Dirk Hejnal will become new Managing Director of GEA WestfaliaSurge GmbH in Bönen from 1st June 2008. He will thus take on the office of Division President of the GEA Farm Technologies Division from Holger Heinrich who since 1st April 2008 has held the position of Manager of GEA Westfalia Separator in Oelde, which also belongs to the GEA Group. Together with Dirk Hejnal, Dr. Ulrich Hüllmann will enter the Management Board of GEA WestfaliaSurge GmbH as Deputy Managing Director with responsibility for the financial area. Both members of the Management Board can draw on several years of career experience within the GEA Group and have occupied various positions with great success.

“The new Management Board will press on with the profitable and successful growth course at GEA WestfaliaSurge GmbH. Dirk Hejnal and Dr. Ulrich Hüllmann will consistently pursue the path to becoming a full supplier of animal management systems so that we can successfully meet the future demands of professional farmers.”, commented Jürg Oleas, The Chairman of the Board of the GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, on the change of management.

Dirk Hejnal (42) has worked within the GEA WestfaliaSurge organisation since he left school and took on positions of increasing responsibility within the sales area. Since 1992 Hejnal has been working for GEA WestfaliaSurge in the USA and since 2000 he has been in charge of the American subsidiary company as Managing Director. He is married and has three sons.

Dr. Hüllmann (39) has worked since 2002 for what today is the GEA Group. After various positions in the controlling area he was most recently Manager of Group Controlling for the GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft in Bochum. He too is married and has three children.

Until today, Dr. Jörn Pulczynski was active as Deputy Managing Director and will be leaving the organisation to the 31st Mai 2008. GEA WestfaliaSurge wants to thank Dr. Jörn Pulczynski for his contribution to the sucessful development of the division in the past and wish him all the best for his personal and professional future.

GEA WestfaliaSurge is a company within the GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft (Bochum) with operational companies in around 50 countries and forms the Farm Technologies Division within the GEA Group. GEA WestfaliaSurge employs around 1,900 employees, is the premium partner for the agricultural industry and is at the forefront worldwide in the provision of products and services for professional dairy farming. The company ensures that milk producers worldwide are able to profitably produce top-class milk. 

The GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft is an internationally active technology concern which concentrates on the construction of specialist machinery with a particular emphasis on process technology and components. In the business year 2007 the company turnover was 5.2 billion euros. Up to 31st March 2008 the company employed more than 20,000 employees. In 90 percent of its business areas the GEA Group AG is among the leaders in the market and in technology. The GEA Group is quoted in the German MDAX Index (G1A, WKN 660200).