DGAP-Ad hoc: M.A.X. Automation AG

DGAP-Adhoc: Management Board of M.A.X. Automation AG expanded - Daniel Fink appointed CEO

M.A.X. Automation AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel

05.02.2016 13:29

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Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Section 15 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG)

M.A.X. Automation AG, Breite Strasse 29-31, 40213 Düsseldorf

WKN (German Securities Identification Number): 658090 / ISIN: DE0006580905 [Frankfurt Stock Exchange - Regulated Market]

Management Board of M.A.X. Automation AG expanded - Daniel Fink appointed CEO

Düsseldorf, February 5, 2016 - The Supervisory Board of M.A.X. Automation AG (WKN: 658090 / ISIN: DE 0006580905) has appointed Mr. Daniel Fink (54) as the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect as of April 1, 2016. Fink will manage the business of the international operating hightech mechanical engineering specialist together with Fabian Spilker (42), who has been active as Management Board member since 2013 and remains Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Daniel Fink, who has been appointed for a three-year period, succeeds former CEO Bernd Priske, who stepped down in March 2015.

Daniel Fink draws on many years of management activity in various industrial sectors, especially in the project business and plant engineering areas, and has acquired extensive experience in tenures abroad. Since 2012, he has been active as partner at Swiss management consultants FinkRen GmbH. Prior to this assignment, between 2008 and 2012, Mr. Fink was President of the Warehouse & Distribution Solutions Division at Swisslog AG. Between 1994 and 2008, he held various managerial positions at the globally operating industrial group Georg Fischer AG, including posts in the USA and Shanghai.

Contact: M.A.X. Automation AG, Breite Strasse 29-31, 40213 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0)211 90 991-0

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