Personnel announcements March 2021
Reinforcement for SAP Unit of the PTA Group
Tim Lessel strengthens the SAP consulting business of the management consultancy PTA, headquartered in Mannheim. The goal of the new Head of SAP is the consistent expansion of the SAP business area in the context of S/4 Hana. Under Lessel's leadership, the PTA Group also aims to consolidate its position as a reliable digitization partner in the SAP market.
"We are very pleased to have gained an experienced SAP expert in Tim Lessel. His existing network of customers and partners will help us to achieve the goals we have set ourselves in our SAP business area.", says Matthias Wossidlo, Managing Director of PTA. Lessel looks back on a successful career as an SAP consultant in leading positions and was most recently responsible for a competence center unit in the SCM area at NTT Data Germany as senior manager.
In this role, he played a key role in the development and expansion of SAP business and therefore brings with him extensive expertise in business development and strategies.
Tim Lessel on his entry into the PTA: "I am looking forward to taking on the responsibility of the SAP consulting business and, together with a strong team, to accompany it on its way to the next stage of development. In many preliminary discussions with those responsible, I have already been able to get to know the potential and know-how of PTA and I am convinced that in the future we will play an important role in the digital transformation with the help of S/4 at our customers."
New faces at Celonis
Dave Peterson and Christian Flaccus join Celonis. Peterson becomes the new chief marketing officer and Flaccus has been named chief design officer.
Peterson is co-founder of Play Bigger, a category design consulting firm, and co-author of the book "Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets". Dave Peterson brings to Celonis 30 years of experience in business operations, marketing and category design.
In his ten years at Play Bigger, Peterson and his partners have designed more than 50 business categories, coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, and helped their clients generate tens of billions in enterprise value through category design.
The new Chief Design Officer Christian Flaccus brings 20 years of experience in developing the brand and digital strategies of leading companies. Most recently, he was Managing Creative Director at SNK, a renowned agency for UX design and B2B communication.
Flaccus was also part of the founding team of the successful e-commerce platform Hybris, which was later acquired by SAP. After the acquisition, he led the brand strategy as well as its development and implementation at SAP Hybris for more than 15 years.
"It takes a special set of skills to drive our category, our marketing and all the creative processes that go with it" says Alexander Rinke, co-founder and co-CEO of Celonis. "Dave and Christian are experts."
Trend Micro expands its presence in Germany
Hannes Steiner joins Trend Micro's team in Germany. Despite the corona pandemic, the company continues to grow and is pleased to have new support and expertise as Hannes Steiner takes on responsibility for the Japanese IT security provider's business in Germany in his new role as Vice President Germany.
Steiner, who has already worked for Trend Micro since 2016 as Senior Director Sales Germany, will lead Trend Micro's business in Germany in his new position as Vice President Germany.
He takes over this role from Frank Schwittay, who, due to the company's growth, will be concentrating on his role as Vice President Europe in the future and previously held both positions in a dual capacity.
"As Vice President Germany, in addition to providing strategic leadership for Trend Micro in Germany, I look forward to supporting our customers' business leaders and IT teams in addressing new security requirements. The ongoing digital transformation, the merging of IT and OT, and a rapidly changing threat landscape require a thoughtful and holistic approach to security", says Hannes Steiner.
Brian Duffy leads Rise with SAP
Brian Duffy, a 15-year veteran of SAP, will lead the Rise with SAP business unit as president of cloud.
In his new role, Duffy will lead the global organization responsible for the cross-enterprise collaboration required to drive customers' journey to the cloud. Duffy has held numerous leadership positions in various regions and functions at SAP.
Since 2017, Duffy has served as president of SAP's EMEA North region, where he earned a reputation for driving customer intimacy, focusing on results and leveraging the partner ecosystem for business success. Building on this success, Duffy worked to pilot Rise with SAP and reached landmark agreements that shaped the new offering.
Duffy will report to Scott Russell, SAP board member for Customer Success. "Brian's extensive customer focus and global background give us great confidence that he is the right leader to deliver Rise with SAP, the new business transformation as a service, to our customers", Russell said.
New Managing Director at Capgemini
Henrik Ljungström is now Managing Director of the Germany business unit at Capgemini. In this role, he succeeds Michael Schulte, who in turn has been appointed to the Capgemini Group Executive Board, where he is responsible for the newly formed Northern and Central Europe strategic business unit.
Ljungström was most recently responsible for the automotive business, one of the largest units at Capgemini in Germany, for six years. Prior to that, he held various leadership positions in management and at IT project level in both Germany and the US.
Ljungström started his Capgemini career in 1993 at the then subsidiary sd&m. Born in Sweden, he studied business informatics at the University of Darmstadt.
Michael Schulte was Managing Director of Capgemini's German business unit from 2018 to 2020. Previously, he was responsible for the Application Services division in Germany and also held management positions in strategy and management consulting in Germany and the US. He joined the company in 1993 through Gemini Consulting, now Capgemini Invent.
Petri Wallenius takes over the management of Turnkey Consulting Germany. Wallenius, who has held various management positions as an SAP and compliance expert for Turnkey and Panasonic subsidiary Sanyo since 2012, succeeds company founder Heinrich Wilking.
Marc Black has been appointed to the Qvest Group management team as COO. During his career to date, Schwarze has accompanied numerous companies in various management positions on the path to digitization and cloudification of their media production chain.
Linda Haase joins the channel team at Trend Micro. In her new role as enterprise account manager MSP, she will recruit new partners and expand existing partnerships. Haase can draw on her many years of experience in sales and the channel.
Sascha Dörr and Holger Geiger are to drive the automation and digitization of business processes for customers as Cortility's new managing directors. Together with long-time managing director Klaus Nitschke, they now form the management team at the SAP partner.
Ines Ben Brahim joins Capgemini's sales and business development team. A native of Vienna, she is adept at building and expanding long-term client relationships. She brings a strong background in business development, B2B sales as well as partner management.
Klaus Müer is now the sole shareholder of WSW Software. To this end, Müer has taken over the business shares held by SALT Solutions in the amount of 75 percent. WSW Software, which has been a subsidiary of SALT Solutions since 2012, is now fully independent again..
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