CLAAS executive board welcomes new member
21st July 2023
Long-time senior CLAAS employee Thomas Spiering will be joining the group’s executive board from 1st October 2023, where he will be overseeing the company’s self-propelled harvesters business unit.
Mr Spiering has worked for CLAAS for the past 22 years and is originally from Eastern Westphalia in Germany. After completing a degree in Business Administration, he took on various specialist and management roles in the areas of controlling, sales and finance in Germany and abroad.
In June 2015, he became CFO of CLAAS UK in Saxham, Suffolk, and from 2017 he was also CFO of CLAAS France and responsible for the Western Europe region in the sales and service business unit. Since July 2020, he has successfully managed the Middle Europe region as senior vice president.
Commenting on the appointment, Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser, chairwoman of the supervisory board at CLAAS, said: “We are delighted that with Thomas Spiering we have gained an experienced manager for this important role on the group executive board.
“He knows CLAAS like no other and, thanks to his various roles in Germany and abroad, he is ideally equipped for his new management task. We thank him for the excellent work he has done so far and wish him a good start and much success in his new role.”
Mr Spiering will be reporting directly to CLAAS CEO Jan-Hendrik Mohr and working closely with executive board members CFO Henner Böttcher, Dr Martin von Hoyningen-Huene (BUs Tractors & Forage, Technology & Systems Division) and Christian Radons (BU Sales & Service).
