Meet your STLE 2025 - 2026 President

Steffen Bots from ADDINOL Elected 2026-2027 STLE President

Steffen Bots, vice president of global sales & R&D for ADDINOL Lube Oil GmbH in Leuna, Germany, takes the reins as STLE’s 2026-2027 president, with his one-year term beginning in May. 

Bots has been involved in the lubricants business for more than 20 years, including five years as director of customer service and sales for OELCHECK GmbH, one of the leading laboratories for lubricant analysis throughout Europe. He was founder of LUBESERV, a global lubricant analysis service and lubrication consulting firm. In his current role at ADDINOL, Bots is responsible for global sales operations of the German lubricant manufacturer, which operates in over 120 countries with 15 affiliate companies and more than 90 distributors worldwide. His work focuses on technical sales support and market development, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region and North America through ADDINOL North America Inc. In addition, he oversees the strategic direction of the company’s R&D activities.

Bots has been an STLE member since 2010 and a volunteer since 2014. He was a member of both the STLE Certified Lubrication Specialist™ CLS) and Certified Oil Monitoring Analyst™ (OMA) Certification Committees and was chair of the OMA Committee from 2017 2018. He also has served on  the STLE Certification Board. Bots received his master of business administration and engineering degree from  the Munich University of Applied Science. He is a frequent presenter at the STLE annual meetings and other industry conferences in North America, Europe and Asia.

In 2023, he became a member of the Executive Committee, serving one year terms as treasurer, secretary and vice president. Joining him on the Executive Committee are Vice President William B. Anderson (Afton Chemical Corp.), Secretary Peter Lee (Southwest Research Institute), Treasurer Douglas Sackett (Dilmar Oil Co., Inc.), Immediate Past President Kevin Delaney (Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC) and STLE Executive Director Rebecca Lintow.