The Supervisory Board of Leifheit AG assigned a new Head of Board Department Operations and appointed Igor Iraeta Munduate as a member of the Board of Management (COO) effective by 1 November 2018. He will be responsible for Purchasing, Production, Logistics and R&D. Igor Iraeta Munduate thus takes over the areas of responsibility from Ansgar Lengeling, who left the Management Board in April 2018. Most recently Igor Iraeta Munduate was responsible for operations, innovation management as well as Industry 4.0 and IoT (Internet of Things) of the value chain as Chief Technical Officer & Senior Executive Global Operations at Igus GmbH. Prior to this he led R&D, Production and Quality Management at Stoba Präzisionstechnik GmbH & Co. KG as Technical Director. Furthermore, he has long-time experience in technical executive positions at the Robert Bosch GmbH. Igor Iraeta Munduate holds a degree in mechanical engineering of the Universidad de Navarra.