Management
• DI Adolf Lauber
(Managing Director)
Adolf Lauber
Born on 1st April 1955 in Tarsdorf / Upper Austria.
Graduate from the University of Leoben.
Absolvent der Montanuniversität Leoben.<
Various managerial functions at the "Voest-Alpine AG" and at "VA Technologie AG"
and their successor companies in Austria, the USA and Venezuela.
Since 2001 managing director of Axima Holding GmbH and Axima Gebäudetechnik GmbH
in Vienna.
• Ing. Kurt Zothe
(Head of Contracting Business)
Kurt Zothe
graduate from Federal Higher Technical Institute for building services in Pinkafeld
/ Burgenland .
He worked as a sales engineer for refrigerating machines and climate systems and
as a project manager in the contracting business in Yugoslavia, Czech Republic,
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, before he joined our company in 1984. After his activity
as a project manager and as a profit centre manager, Mr. Zothe became head of the
entire contracting business division as at 1st January 2002.
Mr. Zothe is responsible for the operative management of the contracting business
at home and abroad, which is based in the head office in Vienna. Furthermore, he
is an authorised representative of the management for the safety and environmental
protection division in the contracting business. As a risk officer, he is also mainly
responsible for the risk management area.
In the intra-group control system CODIS, Mr. Zothe is a business process owner in
operating project management.
Bei den Auslandstöchtern der Holding unterstützt und überprüft er das lokale Management
der Ukraine im operativen Bereich.
• Ing. Helmuth Biermeier
(Head of Service Department)
Helmuth Biermeier, Head of Service Department
Helmuth Biermeier has been with Axima since 1984. He started as the head of the
system maintenance department.
Thanks to Mr. Biermeier’s efforts, the service area as a whole has become the quality
leader in the industry. His long-standing experience in service and maintenance
is complemented by innovative solutions in energy management and contracting as
well as in facility management.
Helmuth Biermeier graduated from the Federal Higher Technical Institute for Electrical
Engineering. He has been in the air conditioning sector since 1965. His career started
at "LUWA Klimatechnik GmbH", and he then switched to "Gebrüder Sulzer GmbH" in 1984.
In 2002 Helmuth Biermeier became the managing director under commercial law for
the main works of technical infrastructure.
• Mag. Stephan Kaluza
(CFO)
Stephan Kaluza, CFO
Stephan Kaluza became CFO at Axima Gebäudetechnik GmbH on 1st October 2005.
His tasks include internal and external accounting, controlling, reporting, administrative
order processing and tracking as well as treasury. Additionally, he is responsible
for transactions in the mergers & acquisitions field.
In the past, Stephan Kaluza had various positions within the OMV Group for over
14 years. At last, he was the managing director of "Kärntner Restmüllverwertungs
GmbH", a company dealing with the construction and operation of an incinerating
plant for domestic waste.
Stephan Kaluza studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics
and completed his studies with the "Magister" degree in social and economic science.