Our Management

Dr. Thomas Schneider

Chief Executive Director (CEO)
Chief Operation Officer (COO)

With ARRK Engineering since 1999.

Only when the path makes a turn can you reposition yourself.

After studying materials science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he completed his doctorate on the simulation of ceramic materials. His work was awarded the Werner Köster Prize of the DGM and the PhD Prize of the Faculty of Engineering. After starting at ARRK Engineering in 1999, he became head of simulation worldwide in 2009. He has been CEO of the subsidiary ARRK R&D in Romania since 2009 and its legal representative of the subsidiary in China since 2019. Since 2017, he has been responsible for the engineering activities of the ARRK Group worldwide. He is responsible for strategy development and has been a member of the Executive Board as authorised signatory and COO since 2018, since April 2024, he has been Managing Director of ARRK Engineering GmbH.