Susanne just retired as President of INP Sales, LLC, the strategic partner company in North America for INP Deutschland GmbH. In this role she is utilized her early career experiences in power generation to support the German partners in major industrial and power plant projects across sector boundaries. In her previous role as Director, Global Advanced Manufacturing Technology for AGCO Corporation, she represented the business during the Enterprise PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) implementations as part of the company’s Digital Transformation. In addition to PLM systems her expertise includes robotics, time studies, line balancing, configuration management, CAD integrations, AGV’s, A/I and A/R.

Susanne holds a degree in Production Engineering from her native Germany, and initially came to the United States as a member of the Space Shuttle manufacturing team. In April of 2017 Susanne received the prestigious STEP Ahead Award from the Manufacturing Institute for her achievements as a female in the manufacturing industry, and a few weeks later she was voted on the national BoD for Women in Manufacturing. Later that year she also received the Front-Line Leadership Award from the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance.

In February of 2021 Susanne was being named one of 20 women making their mark in robotics and automation by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering (SME).  Susanne is a past member of the Board of Directors for Women in Manufacturing (WiM), was also the chair of the WiM EF board, and was board member of the ASM Materials Education Foundation. She is currently on the advisory board for INP Sales.

In her spare time Susanne is an avid equestrian.