New Chief Digital Officer at Samson

As of 1 Jan­u­ary 2019, Dr. Thorsten Pöt­ter will assume the posi­tion of Chief Dig­i­tal Offi­cer at Sam­son Aktienge­sellschaft in Frank­furt, Ger­many. He will be respon­si­ble for IT oper­a­tions and con­tin­u­ing the expan­sion of the dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture along the company‘s entire val­ue chain. Dr. Pöt­ter will suc­ceed Mr. Peter Knapp in this posi­tion, who left the com­pa­ny on 31 July 2018.

”We are delight­ed to have Thorsten Pöt­ter join us. As a rec­og­nized expert in dig­i­ti­za­tion in the process indus­try, his exper­tise will allow us to con­tin­ue the intense trans­for­ma­tion process already in progress at Samson.“
Dr. Andreas Widl, CEO of Samson

Dr. Thorsten Pöt­ter holds a doc­tor­al degree in chem­istry. He held var­i­ous posi­tions with­in Research and Devel­op­ment, Busi­ness IT and Oper­a­tional IT at Bay­er AG. In his last posi­tion, he was head of the Man­u­fac­tur­ing IT in the Engi­neer­ing & Tech­nol­o­gy divi­sion at Bay­er AG. He has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the devel­op­ment of the automa­tion and dig­i­ti­za­tion strat­e­gy and its imple­men­ta­tion for pro­duc­tion both at Bay­er AG and as a mem­ber of rep­re­sen­ta­tive boards and advo­ca­cy groups (NAMUR, VCI, Hans Böck­ler Foun­da­tion). In this capac­i­ty, Dr. Pöt­ter chairs the ”Enabling Indus­trie 4.0“ NAMUR work­ing group.