Aixtron has announced two changes to its supervisory board. Dr Holger Jürgensen (deputy chairman of the supervisory board) and Karl-Hermann Kuklies (ordinary member of the supervisory board) have informed the management board of their resignation from office with immediate effect.
After being a research associate at RWTH Aachen University’s Institut for Semiconductor Technology from 1981 to 1985 then co-founding Aixtron in 1983, Jürgensen was a member of Aixtron’s executive board from 1997 to 2002 (while being president and joint CEO of Aixtron) and became deputy chairman of the supervisory board in 2002.
After teaching at Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium (Heinrich Heine High School), Bottrop secondary school from 1981 to 1997 then being a managing partner with management firm KAWEK Beteiligungs-GmbH from 1997 to 2008, Kuklies has been a supervisory board member since 1997.
Suitable successors will be proposed for election at the firm’s next annual general meeting on 23 May.
