Röchling (Mannheim / Germany; www.roechling.com) is creating a new position – chief information and digital officer. The first to hold this title at the company starting 1 October 2018 will be Klaus-Peter Fett, who was a Google manager.

Fett joined Google in 2010, and primarily advised and supported German-headquartered companies from the manufacturing industry in the use of cloud technologies for digital transformation. Before that, he worked at software company Mercury Interactive Germany and IBM.

Röchling CEO Hanns-Peter Knaebel sees digitalisation at the company as "a crucial requirement for its future success." Fett will be responsible for the German group’s digital team, which will be based in Berlin and Munich, and for all of the company's IT. In his new role, Fett will report directly to Knaebel.