Our Management

		Gerrit Heske, born on 3rd December 1964, was appointed President of Ball Packaging Europe in April 2009. Prior to this he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Ball Packaging Europe from January 2008. In 2003, he became Vice President Manufacturing, responsible for the manufacturing division of Ball Packaging Europe. The native-born German has been associated with the company since 1993 and has assumed various executive functions since then, like that of head of Quality Assurance/Quality Management and of head of the Research, Development and Engineering division.
		Frank Weekers, born on 27th January 1962, has been Chief Financial Officer at Ball Packaging Europe since February 2004. Effective 1999 he was Vice President Finance and Controlling at Schmalbach-Lubeca AG and following the takeover of the company by Ball Corporation he continued to be responsible for this division in the same function for Ball Packaging Europe. Starting in 1988, the native-born Dutchman exercised various functions in different divisions at Thomassen & Drijver, a subsidiary of Schmalbach-Lubeca, in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1995 he moved to the corporate headquarters of the parent company in Germany.