[LRFlex] Change at the top.
- From: David Young <dnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:33:28 -0700
(The following is distilled from the Leica AG Press Release.)
News Item:
Hanns-Peter Cohn to resign as Chairman of Leica, AG as of Dec. 31, 2004.
Ralf Coenen (43), the member of the Board of Management responsible for
Engineering, Cooperations and Asian Sales, will become the new Chairman of
the Leica Camera AG, Solms, as of January 1, 2005.
Ralf Coenen (MBA), a trained communication broadcast equipment mechanic, a
diploma?d physicist and a man with many years of practical experience, is
the right person to be at the head of Leica Camera AG. His management
knowledge, from his academic training as a Master of Business
Administration, as well as from his activities as a consultant with
McKinsey and as Head of the Photo and Film Lenses business division of
Zeiss Group, has contributed to his qualification for the chief executive
position since he joined Leica Camera in July 2000.
The Company?s major technological cooperations, with the Matsushita Group
for digital compact cameras, and with Imacon A/S (meantime merged with
Hasselblad Group) for digital supplements to the Leica SLR and rangefinder
systems, have been built up under the direction of Ralf Coenen.
To spread the ?active cult? surrounding Leica photography, Ralf Coenen
intends to extend the Leica Academy, already successful in Germany, on an
international scale.
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