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Dr. Michael Mertin to be new CEO of AT&S AG (news with additional
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26.02.2025 / 10:35 CET/CEST
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Dr. Michael Mertin to be new CEO of AT&S AG
New start at AT&S: As the new CEO, Dr. Michael Mertin, a German technology
expert and top manager, will shape the future through innovation and
entrepreneurship, together with all stakeholders, and lead the company
into a new era. A highly qualified candidate has also been found for the
Supervisory Board chairmanship: former Silicon Valley CEO Andy Mattes will
succeed interim Chairman Dr. Georg Riedl.
Leoben, February 26, 2025 – With effect from May 1, 2025, Dr. Michael
Mertin will serve as the new CEO of AT&S AG for the next three years. He
will succeed Andreas Gerstenmayer, who stepped down from this position as
of October 1, 2024. Dr. Michael Mertin held several senior management
functions over the past decades, including the position of CEO of JENOPTIK
AG for ten years.
“AT&S is an internationally renowned high-tech company that makes
important electronic products for everyday life possible with its
innovative customers and technologies. I myself have spent my training and
my professional life in different fields of technology and with leading
technology companies. Shaping the future through innovation and
entrepreneurship will always be an exciting challenge – and I am thrilled
to take up this challenge,” says Dr. Michael Mertin. “I look forward to
actively shaping the company and continuing its positive development
together with many new colleagues, our customers and the support of our
shareholders and the Supervisory Board.”
Dr. Michael Mertin studied physics at RWTH Aachen and subsequently earned
a PhD in laser material processing and surface technology at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (FHG-ILT). Following a ten-year
career at Carl Zeiss, Dr. Mertin joined JENOPTIK AG as CTO/COO and served
as CEO from July 2007 until 2017. Until today, he has been active as an
independent consultant at Dr.-Ing. Michael Mertin Management Consulting
focusing on private equity and M&A, and carried out numerous acquisition
and divestment projects. Furthermore, Dr. Mertin was President of the
European technology platform Photonics 21, which designs the high-tech
agenda of the EU in cooperation with the European Commission. He was also
Chairman of the University Council of the Illmenau University of
Technology and is an advisory board member of HDI Insurance Group and
Deutsche Bank AG.
“After a comprehensive selection process, we are pleased that Dr. Michael
Mertin, an experienced CEO with knowledge of the industry, has been chosen
for the top position at AT&S,” says Supervisory Board Chairman Dr. Georg
Riedl. “We are convinced that he will succeed in taking the company to the
top of global microelectronics industry together with the AT&S team. On
behalf of the Supervisory Board, I welcome Dr. Michael Mertin to the AT&S
family. We wish him every success and look forward to working with him.”
New Supervisory Board appointment
A new appointment is also planned for the Supervisory Board. The
Supervisory Board will propose to the upcoming Annual General Meeting to
elect Andy Mattes to the Supervisory Board. Subsequently, Andy Mattes is
to take on the role of Chairman of the Supervisory Board. “The Supervisory
Board is proud to have found an excellently qualified candidate for the
Chairmanship with Andy Mattes. He is a former Silicon Valley CEO and looks
back on decades of experience in the USA,” says Dr. Georg Riedl, who was
elected interim Chairman of the Supervisory Board after the passing of Dr.
Hannes Androsch at the end of 2024. If Andy Mattes is elected Chairman by
the Supervisory Board, Dr. Riedl will serve as First Deputy Chairman of
the Supervisory Board.
Andreas Walter “Andy” Mattes is a German-American top manager, who studied
business management at the University of Munich and made a career in
Germany and the USA. After working for Siemens for two decades, he held
senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard in California for seven
years. He then served as CEO of Diebold Inc., where he was responsible for
the acquisition of Wincor Nixdorf AG and subsequently for the merger of
the two companies to form Diebold Nixdorf Inc. and was CEO from 2013 to
2017. Following that, he served Senior Advisor at McKinsey with a focus on
business transformation. From 2020 to 2022, he was President and CEO of
Coherent, Inc. – a globally leading manufacturer of lasers and photonic
solutions – and implemented the very successful sale of this company to
II-VI Incorporated. Andy Mattes has decades of experience serving on
supervisory boards of listed companies on three continents. Among others,
he serves as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of amsOSRAM AG.
“I would like to thank the Supervisory Board for the trust they place in
me and I feel very honored,” Andy Mattes says about his nomination. “AT&S
has become a global technology leader in interconnect technology over the
past decades and counts the most renowned brands in the electronics
industry among its customers, some of them for many years. AT&S is an
exciting company with great future potential. I look forward to this new
task and will bring my experience from the USA to the company.”
AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft – Advanced
Technologies & Solutions
AT&S is a leading global manufacturer of high-quality IC substrates and
printed circuit boards as well as a developer of pioneering interconnect
technologies for the core areas of mobile devices, automotive & aerospace,
industrial, medical and high-performance computing for VR and AI
applications. AT&S has a global presence with production sites in Austria
(Leoben, Fehring) and plants in India (Nanjangud) and China (Shanghai,
Chongqing). A new high-end production facility for IC substrates is
currently being ramped up in Malaysia (Kulim). A European competence
center with connected series production for IC substrate technologies is
being built in Leoben. Both sites are starting production in the financial
year 2024/25. The company currently employs 13,000 people. For further
information please visit (1)www.ats.net
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Additional features:
File: (2)© AT&S / Michael Mertin
File: (3)© AT&S / Andy Mattes
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Language: English
Company: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG
Fabriksgasse 13
8700 Leoben
Austria
Phone: +43 (1) 3842200-0
E-mail: ir@ats.net
Internet: www.ats.net
ISIN: AT0000969985, AT0000A09S02
WKN: 922230
Indices: ATX
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EQS News ID: 2091773
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