Dear colleagues,
First of all we would like to wish you and your families a happy and prosperous year 2014.
Unfortunately the year 2013 ended with a little surprise when you were informed that our CEO Mr. Peter Weiss decided to leave the company.
Peter informed us already in September about his decision and it was for pure personal reasons. He also asked us that we keep this topic as long as possible confidential, to enable him to do a professional job until his resignation. We agreed and this is the reason why we are communicating only now.
From our perspective Peter did a very professional job and we wish Peter all the best for his life and his future professional career.
We are also very pleased that we found already a very qualified and professional successor for the CEO role in BTH, who is coming out of our Industry. His name is Martyn Crump and he is currently the CEO of Polysius UK. In total he worked 30 years in Polysius. In this position Martyn had a lot of exposure and experience in the SEA market. In addition to this role he was the responsible manager for the execution of the TPI project for Polysius and spend therefore also significant time in Thailand. He is 58 years old and will move with his wife Amanda to Bangkok. Martyn will start his new role from 1st April at BTH.
We are also very happy that Uli Hock agreed to take the role of interim CEO for BTH until Martyn can start in Bangkok.
We would like to ask you to give both of them all the support they need to do a successful job at BTH.
We will personally be in Bangkok to introduce Martyn to you on 20th February and we all will have a joint lunch to give you the opportunity to welcome him personally.
Looking forward to see you all soon.
With best personal regards,
Dr Christoph Beumer Norbert Hufnagel