The Board of Directors of Comet Holding AG has appointed Stephan Haferl, currently President of the X-Ray Modules division (IXM), as new Chief Executive Officer of Comet Group. He will succeed Kevin Crofton who will leave the Group. As part of long-term succession planning, Comet's current CEO Kevin Crofton will hand over the CEO position to Stephan Haferl.

Stephan Haferl will take over on September 1, 2022, from Kevin Crofton, who will leave the company at the end of August. Stephan Haferl joined Comet AG as Head of Operations, Engineering and Supply Chain of the Business Unit Industrial X-Ray and after having held various increasingly important positions he was 2018 promoted President of the Division Industrial X-Ray Modules.