New appointment to the Starrag executive board

Dr. Marcus Otto has just been appointed a member of the executive board and head of the business unit transportation & industrial components at Starrag Group. He has been the responsible managing director of Heckert in Chemnitz for the Starrag Group on an interim basis since May 2016.

Otto received his diplomas in engineering and business engineering along with his PhD at Ruhr-University Bochum. His professional career up to now includes various roles in management and as managing director at ThyssenKrupp and Gildemeister.

Starrag Group CEO Walter Börsch commented: “We are very pleased that we could win Dr. Marcus Otto as a proven industry professional to head our strategically important Business Unit Transportation & Industrial Components, with his profile fitting the Starrag Group very well. Dr. Marcus Otto has many years of global business experience with machine tools, especially in our target market Transportation & Industrial Components.”

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