Management & advisory board

Executive team

Philipp Markert, Dipl. Kfm. (MBA),

Managing Director of the Markert Group

• Bank Clerk, Merck Finck & Co., Frankfurt
• Business Administration at EBS Oestrich-Winkel, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and University of Hamburg
• 2002 – Joined the executive team in the fourth generation of the family

Business Division Manager

Mirko Engel, Dipl. Ing. (MSc. Eng.),

Managing Director for Hose and Coupling Technology

• Mechanical Engineering at Lübeck Technical University of Applied Sciences
• Leser GmbH & Co. KG Hamburg, most recently, Director of Sales & Marketing until 2019
• Saacke GmbH Bremen, authorised signatory, Director of Industrial Solutions and Managing Director + Chairman of Saacke Energy Systems Shanghai

Advisory board

The advisory board has successfully advised and assisted the Markert Group for several years.

Franciska Markert, MBA,

Chair

• BA Westminster Univ. London UK
• Masters, Hamburg Media School
• Contributor to the Markert Group Art Forum

Dr. Johannes Kappel, Dipl. Ing. (MSc. Eng.)
 

• Process Engineering, Graz University of Technology
• Director of the Business Division for Separation at Andritz AG until 2010
• 2011 – 2015 Interim Manager
• independent Corporate Advisor since 2015

Dr. Steffen Wehlte
 

• Science and Management of Wood, Diplom-Holzwirt, PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Hamburg
• UPM-Kymmene eMBA Programme, Helsinki School of Economics
• 2013 – 2022 Sales Director Global Accounts & EMEA, Fette Compacting GmbH, Schwarzenbek
• 2022 – 2024 Chief Commercial Officer, Prodieco | Advanced Engineering Solutions, Dublin
• Since 2024 Managing Director Foss GmbH (Foss Northern Europe), Hamburg