During this year’s member meeting, Peter Clauss, the sales director for CWS Fire Safety GmbH, was elected to again become a member of the board.  

Clauss has over 30 years of experience in the fire suppression industry. He has worked for Kidde Deutschland, Marioff, the Wagner Group, Stöbich Brandschutz, Protection One and Johnson Controls International. He is involved in and a member of various trade associations, codes and standards organizations and approval authorities in Europe, the United States and Russia.

Clauss was a member of the board between February and August 2020, but left due to a change of employer.

During the same meeting IWMA president Are Wendelborg Brandt of RISE, IWMA vice-president Dirk K. Sprakel of Fogtec, Alex Palle of VID Fire-Kill and Henrik Bygbjerg of Danfoss Fire Safety were confirmed in office. So was the chairman of the IWMA scientific council Hong-Zeng (Bert) Yu.