May 16, 2011

Changing of the guard at IVAM: Kleinkes obtains a call for a professorship – Hippler becomes CEO

May 16, 2011
IVAM faces a change in the management: Heinz-Peter Hippler follows Uwe Kleinkes, who obtained a call for a professorship for technology marketing at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences. Heinz-Peter Hippler has been sales manager at NanoFocus AG at Oberhausen and is very familiar with the IVAM community. “We have a well organized change in the management and with Heinz-Peter Hippler we are in an excellent position to continue IVAM’s success story”, says chairman of the board Dr. Frank Bartels. The board congratulated Uwe Kleinkes on the professorship and expressed thanks for ten years of successful work. During Dr. Uwe Kleinkes’ period of office the number of IVAM members grew from 100 to 300 companies and institutes and the internationalization was driven forward.

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