Third-generation Endress to lead family business

The Managing Director of Endress+Hauser’s UK sales centre, David Newell, has announced his retirement after serving the company for thirty years. He will be replaced by Steven Endress, the first third-generation member of the Endress family to take an operational role in the family business. Steven’s father, Hans-Peter Endress, the former Managing Director and current Chairman of Endress+Hauser UK, will relinquish his duties as Chairman but remain on the Group’s Supervisory Board. David Newell boasts 42 years of experience in the process automation industry, of which he dedicated three decades to Endress+Hauser. He will retire on 30 September 2016, satisfied in the knowledge that he leaves Endress+Hauser as one of the leading suppliers for process instrumentation in the UK. Mr Newell, who is 65, joined Endress+Hauser in 1986. He became Director of Sales in 1997 and then Director of Sales & Marketing in 2002. After being promoted to Deputy General Manager in 2010, he assumed responsibility for the entire operation two years later. David Newell is married with two grown children and the proud grandfather of two grandchildren. Third-generation assumes responsibility The new Managing Director of Endress+Hauser UK, effective 1 October 2016, is Steven Endress, who is currently Director of Services at the UK sales centre. Prior to joining the company in 2012, he spent ten years in the software development industry. His last position was Vice President of Sales at AppSense Inc. in Munich, Germany where he was responsible for the German, Austrian and Swiss markets. Steven Endress holds a degree in business studies and subsequently received an MBA from Lancaster University. Married with two children, the 37-year-old is the eldest son of Chairman Hans-Peter Endress and grandson of the company’s founder, Georg H Endress. With Steven Endress taking over the management, Hans-Peter Endress (69) will relinquish his duties as Chairman of the Board at Endress+Hauser UK and concentrate on his work with the Supervisory Board of the Endress+Hauser Group.

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