GrafTech Names Erick R. Asmussen Chief Financial Officer
09/12/2013 - GrafTech International Ltd. announced that Erick R. Asmussen, GrafTech’s current vice president of strategy, planning and corporate development, has been appointed vice president and chief financial officer.
GrafTech International Ltd. announced that Erick R. Asmussen, GrafTech’s current vice president of strategy, planning and corporate development, has been appointed vice president and chief financial officer.
Mr. Asmussen has over 20 years of corporate finance, treasury, accounting, planning and analysis, tax and corporate development experience. Since joining GrafTech in 1999 as tax director, he has also served as GrafTech’s worldwide controller (December 1999 – August 2002) and treasurer and director of finance (September 2002 – April 2005). He became vice president of strategy, planning and corporate development in May 2005.
Prior to joining GrafTech, Mr. Asmussen served as director of tax planning for Corning Incorporated, tax manager for AT&T Corporation, and senior tax consultant for Arthur Andersen LLP. He holds a Master of Science in Taxation from State University of New York at Albany and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Craig Shular, chief executive officer of GrafTech, commented, “Erick has developed tremendous depth and breadth of financial and business experience. He possesses a wealth of knowledge about GrafTech’s operations and strategies, and we are confident that he will continue to contribute substantially to the achievement of GrafTech’s objectives for enhancing shareholder value.”
Mr. Asmussen succeeds Lindon Robertson who has left GrafTech to pursue other opportunities. The company thanks Mr. Robertson for his contributions and wishes him well in his future endeavors.
GrafTech International Ltd. is one of the world's largest manufacturers and providers of high quality synthetic and natural graphite and carbon based products and technical and research and development services, with customers in 70 countries engaged in the manufacture of steel, automotive products and electronics. We manufacture graphite electrodes, products essential to the production of electric arc furnace steel and petroleum needle coke, the raw material essential to the production of graphite electrodes. We also manufacture thermal management, fuel cell and other specialty graphite and carbon products for, and provide services to, the electronics, power generation, solar, oil and gas, transportation, defense, petrochemical and other metals markets. We operate 20 manufacturing facilities strategically located on four continents.
