Nabaltec AG

After a year of study abroad in the USA, Johannes Heckmann completed his industrial engineering studies at the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences and began his professional career in 1993 as a project manager at Schindler Aufzüge AG in Lucerne, Switzerland. At the end of 1993, he moved to AKW Amberger Kaolinwerke GmbH, where he also worked as a project manager and, among other things, had project responsibility for constructing a kaolin plant in Brazil. In April 1995, Johannes Heckmann began his career as a managing director at Nabaltec. With the founding of Nabaltec AG and the IPO in 2006, he was appointed to the Executive Board and was responsible for the areas of production, research and development. With effect from 01/01/2017 he was appointed as Chairman of the Executive Board of Nabaltec.

Günther Spitzer is responsible as Chief Financial Officer for the areas of Finance/Controlling, Administration and IT. After an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk in 1985 he began his career at the VAW aluminium AG Schwandorf factory. Following further training to become a company accountant, he then became head of cost accounting in 1991. Upon completion of a job-accompanying course in business economics in the year 1998, Günther Spitzer was then Head of Controlling at Nabaltec AG until 2008. In addition, since 2009, he has also been responsible for the area of Financing. In 2009 he was also granted general commercial power of representation. In this role, he was responsible for optimizing the financing structure. Major projects included the issue of a bond in 2010 for small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the issuance of two bonded loans in the years 2013 and 2015. With effect from 01/01/2017, Gunther Spitzer has been Chief Financial Officer at Nabaltec AG.

Dr. Alexander Risch was appointed to the Executive Board at Nabaltec AG as of 1 October 2021 and is responsible for research and development, production and sales.
After completing a degree in Mineralogy at the Friedrich‑Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg and a dissertation at Bilfinger + Berger Umweltverfahrenstechnik in Mannheim, he joined the Geosciences Institute in Erlangen where he began work on a project supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and supervised by Siemens AG focusing on high-temperature superconductive oxide ceramics. As part of the project, Dr. Alexander Risch also successfully completed his PhD thesis. From 1999, he worked in sales as a Technical Support Manager at Hoffmann Mineral GmbH before taking over management of the ‘toll manufacturing’ profit center with the aim of expanding this business division to become a second pillar. Dr. Alexander Risch managed the Sales, Marketing and Order Processing divisions of Hoffmann Mineral GmbH globally from 2006 to 2021 and during this time, gathered extensive experience in the field of industrial fillers and their functionalization.