Committee Members
Daryush ARABNIA
President & CEO
GEICO TAIKISHA
Thomas BERGER
Vice President Automotive Systems
EISENMANN
Matthew BOLAND
Vice President- Global Transportation Technology
AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS
William BRUNAT
Technical Director Automotive Coatings EMEA
PPG
Anne-Catherine Basset
Paint and Plastics Process Engineering - General Manager
RENAULT
Ralf DUNKEL
General Manager Business Unit Painted Body
MAGNA STEYR
Ahmet Dogan
General Manager Material Engineering Division
TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
Klaus-Peter ECKHARDT
Acting Director Materials Engineering and Paint
OPEL AUTOMOBILE
Lars Friedrich
President & CEO
DÜRR SYSTEMS
Chris GLOBE
Senior Manager, Paint & Plant Engineering Advance Manufacturing Engineering
JAGUAR LAND ROVER
Maxime GOLDBERG
Director of Sales
PPG REVOCOAT
Takeshi Goto
Director Engineering
NISSAN MOTOR CORPORATION
Christophe Gruat
Paint Materials and Process Director
PSA GROUPE
Manfred HOLZMUELLER
Regional Steering Unit Head OEM Assembly Automotive & Metals Industries, Europe
HENKEL
Tim Hayes
International President
SURCAR
Thomas Heusser
Head of Technology Development Materials and Process Engineering
AUDI
1994 Quality Management Paintshop Ingolstadt; Neckarsulm 2002 Head of Paintshop Product Planning AUDI Since 2013 Head of technology development / materials; process engineering
Jean-Marc KOPP
Global Segment Manager Automotive OEM
CHEMETALL
Marc LOIGEROT
General Manager
ACKH
Silvio Licitra
Head of Manufacturing Engineering Paint
FIAT CHRYSLER AUTOMOBILES
Gilbert Lotito
Automotive, Key Accounts & Systems Global Director
SAMES-KREMLIN
Jean-François ROLAND
Technical Director
NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS
Tony RUSSELL
Global Head of Paint Automation
ABB
Jürgen STIEGLER
Head of Early Phase product, product and process planning paint and finish
BMW
Takashi SUZUKI
Project General Manager, Paint & Finishing Design Department., Material Engineering Division
TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
André Thierig
Supervisor European Paint Engineering
FORD
38 yrs Living in Cologne, married 2 children Electrical Engineering Degree from university of applied science Cologne Joined Ford in 2000 in apprenticeship program Worked in various functions in paint for 17 years Fiesta paint shop Cologne 2002 – 2007 Joined Paint manufacturing engineering department in 2007 Key projects: 2009 – 2012 Installation and launch of new paintshop Ford Craiova/Romania 2012 – 2014 Installation and launch of new paintshop Ford Valencia/Spain New Transit Connect and Mondeo launch Since 2015, leader in paint manufacturing engineering for paint materials, product and environmental strategies for Ford of Europe
Marcus Treppschuh
Head of Paint Automation
ABB
Thierry VANNIER
Managing Director
FISCHER INSTRUMENTS
Laurent VAUCENAT
Global Key Account Director
BASF COATINGS