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Karl-Ulrich Köhler to join Corus as new COO
Jan 12, 2010
Dr. Karl-Ulrich Köhler
Dr. Karl-Ulrich Köhler
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Corus announced the appointment of Dr. Karl-Ulrich Köhler as its new Chief Operating Officer with effect from 1 February 2010.
Karl-Ulrich Köhler succeeds Rauke Henstra, who held the position until his retirement last year. He will report to Kirby Adams, Managing Director and CEO of Tata Steel Europe.
Karl-Ulrich Köhler, 53, will be based at IJmuiden in the Netherlands. He has worked during his 30-year steel industry career at the companies that today comprise ThyssenKrupp Steel, where he was most recently Chairman of the Executive Board and a Member of the Board of the parent company, ThyssenKrupp AG.
Until October he was President of Eurofer, the European steelmaking federation, in which role he succeeded former Corus CEO Philippe Varin. He brings to Corus a wealth of knowledge and experience of steelmaking in Europe, as well as of the European steel supply chain and customer base.
Born in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Karl-Ulrich Köhler studied metallurgy at Clausthal University of Technology, where he gained his doctorate in 1988. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary professorship in flat steel product technology by Freiberg University. Married with four children, Karl-Ulrich Köhler is a former member of the executive committee of the World Steel Association and Vice Chairman of VDEh, the German Iron and Steel Institute.
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