Lonza Group AG announced that Wolfgang Wienand has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and will join the company during the summer of 2024. Wolfgang is currently CEO of the Swiss contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Siegfried Holding AG, a role he has held since 2019. Prior to this, Wolfgang first served as Chief Scientific Officer and then as Chief Strategy Officer in Siegfried?s executive leadership team.

Before joining Siegfried in 2010, Wolfgang held a series of increasingly senior positions at the German specialty chemicals company Evonik Industries. Wolfgang will succeed Albert M. Baehny, who took on the additional responsibility of CEO on an ad interim basis in October 2023 while the search for a permanent CEO took place. Albert will remain at Lonza for a transition period during the summer, before retiring from the company.