Frank Hilgers

Dr. Frank Hilgers has been CEO Northern and Eastern Europe since May 2019. Since 2015, he has been responsible for the group-wide management of branded products and high quality fastening solutions (Chief Category Officer, CCO). He has also headed the business units of KVT-Fastening since 2012. From 2009 to 2012, he was a member of the KVT-Koenig management team responsible for sales, product management and the fastening systems division. During his employment at Continental between 2007 and 2009, he was in charge of all national organizations of the spare parts business and key account management in the Commercial & Special Vehicle area. From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Frank Hilgers headed Group Strategy and Corporate Development at Siemens VDO Automotive and was instrumental in the turnaround and sale of this Siemens segment. As senior manager for strategy, Dr. Frank Hilgers headed major international projects at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) from 1997 until 2004, and was responsible for automotive suppliers and the shareholder value initiative in the German speaking countries.