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ECCO’s Supervisory Board has decided to expand the company’s Managing Board from three to five members.
Joining the Managing Board will be Annemette Nøhr (44), Executive Vice President, Finance/Group CFO, and Andreas Wortmann (41), Executive Vice President, Branding and Products.
Both executive vice presidents have been with ECCO for a number of years, making substantial contributions to recent years’ sharply improved profit performances. They will join CEO Dieter Kasprzak, COO Mikael Thinghuus and Jens Christian Meier, Executive Vice President, Production.
Annemette Nøhr holds an MSc in auditing. She joined ECCO ten years ago as head of corporate accounting after a few years of working as an accountant in Denmark and the United States. Annemette Nøhr was appointed Senior Vice President, Finance/CFO of ECCO in 2004.
Andreas Wortmann joined ECCO in 2002 in charge of ECCO’s Ladies collection. In 2004, he took over ECCO’s overall branding operations. Andreas Wortmann trained in the shoe business in Germany. Before joining ECCO, he held a number of senior management positions with MSC Group in Germany and Switzerland and with Mephisto Shoes in France.
ECCO Chairperson Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak made the following statement about the appointments: “I’m very pleased that we’ve been able to appoint two extremely skilled and experienced ECCO people to our Managing Board. ECCO is currently experiencing a period of growth, putting great demands on everyone in our organisation, and it is essential for us to have the most skilled people on our management team. Both Annemette and Andreas are extremely competent and enjoy great respect in the ECCO organisation.”