Dipl. Ing. Michael Hahn moved to GINO GmbH Elektrotechnische Fabrik in 1998 due to a "management buy-in". With the acquisition of 33.3 % of shares in GINO GmbH, Mr. Hahn was responsible for the manufacture and worldwide distribution of power resistors as managing partner and since 2010 as a member of the Executive Board of GINO AG. Mr. Hahn has played a decisive role in the successful development of the company from a small, medium-sized family business to a globally active industrial enterprise. Most recently in 2015, Mr. Michael Hahn will be the only member of the Executive Board with overall responsibility for GINO AG.

Mr. Hahn completed a technical apprenticeship as an electronics technician for energy systems and after completing his baccalaureate, studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, where he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1983. After 8 years in the export business of Cyklop GmbH, Cologne, a medium-sized industrial company for packaging machines, Mr. Hahn moved to the Swiss FERAG / RMO-AG (Reist Marketing Organisation), an internationally active company for the further processing of printed matter, newspapers and magazines. There he was initially responsible for the Eastern European markets as authorized signatory. Later also for the establishment and management of a subsidiary, INTRACO A/O in Moscow / Russia, a trading company with a sales focus on print finishing.

A "sidestep" led Mr. Hahn to a position as managing director at Baumann Maschinenbau Solms GmbH, a medium-sized company for the manufacture and sale of processing machines for sheetfed offset printing presses. Among other things, he was responsible for the domestic and foreign agencies of MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, Frankfurt/Main. After another four years as an employed managing director, Michael Hahn was then looking for a new challenge with a technical orientation, but now with the aim of acquiring a stake in the company. After successful partner activity in the years 1998 - 2010 he was last appointed as the only board member of the now renamed GINO AG.