Cenit Elects New CEO as Former Leader Resigns

Peter Schneck will assume the position of CEO at Cenit AG on January 1, 2022. The outgoing CEO, Kurt Bengel, will leave the company at the end of 2021.

Born in 1971, Schneck studied international business law at Bonn University and completed an MBA at the University of Reading, UK. During his career, Schneck has acted as managing director of Scheidt & Bachmann, a global provider of IT solutions for parking management, and later as managing director of car park and transport company APCOA. Following his move to Trapeze Group, a software provider for transport engineering, Schneck headed the company as CEO from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, he joined the management board of DataGroup SE where – prior to his move to Cenit –  he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, investor relations and legal affairs.

On Schneck, Rainer-Christian Koppitz, chairman of the supervisory board of Cenit AG, says, “We are convinced that we have found an internationally experienced and highly qualified successor for the position of chief executive officer. Peter Schneck has an impressive track record, particularly in the fields of international sales organization, software business generation and value-adding company acquisitions.”

Bengel will resign his position as CEO on December 31, 2021 and leave the company after more than 33 years. A graduate engineer, Kurt Bengel joined Cenit on July 1, 1988 as the very first employee. He joined the management board on January 1, 2007 and has acted as CEO since July 31, 2012.

Koppitz concludes, “The supervisory board honors Kurt Bengel’s many years of service to Cenit’s success, his high level of expertise and his extraordinary personal commitment to this cause. We wish to express our deep gratitude for his dedication and wish him the very best in his future endeavors. To be absolutely clear: Without Kurt Bengel, Cenit would not exist in its present-day size and orientation.”