XALETTO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board
After 31 years as CEO, Bernd Meerpohl handed over his post in April 2023 and is now Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Dr. Thomas Dalstein assumed responsibility for logistics, purchasing and engineering as well as for the global customer service as COO in April 2021. Previously, he was CEO of Beumer Corporation in North America, one of the world's leading providers of intralogistics solutions, for ten years. He also gained experience in different management positions in the Siemens group. Dr. Thomas Dalstein is married and has two grown-up sons.
Erkul Basaran joined the company in October 2024 as CFO. He is responsible for the finance & controlling, legal and digital business divisions. The business administration graduate and qualified auditor worked for the consulting firm KPMG for several years and was most recently CFO of the Farm Technologies division at the GEA group in Bönen (Germany). Erkul Basaran is married and has three children.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Member of the Big Dutchman Supervisory Board
Jürgen Steinemann has been a member of the Big Dutchman Supervisory Board since 2015. For eight years, he led the board. Now, he provides his knowledge and experience as deputy chairman.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- CEO of Big Dutchman
Steffen Bersch is CEO of Big Dutchman with effect from 17th March 2025. The graduate engineer worked for the GEA Group for almost twenty years in various roles, including three years in the United Arab Emirates. The last almost four years of his time with the GEA Group, Steffen Bersch served as a member of the Executive Board, with responsibilities including the agricultural engineering sector. In 2020, Bersch was appointed CEO of the SSI Schaefer Group, a family-owned business with 11,000 employees that specialises in global intralogistics. Steffen Bersch is married and has two grown-up children.