DKSH Holding Ltd. has announced that Joerg Wolle, currently its president and CEO, will become chairman of the board of directors in the course of 2017. The long-standing Chairman of the Board, Adrian T. Keller as well as Andreas W. Keller, representing the family shareholders in the fourth generation, will retain active roles within the Board of Directors. Joerg Wolle, after more than 26 years of operational responsibility with the Group - of which 18 years as CEO - will assume the function of Chairman of the Board, taking over from his predecessor.

By that time, a structured process will have identified and named a successor to Joerg Wolle as CEO.