(Reuters) -Gerresheimer Chief Financial Officer Bernd Metzner has resigned from his role and will leave the company on August 31, the German packaging and medical equipment maker said on Friday.
Wolf Lehmann has been appointed to succeed Metzner, who is leaving Gerresheimer at his own request, as of September 1, said the company.
Metzner has been in the spotlight following the failed sale of Gerresheimer to financial investors and a decline in the company’s share price, with activist investor Active Ownership Capital (AOC) recently demanding that his position be re-examined.
AOC, a major shareholder in Gerresheimer, said last week it saw major potential for value creation at the company and called for a strategic review, a second activist investor to do so.
Lehmann was most recently an operating partner at the private equity firm Triton.
The company said that given the changes, it would postpone its Capital Markets Day planned for October 15 to a later date.
(Reporting by Ralf Banser, written by Linda Pasquini, editing by Miranda Murray)
