Hanno D. Wentzler
Chairman of the Board
President & CEO
Hanno D. Wentzler has been President & CEO of Freudenberg Chemical Specialities since 2004. He also serves as Regional Representative of Freudenberg China and is chairman of Freudenberg Management (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. Mr. Wentzler, aged 55, belongs to the fifth generation of the Freudenberg family and has followed an international career path. After completing his MBA at Boston University, he joined the investment bank J.P. Morgan, holding positions in New York and Frankfurt. He came to the Freudenberg Group in 1986 to take up a leadership role in marketing and sales at Freudenberg Simrit in Kufstein, Austria, before moving to Freudenberg Dichtungs- und Schwingungstechnik in Weinheim, Germany. Currently, Mr. Wentzler is chairman of the board at Klüber Lubrication, a position he has held for nine years.
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