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Dr. Mats Gökstorp
Dr. Mats Gökstorp has been the Chairman of the Executive Board at SICK AG since October 1, 2021. He is also responsible for the Markets & Governance division. He joined the company in 2003 with the acquisition of SICK IVP in Sweden and moved to Germany in 2007 where he became a member of the Management Board with responsibility for highly industrial sensors. In 2011, he assumed responsibility for global sales processes within the Group. On May 1, 2013, he was appointed to the Executive Board and assumed responsibility for Sales & Service, later also for Product & Marketing and Governance.
Mats Gökstorp was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965. After studying Computer Science and Engineering both in Sweden and the USA, he received his doctorate in 1995. He joined a small start-up company in 1993, where he worked in several roles from R&D to sales and was the General Manager from 2001 to 2007.
Jan-H. Eberhardt
Jan-H. Eberhardt is the Executive Board member responsible for Finance & IT, effective October 16, 2023. Before joining the Executive Board of SICK, he held various finance functions at the medical technology company B. Braun for more than 15 years. Most recently, he was Group Vice President of Corporate Accounting & Controlling at B. Braun and a member of the executive management at various subsidiaries.
Jan-H. Eberhardt was born in Kassel in 1980. After training as an industrial clerk, he studied economics at the University of Witten-Herdecke, specializing in corporate finance, corporate strategy and capital market theory.
Ulrike Kahle-Roth
Ulrike Kahle-Roth has been the Executive Board member for the Supply Chain & Fulfillment portfolio at SICK AG since December 1, 2022. Back in 2019 she commenced her role as Senior Vice President Customer Fulfillment in the company. Previously she held a variety of supply chain management positions at The Dow Chemical Company, finishing as Customer Service Director EMEA. She then took over the post of Senior Director Global Supply Chain at A. Schulman Europe GmbH.
Ulrike Kahle-Roth was born in Kehl in 1976. She studied business management and completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) majoring in international management.
Nicole Kurek
Nicole Kurek has been a member of the Executive Board since July 1, 2022 and is responsible for the People & Culture portfolio. Before taking up her position on the board at SICK, she was the Senior Vice President Talent and Transformation Management at the BMW Group where she acquired many years of experience in the automotive industry as well as in her role as a HR manager.
Nicole Kurek was born in Saarland in 1974. She studied education, sociology, and social psychology at Saarland University. She received her MBA, majoring in Finance, from FOM in Munich in 2012.
Markus Scaglioso
Markus Scaglioso has been appointed to the Executive Board with responsibility for the Sales & Service portfolio with effect from 1 June 2025. From 2000 to 2007, he took on various roles in industrial, strategy and sales management at Festo GmbH. Since 2007, Markus Scaglioso has held various management roles for SICK, including strategic industrial management. He has been a member of the Management Board of SICK since 2015. He held his last role as Senior Vice President Sales & Service since the beginning of 2023.
Markus Scaglioso was born in Ostfildern in 1974. He studied industrial engineering at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences with a focus on technical sales and sales communication.
Dr. Niels Syassen
Dr. Niels Syassen has held the position of Director of the Technology & Solutions division at SICK AG since February 1, 2025. He joined the company in 2017 and, as a member of the Management Board, has been responsible for innovations in the Gas and Particle Analysis Solutions department since 2018. Before this he held various management roles in the sensor technology product development area in the Automotive Electronics Division at Bosch, and in the Safety Technology Division at Dräger. On October 1, 2021 he was appointed as Director of the Technology & Digitalization division.
Niels Syassen was born in Düsseldorf in 1977. He studied physics, with a particular interest in lasers, optics and semiconductors, at the Technical University of Munich and at the Imperial College in London. He gained his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in 2008.
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Shareholder representatives
Dr. Robert Bauer, Emmendingen (Chairman)
Former Chairman of the Executive Board of SICK AGSebastian Glaser, Munich
Managing Partner of SICK Holding GmbH, Freiburg i. Br.Thomas Kusterer, Ettlingen
Member of the Executive Board of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, KarlsruheProf. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto, Dortmund
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST, DortmundDorothea Sick-Thies, Starnberg
Founder and Sole Shareholder of Protect the Planet gGmbH, MunichDr. Eberhard Veit, Göppingen
Managing Partner of 4.0-Veit GbR, GöppingenEmployee representatives
Susanne Tröndle, Waldkirch (Deputy Chairwoman)
Consultant Compensation & BenefitsThomas Franz, Sexau
Senior Vice President Operations of SICK AGNorbert Göbelsmann, Freiburg i. Br.
Chief Authorized Representative of IG Metall Freiburg i. Br.Dr. Matthias Müller, Braunschweig
Former Head of Finance on the Federal Executive Board for the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), BerlinGabriele Pontiggia, Winden
Speaker for HR Organizational & People Development at SICK AGThomas Weckopp, Korschenbroich
Chairman of the Works Council of SICK Vertriebs-GmbH, Düsseldorf