The supervisory board of SLM Solutions Group AG announced that Dr. Axel Schulz will join the Management Board of SLM Solutions as Chief Sales Officer with effect from 01 February 2018. Dr. Schulz will take over responsibility for the departments Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Service as well as the Business unit 3D Metals and therefore is in addition to sales also responsible for the company's After Sales Business. The contract is signed for a period till 31 December 2020. Within the last years Dr. Schulz was among other positions CEO of the company Putzmeister based in Aichtal, Germany.