Our Executive management
Group executive management is the top management level of the Datwyler Group. It consists of the Group CEO and the CFO as well as the CEOs of the two divisions Sealing Solutions and Technical Components.
Dirk Lambrecht (1960, DE)
Dirk Lambrecht was appointed CEO of the Datwyler Group at the beginning of 2017. Until 2016, he was a member of the Group Executive Board, heading the Sealing Solutions division, which combines the previous Sealing Technologies and Pharma Packaging divisions. From 2005 to 2012, he was the head of the Sealing Technologies Group Division.
Prior to joining the Datwyler Group, Dirk Lambrecht was Managing Director of Phoenix Traffic Technology GmbH, a subsidiary of Phoenix AG. Prior to this, he worked in various international management positions at Phoenix AG in Hamburg from 1987 to 2003.
Dirk Lambrecht holds a mechanical engineering degree with a specialization in apparatus construction at the Fachhochschule Hamburg; he complemented this with additional education at the Management School St. Gallen, among others.
Reto Welte (1959, CH)
Reto Welte has been Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Board of the Datwyler Group since June, 2009. Before joining Datwyler, he held the same position with the publicly listed Kardex Remstar Group for two years.
From 2003 to 2006, he was Chief Financial Officer of the Feintool Group. Previously, Reto Welte was Chief Financial Officer of the Gretag Imaging Group and co.don AG in Berlin. From 1991 to 2000, he held various executive management positions in the financial sector at Alstom and, among others, headed the medium-voltage technology business unit as its managing director.
Reto Welte is on the Board of Directors of Pfister Arco Holding AG. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Datwyler Cabling Solutions AG, an affiliate of the listed Datwyler Holding AG. He holds a licentiate degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen.
Torsten Maschke (1969, DE)
Torsten Maschke has been Head of the Sealing Solutions division and a member of the Executive Board since October 1, 2016. Prior to moving to the Datwyler Group, he was responsible for the worldwide distribution of sealing and damping solutions for the automotive industry in the Freudenberg Group since 2011.
Prior to that, after completing his education in 1966, he worked in various international leadership positions in the automotive business of the Freudenberg Group.
Torsten Maschke holds mechanical engineering degrees from the University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule) Münster and industrial engineering from the University of Applied Sciences, Bochum.
Neil Harrison (1967, GB)
Since the beginning of 2015, Neil Harrison has been in charge of the Technical Components Division as a member of the Group Executive Board. Prior to joining Datwyler, he was President Europe, responsible for European business at British company, Premier Farnell as of 2009.
In addition, as Global Head of eCommerce, he was responsible for the ongoing modernization and expansion of global e-business services.
Neil Harrison has served in various international leadership roles for Premier Farnell from 1995. He has completed various international management courses at the universities of Harvard (USA) and Cranfield (UK).