Dr. Mike Eberle new President of the VLB Berlin

At its constituent meeting following the General Assembly on 29 September 2014, the Administrative Board of the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin (VLB) e.V. has elected Dr. Mike Eberle as its new chairman. The term of office is four years. Eberle takes over from the previous VLB President Dr. Axel Th. Simon, Bitburg, who held this tenure from 1989 to 2014.

Mike Eberle (46) studied chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He earned his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) with a thesis on model systems for photosynthesis in 1996. In the same year, he joined Unilever, where he started in the sector of food development. In further stages of his professional career he was responsible for copacking development at Unilever (purchasing, production, quality assurance, development and logistics) and, from 2005, head of a production site for sauces and fine foods in the Netherlands. In 2008, he went to Müller Milch (dairy). Finally, in 2009, his professional career led him into the brewing and beverage industry, to Germany’s leading independent brewing company, the Radeberger Group in Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as Managing Director for the areas of technology and logistics. Eberle is a native of Hesse, he is married and has two daughters.

The newly elected Administrative Board of the VLB has the following members:

• Dr. Mike Eberle, Radeberger Gruppe KG, Frankfurt am Main (Chairman)

• Gerhard Theis, Karlsberg Holding GmbH, Homburg (Deputy Chairman, Treasurer)

• Ulrich Rust, Gerolsteiner Brunnen GmbH & Co. KG, Gerolstein (Deputy Chairman)

• Peter Himmelsbach, Haus Cramer Management GmbH, Warstein

• Dr. Stefan Lustig, Brau Holding International GmbH & Co. KGaA, Munich

• Horst Müller, EFES Beverage Group, Istanbul/Turkey

Susanne Veltins (Meschede Grevenstein), Dr. Axel Th. Simon (Bitburg), Martin Göhler (Heidelberg) and Hans-Georg Weber (Berlin) stood down as candidates for the Administrative Board.