Topcon Europe Positioning BV Strengthens Organisation

Topcon Europe Positioning BV (The Netherlands) has announced several promotions to strengthen its organisation and support its growth plan.

Ulrich Hermanski has been promoted to European senior sales and marketing manager. Having worked as the German National sales manager for the past 8 years, Ulrich has moved to the European head office in The Netherlands and will now be responsible for daily management of Topcon’s European Sales and Support organisation. Ulrich graduated in 1985 at the University of Essen as Diplom-Engineer for surveying and then started his career as sales manager for Topcon Germany. From 1989 Ulrich worked for Mobil Oil in Belgium as a European sales manager for packaging machinery systems. From 1992 to 1996 he was managing director and partner of a civil engineering office in Germany. In 1997 Ulrich re-joined Topcon Germany, as sales manager for surveying products. From the 1st of December 2005 he started for TEP and he will have the challenging task to further strengthen and expand Topcon’s new structure on the European continent.

After the merger of Topcon Spain with former Trimble and Sokkia dealer Inland on the 1st of October 2005, Fernando Sahuquillo has been promoted to regional sales manager Southern Europe with responsibility for Spain, Portugal and Italy. Fernando has been with Topcon for 8 years. He graduated in 1986 at the UPC Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in Mining Engineering and then started his career as Surveying Teacher in the Mining Degree University of Catalonia in 1987/88. In 1988 Fernando worked for Lep, S.A., the formal Topcon dealer in Spain in that time. From 1992 till 1995 he joined for a Surveying Software House company and returning to Topcon in 1995 as a sales manager for Topcon España S.A.

Axel Messing has been promoted to regional sales manager Benelux. After setting up the Topcon Netherlands office, and managed it’s growth to become a major player in the Dutch positioning market, Axel now has added responsibility for Topcon’s Belgian Sales office. In his new responsibility as sales manager Benelux he expects to gain more efficiency out of combining marketing activities for the Belgian and Dutch market. Axel graduated in Marketing & Sales and worked several years for trading companies. He started working in the positioning industry in 1986, when he joined Sokkia Europe BV. Within Sokkia he was part of the team that succeeded in bringing Sokkia to a number 1 position in the local construction market in The Netherlands in the early 90ties. Since 1996 his responsibility was the Topcon sales and marketing in The Netherlands.