Marcus Kuhnert joins Merck as Group CFO

Marcus Kuhnert

The Board of Partners of E Merck has appointed Marcus Kuhnert as Group Chief Financial Officer of pharmaceuticals and chemicals company Merck. Kuhnert will become a member of Merck’s Executive Board with unlimited personal liability as of August 1, 2014.

Marcus Kuhnert has been the CFO of Henkel’s Laundry & Home Care business unit since 2010.

With around 9.000 employees, the business unit generates annual sales of € 4.6 billion.

Marcus Kuhnert following his studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he earned a combined master’s degree in business administration and mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. at the Institute for Finance and Controlling, he started his career as Corporate Controller at Henkel in 1999, moved to Investor Relations and as of 2003 headed Group Financial Statements & Subsidiary Controlling. At Merck, Kuhnert will succeed Matthias Zachert, who assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Lanxess on April 1.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai