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Heads Published: October 12th, 2022

12.10.22_Personalien_

Wei Xiaoxue took over the position of managing director at Neuberger Berman China on October 10. In the Shanghai-based subsidiary of the US investment firm, Wei’s responsibilities will include driving investment strategy development, leading the equity research team and overseeing portfolio risk management.Christina Gruschka joined Porsche China this month as Manager of Charging Strategy. Gruschka […]

Heads Published: October 11th, 2022

Sigrid Maurer – the provocateur as political realist

Sigrid “Sigi” Maurer doesn’t have much time to talk today. On the agenda are phone call after phone call about the accident at OMV in the summer (was it sabotage after all?), negotiations with coalition partner ÖVP about rising energy prices, a party meeting in the evening and Industry Day. As head of the Green […]

Heads Published: October 11th, 2022

Personnel 11.10.2022

Julian Thormaehlen has joined Airbus as Global Material Manager Final Assembly Line for USA and China. Juergen Knott has left the Aschaffenburg-based automotive supplier SAF-Holland, where he served as Head of China. In the future, Knott will work for the Japanese battery and fuel cell specialist Horiba as Managing Director.Is something changing in your organization? […]

Heads Published: October 11th, 2022

Ioana Kraft – pioneer in Shanghai

In 2003, Ioana Kraft was one of the China pioneers whose significance only becomes clear in retrospect. At the time, she was greeted by white figures in full-body protective suits upon her first arrival in Shanghai. Back then, the first original SARS (still without “-CoV-2”) was raging in China. “Little did I know that 20 […]

Heads Published: October 10th, 2022

10.10.22_Personnel

Richard Schleipen has joined Starteam Global as General Manager China & Asia Sales Director. The Hong Kong-based company has been manufacturing printed circuit boards for the automotive, medical and railroad industries for more than 30 years. Schleipen has many years of experience in China. He has worked for the CML Group in Shenzhen and Shanghai, […]

Heads Published: October 10th, 2022

Josie-Marie Perkuhn – via Mexico to China

Perkuhn’s path to China first leads via Mexico. There, she worked as an au pair in 2003. In the southern Mexican province of Oaxaca, a play about Pacific sea voyages sparks her interest in East Asia. She is left with strong impressions; in Germany, Perkuhn digs through the descriptions of the study courses and decides […]

Heads Published: October 7th, 2022

Executive Moves 7.10.2022

Jörg Storm has returned from China for Mercedes-Benz. He was CIO of Mercedes-Benz Taiwan & Hong Kong and Director IT Service & Parts at the Beijing site. Today he is the Global Head of IT Infrastructure in Stuttgart.Li Quan is now not only the CEO but also the Chairman of New China Life Insurance. His […]

Heads Published: October 6th, 2022

Nicolai von Ondarza – EU policy researcher

“The EU must succeed in bringing the two processes of internal reform and further opening from a geostrategic perspective together,” says Nicolai von Ondarza. As head of the EU/Europe research group at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the committed European deals with the fundamental issues of the EU, such as its […]

Heads Published: October 6th, 2022

06.10.2022_Personalien

Ulf Roeller will report on the European Union from Brussels for the German public broadcaster ZDF with immediate effect. Roeller was a ZDF correspondent in Beijing until recently. He succeeds Anne Gellinek as head of the Brussels studio. Is something changing in your organization? Why not let us know at heads@table.media!

Heads Published: October 5th, 2022

05.10.22_fpe_Personalien_

Will Ripley is to become Chief Correspondent in the new Taiwan bureau of the US news channel CNN. Based in Taipei, the network plans to report on Taiwan’s “increasingly pivotal role.” Previously, Ripley worked for CNN in Hong Kong. Already during that time, he conducted exclusive interviews with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and Foreign Minister […]