Adient has unveiled Martin Klein as Recaro Automotive Seating and Recaro Performance Car Seating vice president.
Markus Kussmaul will continue to serve the company until the end of September to ensure a smooth transition of leadership. Klein will take over responsibilities at Recaro Automotive Seating on 1 September and will be based in Kirchheim/Teck, Germany.
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“One year after successfully spinning off Adient as an independent automotive supplier from Johnson Controls, we will now engage in the next phase of developing Recaro Automotive Seating as the world’s leading brand of performance car seats with potentials in the passenger and commercial vehicle businesses,” said Adient Speciality Seating vice president, Ingo Fleischer.
“In particular I want to thank Markus Kussmaul for his commitment and for his dedicated work on behalf of the company.”
Kussmaul was previously at Keiper and Recaro for 17 years and after joining the Keiper sales team in 2000, he served in different leadership positions until 2011. When Keiper and Recaro Automotive Seating became part of Johnson Controls in 2011, he led the US business operations of Recaro Automotive Seating until 2014.
From 2014 he held leadership positions at Recaro Commercial Vehicle Seating, global sales at Recaro Automotive Seating and later as head of Recaro Performance Car Seating.
