Lenzing’s supervisory board appointed Stefan Doboczky as the new chairman of the management board (CEO) of Lenzing AG. Doboczky will assume his new role on June 1, 2015. He succeeds Peter Untersperger, who will step down from his role as CEO on May 31, 2015 at his own request.
 
Doboczky brings broad international management experience and extensive expertise in Asia to Lenzing. Since 1998, he has worked in various management positions for the Dutch Life Science & Material Science group Royal DSM in Europe and Asia. In his current role as member of the managing board, he has been responsible for the successful strategic repositioning of the global pharmaceutical businesses, for Corporate Operations & Responsible Care, as well as for the corporation’s growth agenda in the Asian markets. Doboczky holds a PhD in chemistry from the TU Wien and a MBA from Swiss Business School IMD.
 
“With his international industrial expertise, his close to ten years of management experience in Asia and his strong technical background, Stefan Doboczky will strengthen the management board team and is ideally suited to lead the Lenzing Group towards further growth,” says Hanno Bästlein, chairman of the nomination committee of the supervisory board of Lenzing.
 
Regarding his joining the management board of Lenzing, Doboczky says, “As an Austrian corporation of international caliber Lenzing AG stands for innovation and quality in the field of high-quality, man-made cellulose fibers. It will be a highly responsible and challenging task for me to make use of the company’s outstanding potential to further expand its technological leadership.”