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Management Team

Responsibility and value-oriented management

Two things go hand in hand for us: passion for our work, and openness in our dealings with one another. We can only achieve ambitious goals if we orient our business activities as a whole in accordance with sustainable standards. This is the foundation of our business approach – in dealings with our employees, customers, and partners.

Ulrich Krauss, Managing Director (CEO)

Ulrich Krauss is the Chief Executive Officer of Analytik Jena. He is responsible for the strategy of the Analytik Jena Group as well as the Sales, Service, Product Management, and Marketing business units. Krauss looks back on more than two decades of various international management positions with Carl Zeiss. He was a member of the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss Meditec AG in Jena for more than nine years before leaving in 2011 and assuming the position of CEO at Carl Zeiss Vision, Inc., in the USA.

Hanno Wilhelm, Chief Financial Officer

Hanno Wilhelm is responsible for the areas of Finance, Controlling, IT, Process Controlling, and Legal. Mr. Wilhelm studied business administration in Göttingen, and has served in various commercial and management positions in the course of his professional career. Most recently, he served as the commercial managing director of Cotesa GmbH in Saxony.

Dr. Peter Juschitz, Chief Operating Officer

As COO, Dr. Peter Juschitz is responsible for the areas of R&D, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Logistics. Hailing from Austria, he was most recently Technical Director at cooling systems manufacturer AHT Cooling Systems in Rottenmann, in the Austrian state of Styria and, for many years before that, CEO of Epcos Kft, based in Szombathely, Hungary. He held many different management positions at the electronics conglomerate Philips over a period of many years.

Grit Petzholdt-Gühne, Chief Human Resources Officer

Grit Petzholdt-Gühne holds the position of Executive Board Member for Human Resources. Her executive scope of responsibility encompasses the central units of Human Resources and Corporate Communications. Born in Dresden, Grit Petzholdt-Gühne had various responsibilities in HR management at Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG and the former DaimlerChrysler Group, before heading human resources at Schott AG in Jena from 2004 to 2013.

Advisory Board

Andreas Krey

Chairman of the Advisory Board
Managing Director of LEG Thüringen

Matthias Altendorf

CEO of Endress+Hauser Group

Dr. Heiner Zehntner

Legal Councel of Endress+Hauser Group