Irina Zschaler to join GNH Executive Board, Gabriele Henke to retire End of Month

Georg Nordmann Holding AG [GNH], the parent company of specialty chemicals and food ingredients distributor Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH [NRC] (Hamburg, Germany) announced that Irina Zschaler has been appointed member of Georg Nordmann Holding AG´s Executive Board, effective 01. July 2016 At the same time she remains Managing Director of Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH. Irina Zschaler is the successor to Gabriele Henke, who will be retiring 31. July 2016.

Irina Zschaler, who started her career at NRC in August 1989, initially worked in Product Management. Later she moved on to a Business Unit Manager position in the Coatings and Composites department. As of 2012 she was responsible for the subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), before being named Co-Managing Director of Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH for the divisions “Life Sciences” and “Coatings & Construction” as well as Finance, IT, and for the subsidiaries CEE, Neoquimica S.A. (Portugal) and prochem AG (Switzerland).

Gabriele Henke will be entering retirement at the end of July, after more than 30 years with Nordmann, Rassmann GmbH, having been Managing Director since 2008 and member of the Executive Board of Georg Nordmann Holding AG since 2013, NRC said in the statement.

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank her warmly for her many years of exceptionally successful and committed work on behalf of the GNH and NRC Group. In the crucial years of its development, she has helped the NRC Group become an internationally successful chemical distributor and made a major contribution to the company,’ Edgar E. Nordmann is quote saying.

Source: NRC press release

HGE / DCG – 06.07.2016