Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Conspiraciests may now speculate that Zeiss may be using the threat of new M compatible lens and body to force a regime change at Leica, and then engineer a take over with a more friendly company chairman later on. At 09:53 PM 10/7/2004, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >The whole release is translated acceptably on the web site. Regarding >Coenen's background, it is described on the German site as: > >- background as communications engineer, also studied physics, plus MBA >- worked as consultant at McKinsey (this rings alarm bells!) >- before joining Leica in 2000 he was head of the photography and cinema >lens business at Zeiss > >Actually, he seems like someone with a good mix of technology and business >background. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)