Effective from January 1, 2013, Voith Engineering Services will see a new business executive: Jens Pohl will be taking over the lead of Voith Engineering Services in the Group Division Voith Industrial Services.

The 45-year-old mechanical engineer comes from the engineering services provider MBtech. There he served as member of management for sales, marketing and purchasing and was also responsible for the worldwide subsidiaries. Pohl started his career in 1994 at the former Mercedes-Benz AG, now Daimler AG, where he performed various operative and strategic international management tasks in the passenger car division, at the group headquarters, and in its affiliates.

Jens Pohl brings along comprehensive international expertise in the automotive industry and a wide-ranging knowledge of the aerospace and other high-tech branches. At Voith, he will be responsible for the Engineering Services in the sectors Aerospace, Road and Rail. In this function he will succeed Thomas Mauthe who will be leaving Voith at the end of the year.

Voith sets standards in the markets energy, oil & gas, paper, raw materials and transportation & automotive. Founded in 1867, Voith employs almost 40,000 people, generates € 5.6 billion in sales, operates in about 50 countries around the world and is today one of the biggest family-owned companies in Europe.