Peter Riedel has decided to resign from his position as president and chief operating officer (COO) of Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co KG for personal reasons.

Riedel, who served on the company’s executive board as COO since 2014, will remain associated with Rohde & Schwarz in an advisory role.

The executive board of the Munich-headquartered technology company now consists of Christian Leicher as president and CEO, and Andreas Pauly, president and chief technology officer. Pauly will assume the COO tasks on an interim basis.

“Peter Riedel played a key role in the highly successful development of Rohde & Schwarz over the past decades. He very positively shaped numerous aspects of our company. We thank him for his many decades of outstanding and successful commitment to Rohde & Schwarz and wish him lots of continued success in his career,” said Christian Leicher, president and CEO of the Rohde & Schwarz Group.

“After nearly 36 years at Rohde & Schwarz, I have decided that now is the time to take a different direction professionally,” said Riedel. “I look back at my time with Rohde & Schwarz with pride and gratefulness, a time in which we advanced the company together and prepared it for the future. I wish my colleagues across the world all the best for the future.”

Image: Peter Riedel.