BLOMBERG, Germany, June 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- (06/24) Frank
Stührenberg, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Phoenix Contact,
will retire at the end of December
2024 after 33 years with the company. He will be
succeeded by Dirk Görlitzer, General Manager and Chief Operating
Officer (COO) since 2020. To ensure a smooth transition, Frank
Stührenberg and Dirk Görlitzer will share the role of Chief
Executive Officer from July 1. Frank
Stührenberg will remain associated with the Phoenix Contact
Group in the future as chairman of the supervisory board of the
newly founded company Phoenix Contact E-Mobility Holding
SE.
"We are very pleased about this internal succession arrangement,
which ensures maximum stability and continuity in the company's
management team," says Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Eberhard Veit, chairman of the advisory board of
Phoenix Contact. "Frank Stührenberg has made a significant
contribution to the global growth and success of our company over
many years. At the same time, he has played a major role in shaping
the culture within the company and the direction of the current
Group Executive Board in cooperation with the advisory board and
shareholders. His planned departure at the end of this year now
presents his successor, together with his long-standing management
colleagues, with good prospects to continue successfully developing
the strategy and positioning of Phoenix Contact based on the
current approach."
Frank Stührenberg, born in 1963, studied economics with a focus
on business systems. He has been with Phoenix Contact in
Blomberg since 1992, many years of which he spent in senior sales
positions. In 2006, Frank Stührenberg was appointed to the
Phoenix Contact Group Executive Board and has been the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) since January
2015.
Dirk Görlitzer, who studied electrical engineering, has been
with Phoenix Contact since 1994. His career has taken him from
being a product manager to Head of the Business Area Industrial
Components and Electronics (ICE), and on to the current
Phoenix Contact Group Executive Board.
"Our family business is characterized by the fact that top
management is also driven by a family spirit of togetherness and
responsibility," emphasizes Dr. Frank
Eisert, shareholder and member of the Phoenix Contact
advisory board. "After around 30 years at Phoenix Contact,
Dirk Görlitzer embodies not only technical and entrepreneurial
success, but also – like Frank Stührenberg – the values that
characterize our company beyond that: trust, respect, partnership,
and reliability. As a passionate advocate of our future vision of
the All Electric Society, he will continue to consistently develop
the strategic direction of Phoenix Contact."
Following the departure of Frank Stührenberg, the Group
Executive Board of Phoenix Contact will continue to include
the current members Torsten Janwlecke (COO), Ulrich Leidecker (COO), Frank Possel-Dölken
(CDO), and Axel Wachholz (CFO), in
addition to Dirk Görlitzer (CEO).
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