The Supervisory Board of beyerdynamic announces the appointment of Robert Winterhoff as managing director with responsibility for Global Sales and Marketing.
Since 1st November 2015 he forms the top-management together with the company’s long standing managing director Wolfgang Luckhardt.
As a part of its ‘Fit for the Future’ strategy and in response to the company’s continued growth, this newly created position within beyerdynamic will strengthen the management team and goes hand in hand with other recent appointments within several key areas of the company’s global structure.
Winterhoff gained great appreciation within the audio industry working at Harman International for almost 20 years.
He held there a number of leading positions in sales & marketing, business development, program management, quality and operational excellence.
In his last position as director Global Sales Emerging Markets/ BRIC Winterhoff was responsible for the development and implementation of targeted strategies for the expansion of globally emerging markets in locations such as Brazil, China, India, Russia and more. He has an outstanding track record when it comes to the development of sales and service concepts and their operational implementation.
Professor Wolf Michael Nietzer, chairman of the Supervisory Board: “By this enlargement of the top management team and a split of responsibilities, resources will be freed to further enhance beyerdynamic‘s international growth and expand its market position.
“Winterhoff is a proud recipient of the “Harman Hero” award presented by Harman’s chairman and Executive Committee, for efforts that particularly embrace core values of Leadership, Conduct, Teamwork, Performance Culture and Cost Focus.
Winterhoff states: “I am excited to co-lead a company with such legacy in professional audio. I will continue to build on our 90 years long history to develop new ways to create, distribute and sell exciting products and services to customers and partners across the globe.”