The Board of Directors of the ESSC-D

Lena Thiele
Chairwoman

Operational Excellence Manager at Cargoboard

Recipient of the 2022 German Six Sigma Award for Business Excellence (Gold)
, Six Sigma Yellow Belt / Green Belt

Responsibilities:

  • General Inquiries

  • Welcome Package & Member Recruitment

  • Contact Persons for the Working Groups

  • Event Planning

    • Professional Conference

    • Closed-door meeting

    • General Meeting

Prof. Dr. Bert Leyendecker
Vice Chair

Professor of Production Management and Operations Research
Koblenz University of Applied Sciences

Managing Director Leyendecker Consulting GmbH

Black Belt since 2001
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt since 2004

Responsibilities:

  • Standards Development

  • Support for Brand Users

  • Contact Person for Guidelines

    • Certification Policy

    • MBB Certification

  • German Six Sigma Award

Hendrik Bienert
Chief Financial Officer

EMEA Lean Manager at Olympus Winter & Ibe

Six Sigma Black Belt

Responsibilities:

  • General Inquiries

  • Welcome Package & Member Recruitment

  • Club Finances

  • Executive Board Collaboration Tools

  • LeanBase & LATC Partnership

Björn Noreik

BNB Quality Statistics and Training

Black Belt since 2006
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt since 2018

Responsibilities:

  • Website & Club Database

  • Online Lectures

  • Monthly Data Talk

  • Email Accounts

  • Working Groups – Documentation & Instructions for Internal Use

Gennadii Tsybelman

M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics

Data Scientist in Quality Management at Robert Bosch GmbH

Responsibilities:

  • AI Working Group Leader / AI Benchmark

  • Focus: Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Six Sigma and Quality Statistics.

Further contact persons in the association

Sylvia Rohm

Office @ ESSC-D







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Prof. Dr. Patrick Pötters

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Prof. Dr-Ing. Patrick Pötters has been active in the ESSC-D since 2015 and has headed the “German Six Sigma Award for Business Excellence” since the beginning of 2021.
He is a professor of industrial engineering at
of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and advises companies across all industries on all aspects of process optimization.

Eckhard Freudenberger

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Eckhard Freudenberger has been a member of the ESSC since 2010. Since 2016, he has been responsible for the entire organizational part of the conference, both preparation and implementation, as well as the trophies and certificates for the German Six Sigma Award for Business Excellence. Professionally, he works throughout Europe as a consultant for business excellence in the Machinery & Equipment, Automotive and Cross Industries sectors.

Dr. Thomas Rietdorf

Thomas Rietdorf is a Master Black Belt and has been an active member of the association since 2015. He is involved in several working groups, including “Six Sigma weitergedacht”, “Lernen 2.0” and “Speed”.

He also helped us to convert our membership database to the Webling club software.

Karlheinz Eichinger

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Karlheinz Eichinger is a “veteran of the ESSC”. As a graduate engineer in plastics technology, he is a Master Black Belt for Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma and is known for his specialist presentations at the ESSC and other platforms. He developed the Six Sigma app for the ESSC and has been maintaining it ever since.
He also checks compliance with the ESSC quality standards for training on behalf of the ESSC.

Daniel Fügner

Daniel Fügner has been a member of ESSC-D for several years and is actively involved as the cross-functional coordinator of the working groups; he is a member of the “Editorial” working group and serves as the association’s auditor. He is a product manager for Minitab at ADDITIVE GmbH and, as a Master Black Belt, provides cross-industry support in understanding and improving processes.

Dirk Jödike

Dirk Jödicke was Head of Research and Development, Head of Quality Assurance and has been a Six Sigma Master Black Belt freelance consultant for Six Sigma, statistical data analysis, statistical test planning and process optimization since 2017. He is a cash auditor for the ESSC.