Board of directors

Upon completion of his business administration studies at the University of Bayreuth, Michael Knopp started out on his professional career as an auditing assistant at the auditing company Wollert-Elmendorff Deutsche Industrie-Treuhand GmbH. In the year 1996, the native of Münster assumed the role of financial analyst at Sensormatic Electronics GmbH., Ratingen, where he was responsible for the coordination, consolidation, and analysis of quarterly and annual financial statements of the European subsidiaries. Following two years of employment in subsidiary management at Gerresheimer Glas AG, Michael Knopp took over the commercial management of REALTECH AG, located in Walldorf, in 1999, where he was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer in the year 2001. He was additionally responsible for the national companies in the Asia-Pacific region and USA, where he successfully implemented a complete turnaround and reorientation.
Before assuming his position as Chief Financial Officer at SUSS MicroTec AG, Mr. Knopp was commercial managing director of Kemmax GmbH located in Essen, as well as CFO of International Operations of the Canadian parent company Chemtrade Logistics.