SMART/LAB Innovationsgesellschaft mbH strengthens management team with Rüdiger Schulze
Aachen, 18 August 2022.
Rüdiger Schulze becomes CFO/ COO
Rüdiger Schulze has been appointed as the second Managing Director of SMART/LAB Innovationsgesellschaft mbH as of 1 August 2022. Schulze will strengthen the management team as CFO and COO to support SMART/LAB's rapid growth. Dr Mark Steffen Walcher, the sole Managing Director for many years, will take on the role of CEO and become Spokesman of the Management Board.
Rüdiger Schulze becomes CFO/ COO
Rüdiger Schulze has been appointed as the second Managing Director of SMART/LAB Innovationsgesellschaft mbH as of 1 August 2022. Schulze will strengthen the management team as CFO and COO to support SMART/LAB's rapid growth. Dr Mark Steffen Walcher, the sole Managing Director for many years, will take on the role of CEO and become Spokesman of the Management Board.
Dual leadership for the strategic and operational strengthening of SMART/LAB
The shareholders of SMART/LAB are Thüga Aktiengesellschaft in Munich, Stadtwerke Aachen AG, erdgas schwaben gmbh, Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG and BEB GmbH. The aim of the new dual leadership is to strengthen the company both strategically and operationally in order to be optimally positioned for the future: Walcher as a pioneer and renowned expert in German electromobility and Schulze with his broad experience in the energy industry, commercial processes, digitalisation and process optimisation. Walcher says "The company has developed rapidly recently. From now on, I will be able to focus on strategy and sales again. We are very pleased that in Rüdiger Schulze we have been able to recruit a proven expert with a wealth of experience in process optimisation and an enormous amount of expertise from other industries and companies. Both will be very important for SMART/LAB in the future. We are therefore very much looking forward to working together."
The shareholders of SMART/LAB are Thüga Aktiengesellschaft in Munich, Stadtwerke Aachen AG, erdgas schwaben gmbh, Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG and BEB GmbH. The aim of the new dual leadership is to strengthen the company both strategically and operationally in order to be optimally positioned for the future: Walcher as a pioneer and renowned expert in German electromobility and Schulze with his broad experience in the energy industry, commercial processes, digitalisation and process optimisation. Walcher says "The company has developed rapidly recently. From now on, I will be able to focus on strategy and sales again. We are very pleased that in Rüdiger Schulze we have been able to recruit a proven expert with a wealth of experience in process optimisation and an enormous amount of expertise from other industries and companies. Both will be very important for SMART/LAB in the future. We are therefore very much looking forward to working together."
More about Rüdiger Schulze
Rüdiger Schulze studied business administration in Berlin and was most recently a partner and member of the management board at Detecon, a management consultancy based in Zurich and Vienna. He is 41 years old, married and has a son. In his consulting career, he has supported clients in the energy and telecommunications industries in Europe and Australia. His professional focus has been on finance transformation, process optimisation and business model development. "I am very excited about this new challenge in e-mobility and the unique opportunity it presents to support one of the biggest transformations of our time," says Rüdiger Schulze.
Rüdiger Schulze studied business administration in Berlin and was most recently a partner and member of the management board at Detecon, a management consultancy based in Zurich and Vienna. He is 41 years old, married and has a son. In his consulting career, he has supported clients in the energy and telecommunications industries in Europe and Australia. His professional focus has been on finance transformation, process optimisation and business model development. "I am very excited about this new challenge in e-mobility and the unique opportunity it presents to support one of the biggest transformations of our time," says Rüdiger Schulze.
About SMART/LAB Innovationsgesellschaft mbH
SMART/LAB develops innovative electromobile services, products and concepts for energy suppliers. The focus is always on the networking and transparency of charging infrastructure and thus a nationwide network throughout Germany as well as Europe-wide interoperability with other market players. This means that customers can charge throughout Europe with one tariff. SMART/LAB attaches particular importance to the user-friendliness of the mobility concepts.
SMART/LAB develops innovative electromobile services, products and concepts for energy suppliers. The focus is always on the networking and transparency of charging infrastructure and thus a nationwide network throughout Germany as well as Europe-wide interoperability with other market players. This means that customers can charge throughout Europe with one tariff. SMART/LAB attaches particular importance to the user-friendliness of the mobility concepts.
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