Joachim Gessner new Finance Director Germany

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Effective from 1st August 2013, Joachim Gessner (45) has been nominated at the Supervisory Board meeting on 25 July 2013, as Alstom Germany Country Finance Director.

Joachim Gessner has been with Areva, then Alstom Grid for more than 12 years. He has developed his experience in a number of operational Finance roles in an international environment based in Germany and in France. For the time being, Gessner also is Vice President Finance for Alstom Grid in CEER and managing director of the German Grid entities. This dual responsibility will remain in place for a transition period until Joachims permanent successor in his Grid role is appointed, after which he will assume the full Country Finance Director scope. He will then be based in Frankfurt and Mannheim.

We are happy to welcome Joachim Gessner as experienced financial specialists to our board. In the course of his career he has until now worked in different international companies in the industrial sector in nearly every field that the financial sector has to offer, says Alf Henryk Wulf, CEO of ALSTOM Deutschland AG.

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