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`06/10/2015
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`Peter Lake is Member of ZF’s Board of Management Responsible for
`Corporate Market
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`• As of October 1, ZF TRW Head of Sales is responsible for Corporate Market in the Board of Management,
`ZF Group
`• Focus on customer requirements
`• ZF Chief Executive Officer Dr. Stefan Sommer remains responsible for R&D and the service business
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`Friedrichshafen. The Head of Sales of ZF TRW, Peter Lake, has become a new member of the Board of Management of
`ZF Friedrichshafen AG. As of October 1, 2015, he is also responsible for Corporate Market in the ZF Group.
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`Peter Lake, aged 59, has been Head of Sales and Business Development at what is now ZF TRW in Livonia near Detroit
`since 2002. He contributed significantly to the integration of the British automotive supplier Lucas-Varity into what was
`then TRW Automotive.
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`“We are pleased that an absolute sales and integration expert is taking over this important position on the Board of
`Management,” says ZF’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Stefan Sommer. “Thanks to his long-standing experience in
`international customer business, he is the perfect fit for the worldwide marketing of ZF’s product portfolio which was
`expanded through the acquisition.” CEO Sommer himself will continue to be responsible for ZF’s service business as well
`as for Research and Development of the technology company but is handing over responsibility for Corporate Market to
`Peter Lake.
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`After obtaining his degree in Business, Peter Lake started his career at Lucas in 1978. He held various sales and
`marketing positions and finally became responsible for the commercial, product planning and marketing activities of the
`British automotive supplier which was acquired by TRW Automotive. At TRW, Lake worked in the areas of business
`development and planning of TRW Chassis Systems and became Head of Sales and Business Development of the entire
`company in 2002. Now Lake is responsible for all sales activities of the combined companies ZF and TRW.
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`“We have already pooled the power of the successful sales organizations of ZF and TRW in order to better fulfill our
`customers’ requirements” says Lake. “This is in line with our philosophy to offer products and systems that deliver
`efficiency, safety and automated driving from a single source.”
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`ZF’s new member of the Board of Management responsible for Corporate Market as of October 01, 2015: Peter Lake
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