Board changes at Rohde & Schwarz as COO resigns

The president and chief operating officer (COO) of Rohde & Schwarz, Peter Riedel, has decided to resign from his position for personal reasons and left the company at the end of July 2024. He will remain associated with Rohde & Schwarz in an advisory role.

Following Riedel’s departure, the executive board of the Munich-based company now consists of Christian Leicher as president and CEO and Andreas Pauly, who was appointed president and chief technology officer on 1 October 2023. For the time being Pauly will assume the tasks of COO on an interim basis.

“Peter Riedel played a key role in the highly successful development of Rohde & Schwarz over the past decades. He very positively shaped numerous aspects of our company. We thank him for his many decades of outstanding and successful commitment to Rohde & Schwarz and wish him lots of continued success in his career,” Leicher stated in a company press release.

Riedel himself added, “After nearly 36 years at Rohde & Schwarz, I have decided that now is the time to take a different direction professionally. I look back at my time with Rohde & Schwarz with pride and gratefulness, a time in which we advanced the company together and prepared it for the future. I wish my colleagues across the world all the best for the future.”

Riedel had been on the executive board as COO since 2014.