Personal data

Year of birth: 1966
Nationality: German
Professional qualifications: Ph.D. (Physics, University of Stuttgart), MBA (Universities of Augsburg/Pittsburgh)

Professional career

Before his Ph.D. as Dr. Ing. at the University of Stuttgart in 2001, Thomas Rohe (born 1966) studied Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 2009 and 2010 he completed an MBA course at the Universities of Augsburg and Pittsburgh (USA). Thomas Rohe began his professional career in 1994 at the Fraunhofer Institute ICT. In 2001, he joined the industry at Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH, where he was initially responsible for developing wafer scanner optics as a product manager. In 2005, he became head of the LIT-TM Technology Mechatronics department. From 2007 to 2014, he also worked for companies of the Carl Zeiss Group as Business Unit Manager and, most recently, as Senior Director of Operations in the Electron Microscopy Business Unit. He then assumed the position of Executive Board member and COO of Prueftechnik Dieter Busch AG, which was sold to the American Fortive Group and its subsidiary Fluke, respectively, in July 2019. Thomas Rohe has a high level of understanding of technology and manufacturing and relevant industry experience.

Memberships of statutory supervisory boards in Germany

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Memberships of comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises

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Member of the Management Board since May 1, 2021. Currently appointed to the Management Board until April 30, 2027.