Germany: Vecoplan has appointed Thomas Sturm as its chief operating officer (COO). He will be responsible for production, quality assurance, purchasing, development, assembly and electrical engineering in the newly created position.
He will join the chief executive Werner Berens, chief financial officer Michael Lambert and division heads Dirk Müller, Stefan Kaiser and Markus Claudy in the expanded management team.
Sturm, aged 52 years, is a mechanical engineer who worked for Vecoplan previously from 1992 to 2009. He then moved to a management position in a company specialising in the design, construction and manufacture of complex lightweight structures and later served as COO for a developer and manufacturer of custom-made assemblies for civil aviation.
