
Press Release
Aurubis AG appoints Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operations Officer, completing the restructuring of the Executive Board
Hamburg | Thursday, June 20, 2024


The Aurubis AG Supervisory Board met today and appointed Dr. Toralf Haag (58) new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Tim Kurth (56) new Chief Operations Officer for custom smelting — effective September 1, 2024. This completes the restructuring of the Aurubis Executive Board announced in January 2024
With the appointments of Dr. Toralf Haag and Tim Kurth, the Executive Board will initially consist of the following members starting September 1, 2024: Dr. Toralf Haag (CEO), the two COOs Inge Hofkens and Tim Kurth, and Prof. Markus Kramer (Chief Transformation Officer, CTO). Prof. Kramer will be recalled to the Supervisory Board as planned on September 30, 2024. Current CEO Roland Harings (60) will hand over the reins as of August 31, 2024, and the appointment of Dr. Haag will ensure a smooth transfer.
As announced in January 2024, Rainer Verhoeven will be leaving the company as CFO effective June 30, 2024. In the interim period from July 1 to September 30, 2024, Prof. Kramer will assume the responsibilities of CFO in addition to his role as CTO. On October 1, Steffen Alexander Hoffmann will take over as CFO.
Future CEO Dr. Toralf Haag has a wide range of industry experience. After completing a business degree at the University of Augsburg and receiving a doctorate from the University of Kiel, Dr. Toralf Haag joined Thyssen Handelsunion AG in Düsseldorf in 1994. From 1994 to 2001, he held various management positions in the ThyssenKrupp Group, including four years in the US. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Haag served as CFO of the Norddeutsche Affinerie AG, today Aurubis AG, before taking a position as CFO of Swiss chemical and pharmaceutical company Lonza Group AG in 2005. He joined the Executive Board of the Voith Group in October 2016, where he has served as acting CEO since October 2018.
With Toralf Haag, we have succeeded in winning a proven industry expert over to Aurubis who will lead the company with great strategic vision.

Prof. Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt
Supervisory Board member representing the shareholders
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Christoph Tesch
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Meino Hauschildt
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