Lengthy-standing CEO Dr. Dietmar Ley is stepping down on the finish of the yr. His successor would be the present CCO/COO Hardy Mehl. Exterior appointment to the CTO place by Dr. Kai Jens Ströder.
Ahrensburg, October 30, 2025 – The Supervisory Board of Basler AG declares adjustments to the Administration Board. The contract of CEO Dr. Dietmar Ley will expire on the finish of 2025. After greater than 25 years as CEO, Dietmar Ley has expressed his want to not lengthen his mandate for private causes and has requested the Supervisory Board to discover a successor. It’s meant that Ley will proceed to assist the corporate in an advisory capability and, on the request of the bulk shareholder, will transfer to the Supervisory Board.
Hardy Mehl, who has been with the corporate since 1999 and on the Administration Board since 2014, will take over the CEO place within the three-member Administration Board and can be answerable for Gross sales, Operations, Human Sources, and Investor Relations. Chief Monetary Officer (CFO) Ines Brückel will proceed to be answerable for Finance, Controlling, Authorized, and Compliance. Dr. Kai Jens Ströder, an skilled supervisor, will be part of the corporate on January 1, 2026. Since 2009, he has held numerous positions at Carl Zeiss AG and tooz applied sciences GmbH, a deep tech start-up within the subject of optical techniques for augmented actuality purposes owned by Deutsche Telekom AG and Carl Zeiss AG. He’ll fill the newly created place of Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and can be answerable for Product Technology and Innovation sooner or later.
For founder and Supervisory Board Chairman Norbert Basler, the change within the CEO place marks the tip of an period within the firm’s historical past: “Dietmar Ley has led the corporate extraordinarily efficiently for over twenty years, guiding it via necessary strategic choices along with your complete Administration Board and leaving a decisive mark on it. On behalf of your complete Supervisory Board, and likewise personally, I want to specific my honest thanks for his achievements and his a few years of dedication. On the similar time, we all know that with the brand new administration workforce, the corporate is in wonderful, professionally expert, and skilled palms. We want the brand new administration workforce each success.”
Dietmar Ley sums up: “After greater than three many years at Basler, I look again with gratitude and satisfaction on a assorted and fulfilling time. Now we have developed the corporate from a start-up to one of many world’s main suppliers of laptop imaginative and prescient expertise, mastering many challenges collectively, driving innovation and actively shaping the transformation of our business. It has been an honor to be a part of the Basler workforce for thus lengthy and to steer this improvement. I want our new administration workforce each success, braveness, and the identical ardour with which we now have labored collectively to this point.”
