Sympatex Technologies, a manufacturer of membranes, laminates and textiles used in outdoor apparel and footwear, promoted Kim Scholze to chief sales and marketing officer and its board.
Scholze has been with the company since March 2021 as the chief sustainable community manager and head of storytelling. She is now responsible for global Sympatex sales and marketing strategy.
The current CEO, Dr. Rüdiger Fox, remains in management, emphasizing new technologies and restructuring the company’s supply chain towards consistent circularity.
“I took office about six years ago with the ambition of making consistent sustainability a non-negotiable board topic in our industry,” said Fox. “In recent months, fundamental progress has been made—a consistent ban on fluorochemicals is now unstoppable worldwide. And the EU has set all the course to force our industry into a circular business model. The latter only works collaboratively across competitive boundaries. Kim Scholze has already credibly proven in the past that she is the best person to orchestrate such a process and to adequately embody our role in it. For this, I am happy to step aside.”, added Fox.
