Esko Name Panenka President

Esko (Gent, Belgium) has announced that Udo Panenka, Senior VP for global sales and marketing, will succeed Carsten Knudsen as president on January 1, 2015. Knudsen will continue to support Esko and Danaher in an advisory role. Panenka joined Esko from Kollmorgen, another Danaher business, earlier this year, where he was VP and GM for Industrial Automation in Europe and India. Udo joined Kollmorgen in 2008

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