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Gerd Finkbeiner is chairman of the Executive Board of manroland AG and is responsible for directing all aspects of the company's global operations. He also serves as chairman of the board of manroland, Inc. - the company's North American business unit.

Finkbeiner received his engineering degree from the Stuttgart College of Printing in 1981. The following year he joined Eurografica Export-Förderungs-GmbH in Munich, working primarily in the Southeast Asian and Australian markets. In 1987, he became general manager of Eurografica and vice president of Intergrafica Print & Pack. He joined manroland in 1992 as the web press division's director of sales and service. In 1995, Finkbeiner became a deputy member of the manroland Executive Board, responsible for the web press division, and two years later was appointed as a full member of the board. He was named chairman in 1999, and became a member of the Executive Board of MAN Aktiengesellschaft the following year.