Manfred Asamer, PhD, Board Member

Manfred Asamer was born on May 10th 1962 in Bad Ischl, Austria. After finishing secondary school in Gmunden in 1980 he studied at Johannes Kepler University Linz, and graduated in 1985 (Law, Management with a special focus on Marketing and Accounting). In 1985 he joined Goizueta Business School at Emory University/Atlanta for a 1-year postgraduate MBA program.

After finishing military service he entered his father’s company Asamer + Hufnagl and developed finance and marketing departments.

In 1996 he took over the position of CEO of Asamer + Hufnagl – building materials and in 2004 he was appointed managing director of Asamer Holding AG.
During this time the company has developed to a 600 million ¤ operation, active in 19 countries all over Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the middle East and in Libya.
Manfred is active in industrial associations where he was President of the Austrian Aggregates Association for more than 10 years. Furthermore he was President of the European Aggregates Association during the term 2003-2005. Since 2009 he is President of the Austrian Building Materials Industry.