(pressebox) (Igersheim, 2018-04-03) There has been a change in the membership of the six-person WITTENSTEIN SE Supervisory Board: Karl-Heinz Streibich succeeds Dr. Manfred Biehal, until now Vice Chairman, whose term of office on the Supervisory Board has ended. Mark Farny, the new employee representative, will fill the gap left by Karin Markert, who is no longer with the company.

At the recent general meeting of shareholders, Dr. Stefan Reineck, previously an ordinary Member of the Supervisory Board, was elected as the new Vice Chairman and Dr. Manfred Wittenstein’s deputy.

The new composition is as follows:

• Dr. Manfred Wittenstein: Chairman of the WITTENSTEIN SE Supervisory Board and proprietor of the family-owned WITTENSTEIN SE
• Dr. Stefan Reineck: Vice Chairman of the WITTENSTEIN SE Supervisory Board, physicist and Managing Director of RMC Dr. Reineck Management & Consulting GmbH; various positions on the Advisory and Supervisory Boards of listed and non-listed companies; management of own investments, mainly in startup enterprises; Chairman of Venture Forum Neckar e.V.
• Professor Ronald Gleich: Director of the Horváth Academy and Professor at the EBS University of Business and Law 
• Karl-Heinz Streibich: Chief Executive Officer of Software AG; various positions on the Advisory and Supervisory Boards of listed and non-listed companies; Member of the Presidential Board of BITKOM, the voice of the information technology, telecommunications and new media industry in Germany; Member of the Presidential Board of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering
• Mark Farny: Director Quality Management at WITTENSTEIN SE, employee representative of WITTENSTEIN SE
• Jürgen Guckenberger: Manager Application Consulting at WITTENSTEIN alpha GmbH, employee representative of WITTENSTEIN SE

About WITTENSTEIN SE: With around 2400 employees worldwide and sales of €339 million in 2016/17, WITTENSTEIN SE enjoys an impeccable reputation for innovation, precision and excellence in the field of mechatronic drive technology - not just in Germany but internationally. The group comprises six pacesetting Business Units with separate subsidiaries for servo gearboxes, servo actuator systems, medical technology, miniature servo units, innovative gearing technology, rotary and linear actuator systems, nano technology and electronic and software components for drive technologies. Through its 60 or so subsidiaries and agents in approximately 40 countries, WITTENSTEIN SE (www.wittenstein.de) is additionally represented in all the world's major technology and sales markets.