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Managing Board

  Dr.-Ing. Joachim Schönbeck
Business Area SMS Meer

30 January 1964 Born in Bonn
1984 – 1989 Machine Engineering at Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
1992 Obtained degree of Doctor of Engineering
at the Technical University (TU) of Berlin

1989 Scientific Assistant to Prof. Spur at the Institute for Machine Tools and Production Engineering, TU of Berlin
1993 Mannesmann Demag AG, Duisburg
Various positions in Sales and Engineering;
Last position: Board Chairman of the „Casting and Hot Rolling“ Business Unit
2000 SMS Demag AG, Düsseldorf
Head of Continuous Casting Technology Division
2001 Siemens AG, Munich
Head of Division „Material Handling Automation Europe“

since 1 October 2004 President and CEO SMS Meer GmbH, Mönchengladbach
 Member of the Board of Management SMS group, Düsseldorf