Leadership

Hasan Dandashly is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dematic Operating Unit and an active member of the KION Group Executive Committee. He joined the company in 2018.

Hasan brings more than 25 years of global leadership experience with demonstrated capabilities in full-cycle profit and loss management, operations excellence and strategy execution through methodical business and culture transformation.

He joined Dematic from General Electric where he was President and CEO, Oil & Gas Surface since 2017 after having served as President and CEO, Downstream Technology Solutions. Prior to this, Hasan held various international executive roles at GE’s Industrial, Transportation, and Power Generation businesses, beginning in 1998. These included general management positions at GE’s subsidiaries in Italy, UAE, Qatar, and the U.S. Before joining GE, Hasan led engineering teams at Honeywell Industrial Automation and Honeywell Avionics.

Hasan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University and a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota.

Jeff Moss is the Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. Prior to this role, Jeff served as EVP and CEO, Dematic International, EVP of Global Project Engineering, and EVP of Mechanical Solutions & SCi (Supply Chain intelligence) for the North American region. He also served as the SVP of Integrated Systems and consulted for Dematic North America before formally joining the company in June of 2010.

Prior to Dematic, Jeff was the CEO for US Energia, LLC in Wixom, Michigan, served as General Manager at Utica Enterprises and the President and COO of DCT, Inc. in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Before this, he was co-founder and president of Utilase, Inc., an advanced laser cutting and welding business and held other progressively challenging roles within the welding industry.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University, a diploma in Strategy and Innovation with Distinction from Said Business School, Oxford University.

Michele holds the position of Senior Vice President, Human Resources. She joined Dematic in 2006 when Siemens acquired the company. Prior to her current position, Michele held the role of Director – Global Compensation, Benefits, Human Resources Information Systems, Talent Development and HR Programs. She also has served as Senior Human Resources Manager in North America, as well as held various roles within Recruiting and Compensation.

Prior to joining Dematic, Michele worked at Siemens as a Program Controller, Program Manager, and Assistant Project Manager. She holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Michigan State University.

Scott Watts was appointed Chief Operations Officer of Dematic in 2019. Previously, Scott served as Executive Vice President and CEO of Dematic North America. He joined the company in 2014.

Scott began his career in public accounting. He then spent more than 20 years, leading engineering, operations and professional service organizations in the automotive, telecom, and transportation industries. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Central Michigan University and a Master of Business Administration from Michigan State University’s Advanced Management Program.

Pete Devenyi serves as SVP, Global Product and Solutions. He was named to this position in 2018.

Pete brings more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in logistics, e-commerce and telecommunications to the positon. He started at Dematic in 2014 as Vice President, Global Software Development and most recently held the role of Vice President, Software Development within the KION CTO Organization. Before joining Dematic, Pete was Senior Vice President, Enterprise Software at BlackBerry, having led enterprise software for the company for almost a decade. Prior to BlackBerry, he held executive software engineering positions at BCE Emergis and the Descartes Systems Group, and spent nearly 10 years at IBM in a variety of technical and management roles.

He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto.

Kristen Delphos joined Dematic as Vice President and Head of Marketing & Communications in 2019.

Kristen came to Dematic from ABB, where she had been VP of Communications for the Industrial Solutions business acquired from GE in 2018. She has more than 15 years of experience in developing and leading communications programs across the transportation, energy, manufacturing and consumer sectors, having held various global communications leadership roles at other Fortune-ranked companies including GE, UPS and ADT.

Kristen holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

Bernard Biolchini is the EVP and CEO, Americas at Dematic. Prior to being appointed to this position in 2019, he spent five years as Managing Director, Southern Europe.

Before joining Dematic, he served as General Manager for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa for AMD. Prior to that, he held the role of President of EMEA at Invensys Controls Europe and European Senior Sales Director for enterprise accounts at Hewlett-Packard. He holds a Master of Business Administration from IAE Aix en Provence Business School.

Jens Hardenacke joined Dematic as Global SVP and China MD of Dematic in 2017.

Jens came to Dematic from DMG Mori, where he had worked for 12 years and last 9 years as CEO Asia. Jens drives efforts in growing market share, building sales and service efforts and achieving profit goals. With a diverse career background from North America to Europe to Asia, Jens recognises the challenges of coordinating the efforts of a global corporation to deliver successful customer solutions.

Jens holds a PhD in Marketing and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Muenster, Germany.