After 51 years at WAFIOS, Martin Holder has stepped down from the executive board and is starting his retirement, with the new executive board made up of Dr Ing Uwe-Peter Weigmann, speaker of the board, as well as new members Dipl Ing Jörg Eisele and Dipl Ing Martin Mayer.
Dr Ing Uwe-Peter Weigmann studied forming technology at Technische Universität Berlin. During his doctoral studies, he worked with Prof Dr Günter Spur as a senior engineer in the field of manufacturing technology and machine tools and obtained a doctorate in the same area. He has been part of the executive board, heading up Engineering, since 2008. In 2012, he was appointed speaker and broadened his remit to include HR and assumed responsibility for Sales and Finance in 2017.
Jörg Eisele joined the company back in 2004. After successfully completing his degree in mechanical engineering, Eisele began his career at WAFIOS as an assistant to the head of design, where he focused on developing innovation management. Alongside his work, he studied for an MBA at the Technical University of Munich, which he completed in 2009. At WAFIOS he went on to lead the tool center and, later, the technical development department for various machine areas.
Since 2017, Jörg has been responsible for the entire tube and wire division, including the technical development, sales and commissioning departments for various machines, such as spring coiling, wire bending, CNC tube bending, straightening, chain manufacturing and eMobility machines. As of 2021, he also assumed overall responsibility for sales at WAFIOS.
Martin Mayer joined WAFIOS AG in February 2023 and is responsible for the tool centre and mechanical production. After successfully completing his degree in mechanical engineering, majoring in design and development, at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, he joined NAGEL Maschinen- und Werkzeugfabrik GmbH in Nürtingen as a development engineer in 2007. Mayer left the company 15 years later as technical director.
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