The Vaillant GmbH Supervisory Board has appointed Ralph Jakobs as a managing director of the company with effect from November 2019. Ralph Jakobs will be succeeding Dr.-Ing. Norbert Schiedeck as Managing Director Technology.
Dr.-Ing. Norbert Schiedeck has been Managing Director Technology since April 2014 and has held this position in addition to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in May last year.
Internationally Experienced Manager
Ralph Jakobs is an internationally experienced manager with substantial expertise in the areas that are relevant to the Vaillant Group’s technology operations. Having studied mechanical engineering at Aachen Technical University (RWTH), he joined the Volkswagen Group as a trainee in 1996.
His tasks at VW comprised a variety of areas, including production, quality management and project management. Later, he took over operational management functions in Germany and the United States. These functions covered a wide range of technical areas. From 2016 to May 2019, Ralph Jakobs headed as Vice President the research and development activities of a joint venture of the Volkswagen Group in China. There he was responsible for a workforce of 2,000.
