, who did not extend his con­tract which expi­res on March 31, 2023.

Mat­thias Wier­la­cher, Chair­man of the Super­vi­sory Board of JENOPTIK AG: “With the appoint­ment of Dr. Kusch­ne­r­eit, we are streng­thening the exten­sive pho­to­nics exper­tise within the Exe­cu­tive Board. Dr. Hav­r­a­nek-Kosicek adds broad inter­na­tio­nal finan­cial expe­ri­ence to the Board. The Jen­op­tik Exe­cu­tive Board around Pre­si­dent & CEO Dr. Trae­ger is thus well posi­tio­ned to suc­cessfully drive the fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment of our com­pany as a glo­bal optics and pho­to­nics player.”

Dr. Ralf Kusch­ne­r­eit (54) holds a PhD in phy­si­cal che­mis­try and has many years of manage­ment expe­ri­ence in various func­tions. He began his pro­fes­sio­nal career at Carl Zeiss in the field of pho­to­li­tho­gra­phy deve­lo­p­ment and sub­se­quently ser­ved as Head of the Oph­thal­mo­lo­gic Sys­tems Divi­sion and Pre­si­dent & CEO of Carl Zeiss Medi­tec Inc. in Dublin/USA. Dr. Kusch­ne­r­eit has held a manage­ment posi­tion at Jen­op­tik since 2017.

Dr. Prisca Hav­r­a­nek-Kosicek (47) holds a PhD in busi­ness admi­nis­tra­tion and has many years of expe­ri­ence as Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer in seve­ral lis­ted com­pa­nies. Most recently she held this posi­tion at Nil­fisk A/S and pre­viously at Novo­zy­mes A/S, where her respon­si­bi­li­ties included finance, IT and inves­tor rela­ti­ons. Through her work in various inter­na­tio­nal com­pa­nies, Dr. Hav­r­a­nek-Kosicek also has gai­ned exten­sive indus­try experience.