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Bosch Rexroth appoints Thomas Fechner and RolandBittenauer to the Board of Management and focuses onfurther growth
Jan Saeger | 05.05.2023 | Lohr am Main / Germany

Thomas Donato moves to Bosch Power Tools to become President there••

New structure of Board of Management supports focus on proﬁtable growth

Factory Automation and Sales/Marketing to be split into two areas of responsibility

Left: Roland Bittenauer, from June 1, 2023, member of the board of management with respon-sibility for sales andmarketing; right: Thomas Fechner, from June 1, 2023, member of the board of management and responsible for factory
automation (image source: Bosch Rexroth).

Bosch Rexroth is changing the setup of its Board of Management with a view to further
business growth. From June 1, Roland Bittenauer (52) will assume responsibility for global
sales and marketing. Thomas Fechner (52) will be responsible for the factory automation
business from the same date. Thomas Donato (51), previously responsible for both ﬁelds,
will switch to Power Tools within the Bosch Group and become President there. As of June 1,
the Board of Management of Bosch Rexroth thus comprises ﬁve members: Dr. Steffen Haack,Holger von Hebel, Roland Bittenauer, Thomas Fechner and Reinhard Schäfer.
Bosch Rexroth plans to continue to grow faster than the market, with the factory automation
business expected to grow particularly strongly. The new setup of the Board of Management
supports these growth plans: The tasks previously covered by Donato will be split into two
independent areas of responsibility. This will allow Bittenauer to concentrate fully on his areaof responsibility in his capacity as chief sales and marketing oﬃcer. With Fechner, the factory
automation business is now for the ﬁrst time in the responsibility of a board member who has noother functional duties.
“Since the beginning of 2022, Thomas Donato has given impetus in mobile hydraulics and later insales, marketing, and factory automation, thus contributing to the very successful developmentof the Bosch Rexroth business. I would like to sincerely thank him for his commitment to Bosch
Rexroth and wish him every success in his new role at Power Tools," says Dr. Markus Forschner,
CFO of the Bosch Group and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bosch Rexroth AG. “WithRoland Bittenauer as chief sales and marketing oﬃcer and Thomas Fechner in charge of ourPRESS INFORMATION
factory automation business, we have appointed two experts to the management board of Bosch
Rexroth who have already set the course for further development in their previous roles. Now,
as part of the management board team, they will drive proﬁtable growth with the even clearer
allocation of responsibilities.”
Bittenauer has been with Bosch Rexroth since the spring of 2021 and is responsible for salesin Germany, Austria and Switzerland – the company’s region with the highest sales. Previously,
the Austrian held senior sales positions at Parker Hanniﬁn and the Austrian company Hainzl
Industrie¬systeme. Bittenauer completed his engineering training at the HTL Steyr in the ﬁeld ofautomotive and mechanical engineering. As of June 1, Wolfram Ulrich, currently sales manager
in the Large Hydraulic Drives business unit, whose products are marketed under the Hägglunds
brand, will assume responsibility for sales in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Fechner joined the Bosch Group in 1998 and has held various engineering and management
positions at Bosch Rexroth since 2009. Since 2021, the automation and software expert hasheaded the Automation & Electriﬁcation Solutions business unit based in Lohr. With the ctrlX
AUTOMATION modular automation system, they offer a core element of the factory automation
business of Bosch Rexroth. Furthermore, Fechner is responsible for the Ulm location where thecompany has been operating a customer and innovation center since 2019. Fechner studied
physics at the University of Stuttgart. As of June 1, Dr. Maik Rabe will take over the managementof the Automation & Electriﬁcation Solutions business unit. He will retain his previous role ashead of development.
As one of the world’s leading suppliers of drive and control technologies, Bosch Rexroth
ensures eﬃcient, powerful and safe movement in machines and systems of any size. Thecompany bundles global application experience in the market segments of Mobile and Industrial
Applications as well as Factory Automation. With its intelligent components, customized systemsolutions, engineering and services, Bosch Rexroth is creating the necessary environment for
fully connected applications. Bosch Rexroth offers its customers hydraulics, electric drive andcontrol technology, gear technology and linear motion and assembly technology, including
software and interfaces to the Internet of Things. With locations in over 80 countries, more than
32,000 associates generated sales revenue of around 7.0 billion euros in 2022.

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As one of the world’s leading suppliers of drive and control technologies, Bosch Rexroth
ensures eﬃcient, powerful and safe movement in machines and systems of any size. Thecompany bundles global application experience in the market segments of Mobile and Industrial
Applications as well as Factory Automation. With its intelligent components, customized systemsolutions, engineering and services, Bosch Rexroth is creating the necessary environment for
fully connected applications. Bosch Rexroth offers its customers hydraulics, electric drive andcontrol technology, gear technology and linear motion and assembly technology, including
software and interfaces to the Internet of Things. With locations in over 80 countries more than
32,000 associates generated sales revenue of around 7.0 billion euros in 2022.

Basic Information BoschThe Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly
421,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2022). The company generated sales of 88.2

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billion euros in 2022. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial
Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider,
Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Boschis pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise insensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers
connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective isto facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artiﬁcial intelligence(AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life
worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Boschcreates technology that is “Invented for life.” The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbHand its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales andservice partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly
every country in the world. The basis for the company’s future growth is its innovative strength.
At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 85,500 associates in research anddevelopment, of which nearly 44,000 are software engineers.

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