Management Team

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.

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.

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.

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.