| Board Members | | | | Academic Board Members | Industrial Board Members | | Central Europe |  | | Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dieter Spath is the head of the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management (IAT), University Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) since 2002. In 2003 he was elected as a member of acatech - Council of Technical Sciences of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. | |  | | Dr.-Ing. Ekkehard Gericke is a member of the management board of Festo AG since 2001. He is responsible for global market supply, production, purchasing and logistics. Festo was the winner of the German logistics award 2003. | | |  | | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Brinzer is Professor of Production Engineering and Production Management at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences and the speaker of the Competence Centre for Modern Production Systems (KMP). His core competencies are integrated production systems, production logistics, production control and factory layout planning. | |  | | Dr. Martin Stark is a member of the management board at Freudenberg Co. KG since 2005. Prior to his nomination at Freudenberg, he had been Managing Director at Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. He is the chairman of the ZVEI (Fachverband Electronic Components and Systems). | | Japan |  | | Prof. Shuji Kondou is professor at Jaist University (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). His core competencies are consulting, new business creation, R&D management, management of human power innovation and enterprise innovation. | |  | | Dr. Akio Shimazaki was Managing Director at Fuji Electric Corporate Research & Development Lab. He is an expert in innovation management and human resources. He is a Peer Reviewer of NEDO (New Energy & Industrial Technology Development Organization). | | NAFTA |  | | Francis E. Plonka, Ph.D. is a faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He currently serves as a member of the Leadership Project Oversight Committee for both the Engineering Management Masters Program (EMMP) offered on site at Ford Motor Company to high potential engineers and on campus to students from local companies. | |  | | Richard A. Krakowski is Vice President of Engineering at Perceptron, Plymouth Michigan. He is responsible for product development of information based process improvement solutions for non-contact measurement and inspection systems. He is a member of the Institute for Information Technology and Culture (IITC) at Wayne State University. | | China |  | | Prof. Dr. Li Jun Zhang is Professor of Innovation Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is lecturer in Executive MBA Business Management Trainings and Situaltional Leadership. His core competencies are profitable growth by Innovation Management | |  | | Andreas Meisel is General Manager of Ameco Beijing since January 2007. It is his second assignment to China. Previously he was Senior Vice President Aircraft Overhaul & VIP Jet Services with Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg, Germany. | |
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