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Hilgers joins Bossard executive committee 27 August 2015

Bossard Group recently announced that Frank Hilgers has joined its executive committee – taking on group wide responsibility of category management for brand products and engineered fastening solutions.

Hilgers joined Bossard with the acquisition of KVT-Fastening, and has headed these business units since 1st December 2012. He has been appointed to join the Group executive committee and will be responsible, in addition to his current managerial functions, for global category management.
Before joining Bossard, Frank Hilgers was a member of the KVT-Koenig management team in charge of sales, product management and the fastening systems division. From 2007 to 2009 he was in charge of Continental’s spare parts business and key account management in the commercial and special vehicle segment. From 2004 to 2007, he headed group strategy and business development at Siemens VDO Automotive and was in this capacity instrumental in the turnaround and sale of this Siemens segment. As senior manager for strategy, Frank Hilgers was in charge of major international projects at Accenture from 1997 until 2004, and was responsible for automotive suppliers and the shareholder value initiative in the German-speaking countries.

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