Leif Schick

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About Leif Schick

Founded in 1952, ELNA are expert suppliers in the yacht and marine sector providing advice and support in security technology, communication and electrical components. Since 2017, our business has been operated by the third generation of its founding family, further enhancing our approach to the yacht and marine sector. ELNA operates in four different business areas, always with a focus on marine electronics. We are specialized manufacturer of radio antennas, wholesaler and service integrator for the commercial marine market and under the FERROPILOT brand, we are a wholesaler in the German leisure marine market. Since 2019, we have been dealing with the growing damage caused by lightning. Conventional methods of preventing lightning damage do not provide adequate protection. A solution had to be found to protect the yachts. And the solution was a system which has been used on land for years but has not been further developed for the requirements at sea. Together with the manufacturer Dinnteco we offer that patented lightning protection system for yachts since 2020. The DDCE Marine is a lightning protection System against direct lightning strikes. The system performs a continuous potential equalisation to prevent positively charged upward streamer from the protected structure and thus prevents the formation of a flash channel and avoid the main discharge/lightning strike into the yacht. ELNA's technical team also offer a range of additional protection for indirect lightning strikes to ensure your vessel is always protected. In 2017, I took over the current ELNA GmbH from my father. Today, I am the owner and managing director of the family business founded by my grandfather. Before that, I worked for over 10 years in various purchasing departments at Tchibo GmbH. A Hamburg-based coffee, consumer goods and trading company. In addition to furniture, home textiles, kitchen and household appliances, I purchased consumer electronics and lighting products. The experience I gained in sourcing the huge variety of products I now bring to bear on a daily basis in the strategic sourcing and further development of ELNA's product range. At the same time, I successfully completed a degree in business administration. My ambition is to constantly adapt our family business to the new challenges in times of digital change and to keep it fit for the future:+49 (0) 4101 301-313 : Leif.Schick@elna.de :