Wacker Neuson Names Martin Lehner its New CEO

The Supervisory Board of Wacker Neuson SE has named Martin Lehner, chief technology officer and current deputy CEO, as the successor to Cem Peksaglam, whose contract as CEO expires in August.

Michael Roth

July 12, 2017

Wacker Neuson39s international headquarters in Munich — Wacker Neuson's international headquarters in Munich.

The Supervisory Board of Wacker Neuson SE has named Martin Lehner, chief technology officer and current deputy CEO, as the successor to Cem Peksaglam, whose contract as CEO expires in August. Lehner will take on the role of CEO for Wacker Neuson next month.

Lehner has been a member of the executive board for 10 years, responsible for research and development, procurement, production and quality at the group level. Before the merger between Wacker and Neuson in 2007, Lehner was already a member of the managing board of Neuson Kramer Baumaschinen AG. He subsequently became head of the board.

For the time being, the executive board of Wacker Neuson SE will be comprised of three members: Lehner; Wilfried Trepels, chief financial officer currently responsible for finance, auditing and IT; and Alexander Greschner, responsible for sales, service, logistics and marketing.

Wacker Neuson is headquartered in Munich, with U.S. headquarters in Menomonee Falls, Wis.

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Michael Roth

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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.