Dr. Lan Lin has worked in the
Hisense Group for the last 16 years, of which more than a decade as a Vice
President of Hisense Group. Among others he is also the Chairman of Hisense International,
the company’s international arm. Dr. Lin is a Pd.D. in Mechanical Engineering
and has obtained his doctorate at the acclaimed University of Tennessee in the
US.
Chao Liu is the Vice President
of Hisense Refrigerator Company with over 7 years of management experience in
the Hisense Group. Before assuming his current position, the MBA of University
of Memphis was involved with Hisense’s operations in Mexico since 2011, as EVP,
Director and Manager for the American Region.
Jianmin Han is VP of Hisense
International since 2007 and has worked in Hisense for the last 13 years. As of
this year, Mr. Han, an MBA by education, is also the General Manager of the
Italian branch of Hisense.
Lu Hou has worked in Hisense
Europe for over 13 years, the last year as Managing Director of Hisense Europe.
He obtained his MBA in Australia and is also the Director of Hisense UK, which
handles marketing and sales of Hisense products in the UK.
Anguo Yan has worked in the
Hisense Group for over 27 years. He obtained his master’s Degree at the renowned
BUAA in Beijing, and was, throughout his career, been responsible for various
segments of production. He is currently the General Manager of Production at Hisense
(ShangDong) Refrigerator, one of the key house appliance manufacturing
capacities of the Hisense Group.
Changchun Sun is joining
Gorenje from Hisense (ShangDong) Air Conditioning. As of 2011 he is the Vice
Minister of Financial Department of the company. He has worked with the Air
Conditioning unit of Hisense for 11 years.
The Management Board members
will also have new assignments in the new term of office. Franjo Bobinac will
be the President of the Management Board, while Dr. Lan Lin will serve as the Vice President of the Management Board. Žiga
Debeljak will be responsible for strategic finance, controlling, accounting,
digital business coordination, IT and non-core businesses. Changchun Sun will cover operational finance,
risk management and internal audit. Saša Markovič, that assumes his term
September 1, 2018, will be responsible for sales and marketing in
Eastern Europe and CIS countries, while Management Board Member Lu Hou will be responsible for sales and
marketing in Western Europe. Chao Liu will be responsible for strategic
purchasing, logistics, supply chain and product planning. Tomaž Korošec
will be responsible for production, R&D and investments and maintenance. Anguo Yan will be responsible for production
systems and improvements, technical support functions and quality. Stanka
Pejanović, member of the Management Board will cover HR, organization, after
sales and corporate support, and Jianmin
Han will be co-responsible for HR. Drago Bahun, that was named Labor Director
by the Labor Council, will be responsible for social dialogue.
The President
of the Management Board Franjo Bobinac said, following the decision: »The expansion of the
Management Board is a natural step in a process, boldly initiated by the
management roughly a year ago. We have found a strategic owner and partner with
which Gorenje will grow and develop faster. A great team that has been
recommended by the Hisense Group to boost integration, brings important
knowledge and skills to the team that will ensure a speedier and more efficient
use of synergies between the two groups. We will soon be able to use good
relations with supply partners to ensure better procurement terms for materials
and supplies and I believe we will soon see first results of joint research and
development as well as filling of unused production capacity in all Gorenje
plants in Europe. And when we, before the end of the year, achieve the desired
statutory changes in the company, we will be able to focus solely on what we
know best – development, design, production, marketing and sales of home
appliances for all the brands in our new joint company. I believe this is very good
news for Gorenje, our more than 11 thousand employees in all of our companies and
our business partners worldwide.«