Rainer dog villages Hans-Jochen Beilke (62) as planned to the 30.09.2012 retirement follows on Hans-Jochen Beilke after six years as CEO of ebm-papst group pulling back. His successor at the world’s leading manufacturer of fans and motors is Rainer dog villages from September 2012. Dog villages comes from the engineering group and automotive supplier Schaeffler AG. He was at Schaeffler since 2008 Chairman of the industry and a member of the Executive Board. The 54-year old began his career with Trumpf at Ditzingen. Dog villages is already familiar with the region: from 2003 to 2008 was Rainer dog Dowd, Chairman of the Board at Weinig AG, a manufacturer of machines and systems for the wood processing industry in the Baden-Wurttemberg Tauberbischofsheim, Germany. The shareholder from ebm-papst are pleased that they have won an internationally experienced Manager with Rainer dog villages, which successfully will continue to develop the company group in continuity to Hans-Jochen Beilke.

Press contact Hauke Hannig spokesman ebm-papst group ebm – papst Mulfingen GmbH & co. KG Bachmuhle 2 74673 Mulfingen phone: + 49 7938 81-7105 fax: + 49 7938 81-97105 about ebm-papst the ebm-papst group of the world’s leading manufacturer of fans and motors and is pacing the high efficiency EC technology. In the past financial year 11/12, the company generated revenues of nearly 1.4 billion. ebm-papst employs approximately 11,000 employees at 17 production sites (e.g. in Germany, China, United States) and 57 sales locations.