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ITA Officers & Committees

Officers

President Dr Gunther Voswinckel VOSCO Management and Project Consultancy, Germany
Chairman Mitsuru Nakata Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan
Vice Chairman Donald Gibeaut Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp, USA
Honorary Treasurer Mr Hans-Joerg Braun Reika GmbH, Germany
Executive Secretary Cornelia Buesing International Tube Association e.V., Germany
Vice President Europe Albert Sedlmaier data M Sheet Metal Solutions GmbH, Germany
Vice President Asia Pacific Iwao Nakata Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan
Vice President India Srikanth Narayan Sarvika Tubular Concepts LLP, India
Vice President North America Donald Gibeaut Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp, USA
Honorary Life President Emeritus Prof. Dr-Ing M Kiuchi
Tsutomu Nakata
Kilametec, Japan
Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan

International Executive Management Board - IEMB

President Dr Gunther Voswinckel VOSCO Management and Project Consultancy, Germany
Chairman Mitsuru Nakata Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan
Vice Chairman Donald Gibeaut Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp, USA
Honorary Treasurer Hans-Joerg Braun Reika GmbH, Germany
Vice President Europe Albert Sedlmaier data M Sheet Metal Solutions GmbH, Germany
Executive Secretary Cornelia Buesing International Tube Association e.V., Germany
Vice President Asia Pacific Iwao Nakata Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan
Vice President India Srikanth Narayan Sarvika Tubular Concepts LLP, India
Vice President North America Donald Gibeaut Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp, USA
Chairman IMB India Sanjay Sahni Tata Steel Limited
Joseph Baldauff Magnetic Analysis Corp. USA
Peter Byroslawsky Consultant, Germany
Christian Haferkamp SMS group GmbH, Germany
Andy Houghton Promet Consult, UK
Friedrich-Georg Kehrer Messe Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany
Gerhard Kulessa Kulessa & Associates, Germany
All officers are eligible to attend and vote at the IEMB

European Management Board – EMB

Chairman Albert Sedlmaier data M Sheet Metal Solutions GmbH, Germany
José Berenguer Consultant, Spain
Hans-Joerg Braun Reika GmbH, Germany
Peter Byroslawsky Consultant, Germany
Klaus Dickmann Slickers Technology GmbH, Germany
Christian Haferkamp SMS group GmbH, Germany
Wayne Hine Inductotherm Heating & Welding, UK
Andy Houghton Promet Consult, UK
Friedrich-Georg Kehrer Messe Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany
Gerhard Kulessa Kulessa & Associates, Germany
Dr Gunther Voswinckel VOSCO Management Consultants GmbH, Germany

Asia Pacific Management Board – APMB

Vice President Asia Pacific Iwao Nakata Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan
T K Cheung Able Industries Co Ltd, Thailand
T S Tay SMACO, Malaysia
Prof. Dr-Ing M Kiuchi Kilametec, Japan
Axel Bartkus Messe Duesseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Kazuo Mitani Tube Experts Co Ltd, Japan
Mitsuru Nakata Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan
Professor Jiying Liu North China University of Technology, PR China
Tony Schreiber Bluescope, Australia
Professor Fei Han North China University of Technology, PR China
Zunqing Yang MC-CCPIT, PR China
Daqing Jin, Ph.D CITIC Pacific Special Steel Group, PR China
Han Jingtao CCRFI, PR China

Indian Executive Committee – Management Board

President Sanjay Sahni Tata Steel Limited, India
Vice President Srikanth Narayan Sarvika Tubular Concepts LLP, India
Secretary India Nitin Agarwal Multimetals Ltd., India
Treasurer India Dr.Jai dev chandel Jindal SAW Ltd., India
B. B. Gupta JBM Group. Gurugram, India
Thomas Schlitt Messe Duesseldorf India, India
Y.K.Bhatia MAS tube mills, India
Romi seghal Technical, APL Apollo, India
Vijay Joshi Inductotherm India Pvt. Ltd, India
Venugopalan Dept of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. IIT, India
TS. Kathayat Welspun Corp., India

North American Management Board – NAMB

Vice President, North America Donald Gibeaut Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp, USA
Chairman North America Joseph Baldauff Magnetic Analysis Corporation, USA
Terry Banach Vanishing Point Education LLC, USA
Frank Joy GE Nuclear, USA
Michael Kelly UV Coatings Technology, USA
Dave MacNeil Fives Bronx, Inc., USA

Administration Sub-committee – ASC

Chairman Dr Gunther Voswinckel VOSCO Management Consultants GmbH, Germany
Hans-Joerg Braun Reika GmbH, Germany
Donald Gibeaut Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp, USA
Mitsuru Nakata Nakata Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan

Technical Management Committee – TMC

Chairman Gerhard Kulessa Kulessa & Associates, Germany
Andy Houghton Promet Consult, UK
Donald Gibeaut Ajax Tocco Magnethermic Corp, USA
Prof. Dr-Ing M Kiuchi Kilametec, Japan