ZEISS Plans for 2025 CEO Transition

The supervisory board of Carl Zeiss AG has appointed Andreas Pecher president and CEO of the company. The appointment will be effective April 1, 2025 and follows current CEO Karl Lamprecht’s decision not to seek a contract extension.

Pecher joined ZEISS in 2013 and has been a member of the executive board, responsible for the ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) segment since 2022. He joined the company as head of strategic business development for SMT and has held management roles including head of the Semiconductor Mask Solutions and the Semiconductor Manufacturing Optics strategic business units.

Andreas Pecher (left) will serve as president and CEO of Carl Zeiss AG effective April 1, 2025. He will succeed Karl Lamprecht (right), who has decided not to extend his contract. Courtesy of Carl Zeiss AG.

Lamprecht has served as CEO of ZEISS since April 2020, having joined the company in 2005 as head of strategic business development for the SMT segment. He assumed responsibility for the entire segment as a member of the executive board of Carl Zeiss AG in 2018. In addition to serving as a member of the supervisory board of Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Lamprecht also serves on the supervisory board of Körber AG and as chairman of the University Council of Aalen University.

Frank Rohmund succeeds Pecher as a member of the executive board and head of the SMT segment effective Jan. 1, 2025. Rohmund currently heads the Semiconductor Manufacturing Optics (SMO) strategic business unit. The board also extended the contracts of Susan-Stefanie Breitkopf and Sven Hermann by five years.