May 2, 2021
New Marketing and Communications lead
Kathrin Sauter is Vice President Corporate Marketing & Communications at MANN+HUMMEL.
Ludwigsburg, May 2021 - The filtration specialist MANN+HUMMEL has extended its management team in the area of marketing and communications: Effective May 1, 2021, Kathrin Sauter has become Vice President Corporate Marketing & Communications at the globally active family-owned company. In this role, the 35-year-old will be responsible for global and cross-functional marketing and corporate communications. Gudmund Semb will remain in the position of Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and will focus more on brand strategy and digitalization.
Sauter has already been working in various marketing and communications positions for ten years: Her career began at the membrane manufacturer MICRODYN-NADIR. Here she was most recently Head of Marketing & Communication. After the company was acquired by MANN+HUMMEL in 2015, she quickly assumed the position of Manager Marketing Communications Industrial Filtration at MANN+HUMMEL. She then focused on the filtration specialist's Life Sciences & Environment business unit from 2017 onwards, lastly as Director Marketing Communications LS&E.
"I have full confidence in Kathrin Sauter and am delighted to welcome her to her new position. She has been working for MANN+HUMMEL for many years with outstanding commitment and inventiveness and complements the management team in the area of marketing and communications in an extremely valuable way. Both professionally and personally," says Gudmund Semb, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at MANN+HUMMEL.
As Vice President Corporate Marketing & Communications, she reports to President and CEO Kurk Wilks.