Management team

Mac Gwozdz was appointed as CEO of the AMMEGA Group and as a member of the Group Executive Committee in October, 2020. In this role, he holds several board mandates within the AMMEGA Group.

Mac has 23 years of industry experience.

Mac came to AMMEGA from Outokumpu, Finland, a world leading stainless steel supplier, where he headed Business Area Europe as well as Global R&D and Operational Excellence.

Prior to Outokumpu, Mac served at ZF Friedrichshafen AG, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, as Senior Vice President of Steering Europe division, headquartered in Germany.

Prior to ZF Group, Mac served in several capacities at TRW Automotive, a leading supplier of automotive safety systems. His final role with them was as vice president of the company’s Steering Europe division, headquartered in Dusseldorf. His position previous to that was as Operations Director in England. He was also a legal representative of TRW Automotive at HEMA TRW Otomotiv Direksiyon Sistemleri, Turkey. Mac started with TRW in Poland.

Mac Gwozdz began on his professional path at the brewing firm of SAB in HR function.

Mac serves as non-executive director and board member at Oras Group.

Mac holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management/ WHU, USA/Germany.

Cem Cukurel was named the AMMEGA Group’s President Commercial for Power Transmission in January 2019. He is also a member of the Group Executive Committee.

Prior to the formation of AMMEGA, Cem held key roles for the Megadyne Group, including that of CEO of Turkey, the Middle East and Africa from 2013; CEO of Turkey, the Middle East, Africa and India from 2017; and CEO of EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) from 2018.

Cem joined the Megadyne Group from Rultrans A.S., where he had risen to become Managing Director. He first joined Rultrans A.S in 1993 as a Procurement Specialist and later held various positions in Logistics and Sales.

Cem Cukurel is a graduate of Bilkent University, where he studied Business Administration and Management.

Emil Słaboń was appointed Senior Vice President Global Operations in May 2023, and a year later, in May 2024 he became a member of the Group Executive Committee. Previously he was Vice President Global Head of Operations (Business Area PT) and Vice President Global Head of Operational Excellence.

Prior to joining the AMMEGA Group, Emil served as Vice President Global Head of Manufacturing Engineering at HELLA in Lippstadt, Germany.

Prior to his tenure at HELLA, he served as Managing Director of the ZF TRW Bielsko-Biała and Czechowice-Dziedzice plants in Poland. Emil Słaboń joined the automotive supplier in 2004, first serving as a Process Engineer.

Emil holds an EMBA degree in Business Administration from the ESSEC and Mannheim Business School and a Masters’ degree in Automation from AGH University of Krakow.

Fred Pensotti was appointed Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer of the AMMEGA Group and a member of the Group Executive Committee as of July 2025. 

Fred, a citizen of Italy and the U.S., has more than 20 years of strategic business and financial leadership experience across diverse industries, including significant expertise working within private equity portfolio companies. 

Fred joined AMMEGA from Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety, a U.S. national leader in behavioral health and eating disorder treatment, where he most recently served as Chief Financial Officer and then interim Chief Executive Officer. 

Prior to that, Fred was the CFO of Landstar Systems Inc., a NASDAQ-listed U.S.-based provider of integrated transportation management solutions. 

Earlier in his career, Fred held various CFO and Director-level roles across diverse sectors including logistics, wholesale distribution, investment management, airlines, and software solutions. 

Fred holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of Texas and an MBA from Cornell University. Additionally, he is certified as Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA).