Digital Transformation Initiative: An Executive Board Initiative: Digital Transformation

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 17.10.2016.

The digital transformation at ZEISS is a key success factor for the company and great efforts are being made by all members of the Executive Board to ensure its progress. In order to highlight its importance, effective 1 October 2016 Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Thomas Spitzenpfeil will also be assuming the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO).

For ZEISS, the objective is digital transformation @speed and @scale in other words, at high speed and for as many customer and user groups as possible. In a bid to achieve this, the requisite organizational structures are all set to be revised under the leadership of Thomas Spitzenpfeil.

The accelerated development of innovative, digital solutions in collaboration with the company's business groups will be supported on the one hand by a new unit that is currently being expanded. On the other hand, Corporate IT will be stepping up its efforts to drive the expansion this necessitates in terms of digital IT infrastructure, systems and processes.

ZEISS wants to use the new structure, which comes from a single source, to better meet changing customer needs for integrated, digital solutions.

Former CIO Hans-Achim Quitmann retired on 30 September 2016. He joined ZEISS in 2011 as its first CIO and laid the groundwork for digitalization by realigning IT across the Group.

The role of Senior Vice President of Corporate IT will be assumed by Michael Belko, who has been the Vice President of the IT Solution Center.

Senior Vice President Matthias Gohl, who has been in charge of corporate strategy, will assume responsibility for the setup of the new agile digitalization unit.

The realignment is a key part of the high-tech company's digitalization strategy. Its firm establishment at Executive Board level conveys the high value that digital transformation has been accorded at ZEISS.

In recent years, Hans-Achim Quitmann successfully laid the groundwork for the digital expansion of our IT structures and processes. We would like to thank him for his efforts and wish him all the best in his future endeavors, says Thomas Spitzenpfeil.

With the organizational realignment and the appointment of Thomas Spitzenpfeil as the new CIO, who now assumes responsibility for Corporate IT and the new agile unit for innovative, digital solutions, the topic of digital transformation, which we believe is important for the future, is now being accorded even greater significance at Executive Board level, says Dr. Michael Kaschke, President and CEO of Carl Zeiss AG.

Press Contacts:

J rg Nitschke

Spokesman

ZEISS Group

Phone: +49 7364 20-3242

Fax:

joerg.nitschke@zeiss.com

About ZEISS:

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries. The ZEISS Group develops and distributes lithography optics, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology. With its solutions, the company constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress. ZEISS is divided up into the four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Research & Quality Technology, Medical Technology, and Vision Care / Consumer Optics. ZEISS is represented in over 40 countries and operates more than 30 production sites, over 50 sales and service locations and about 25 research and development facilities.

In fiscal year 2014/15 the company generated revenue approximating 4.5 billion euros with around 25,000 employees. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. Carl Zeiss AG is the strategic management holding company that manages the ZEISS Group. The company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).

Further informationen at www.zeiss.de/en

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