Hans Hans

Hans Nder is the Owner & serves as President and Chairman uf the Board at Ottobock. He also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at Otto Bock Kunststoff. Since it was established in 1919, Ottobock has been an owner-managed family business. Now in its third generation, it is headed by Professor Hans Georg Nder, the grandson of the company founder. Professor Hans Georg Nder took over management of the business in 1990 at the age of 28. Since then, he has successfully continued his grandfather's and father's work. As President of the Otto Bock Holding and Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH, he is responsible for more than 6,000 employees in 50 countries. Professor Nder leads his company as the head of a team, supported by outstanding managers on the executive board and in the regions and respective countries. In 2003 he was elected "Entrepreneur of the Year" for his entrepreneurial performance and in 2005 he was honoured with the State Award of Lower Saxony. In 2009 he was named "Manager of the Year" and in 2011 honorary citizen of his home town of Duderstadt. Professor Hans Georg Nder views himself as the conductor of the company. Deploying the right staff at the right places and enabling life-long learning are his priorities. For this reason, he has declared human resources development to be a matter for management. Passing on business experience to the next generation has been one of the business studies graduate's activities since 2005, for example, in his capacity as honorary professor at PFH - Private University of Applied Sciences in Gaettingen and since 2009 at Capital Medical University in Peking. He is a co-initiator of the orthobionics programme introduced at PFH in 2011 to offer a combination of medicine, orthopaedic technology and business studies to future managers. In 2013 took the Ottobock Campus training centre in Duderstadt on its operation, enabling the transfer of know-how in orthopaedic technology to young people from emerging market countries.