Personnel announcements June 2016
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Mario Zillmann is a new partner at Lünendonk
Mario Zillmann has been a partner at the market research and consulting firm Lünendonk in Mindelheim since May 2. This makes him the second partner of Lünendonk, which is managed by Jörg Hossenfelder and Jonas Lünendonk, alongside Hartmut Lüerßen.
Zillmann has been with the company since 2007 and was most recently responsible for the Professional Services market segment. There, he primarily advised customers from the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.
His focus is on IT services, sourcing strategies, business intelligence, and business innovation/transformation partners.
Since February 2015, Mario Zillmann has been supporting the E-3 Magazine with the monthly Lünendonk column in the information and education work for the SAP community.
"For me, Lünendonk's business model is unique in the business-to-business service environment. Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to accompany the company's development. I am looking forward to the new challenges"
says Zillmann.
"Mario Zillmann has been with our company for almost ten years".
says managing partner Jonas Lünendonk.
As Senior Consultant and most recently as Head of Professional Services, he has successfully implemented numerous study and consulting projects. Zillmann began his professional career with an apprenticeship as an insurance salesman and worked in key account management for a public insurance company until 2002. He then studied business administration in Berlin. The business graduate has been working for Lünendonk since 2007.
New Managing Director for WMD Benelux
Since April 1, 2016, Hans Willems has been the new Managing Director of WMD Benelux, based in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
WMD Benelux was founded in 2006 and is a subsidiary of WMD Vertrieb with headquarters in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. Willems takes over the management together with WMD Vertrieb GmbH.
The married father of two has worked for the WMD Group since 2012, most recently as Senior SAP Consultant. Other positions include head of the SAP Support Team Paris at BSN Glasspack as well as SAP FI/CO consultant and business analyst at DHL, Maastricht University Hospital and others.
In his new role as Managing Director, he will, among other things, continue to drive the strategic expansion of sales and market presence of the Dutch WMD subsidiary in the Benelux market.
Within this framework, cooperation with partners is also to be strengthened.
"By the end of 2017, we also plan to expand the WMD Benelux consulting team to then six employees"
Willems explains.
"With the xSuite information management platform, we offer companies a variety of intelligent workflow and process solutions, serve a wide range of platforms and IT systems, and link them together. We support worldwide use through multilingualism and a consistent installation concept."
WMD was founded in 1994. The software manufacturer is an SAP Software Solution Partner and, as an owner-managed company, supports more than 900 installations, of which more than 500 are in the area of SAP ERP.
New Head of Technology at Xeptum
Following the establishment of an additional management level in November last year, Xeptum was able to recruit Björn Gelhausen as the new Head of Technology, thus completing its management team.
With the newly created position, he has assumed responsibility for the topics of development, technology consulting and IT business management since April 1, 2016.
He will contribute his expertise in particular in the areas of SAP technology, optimization of SAP system landscapes, compliance, SAP Solution Manager and IT business management (holistic consulting for IT organizations) and drive these topics forward.
Gelhausen has been a member or speaker in several DSAG working groups for many years.
Bernhard Lang becomes member of the board at MSG Systems
Since April 1, Bernhard Lang has strengthened the management team of the industry specialist MSG.
The engineer has already worked for MSG for more than 15 years in various management positions within the group of companies and is now using his expertise to drive the international insurance business forward from his board role.
Lang takes over his new responsibilities for Products and Development from Frank Plechinger, who left the Executive Board for health reasons.
Lang performs this role in addition to his role as Co-CEO of MSG Global Solutions, an organizational unit of the MSG Group specializing in international insurance business.
Sycor brings in Ciber manager Ralf Stoll
Ralf Stoll has moved to Sycor, the Göttingen-based full-service IT provider, as Managing Director of the Strategic Business Unit Industrial Manufacturing/SAP.
In his previous professional positions, Ralf Stoll was, among other things, a member of the management of Ciber Germany and responsible for new customer sales within the management of Itelligence Germany.
The 47-year-old acquired his in-depth expertise in the SAP field as head of sales for manufacturing in the midmarket segment at SAP Germany, among other positions. In his new role, he will drive forward the strategic development of the SAP business area in southern Germany.
One focus will be on expanding industrial competencies in the process industry.
Branch Manager for SAP Integrator
Heike Spindler is Cpro Industry's new branch manager for the Munich location and is responsible for expanding sales activities in the region.
After studying industrial engineering at Aalen University of Applied Sciences, the native Swabian embarked on a sales career and can now look back on more than 20 years of ERP and twelve years of SAP experience.
Her previous focus was on license consulting as well as the sale of SAP solutions for medium-sized businesses, especially for the manufacturing industry, the automotive sector and for project service providers.
This makes Spindler a perfect fit for the company's profile. Cpro is a long-standing SAP Gold Partner and specialist for the integration of SAP solutions.
The digital business specialist Arithnea is preparing for further growth with personnel reinforcement. Martin Schröder is the new Quality Manager, Anja Helmbrecht-Schaar and Philip Reimann lead teams for E-Commerce & PIM at the locations Neubiberg near Munich and Frankfurt.
Microsoft Switzerland appoints Luca Callegari as new Head of Marketing & Operations. He joins the Swiss country organization from Microsoft Italy and will join the Executive Board on July 1, 2016. Callegari studied business administration in Milan and finance in Berkeley.
Victor L. Lund will be the new CEO of Teradata. He succeeds Mike Koehler, who is stepping down from his role as CEO and board member, effective immediately. Lund has been involved in the transformation, growth and development of companies across a wide range of industries throughout his career.
Franz Grohs took over as CEO of T-Systems Austria on May 1. He succeeds Dirk Lukaschik as Managing Director. Lukaschik joins T-Systems International as Senior Vice President for Global Accounts.
With Manfred Heisen and Daniel Kessen, the Bremen-based SAP service provider Abat has appointed two managing directors for its subsidiary AbatUS. Within three years, AbatUS' sales have quadrupled to $3.5 million. This accounts for a share of just under ten percent of total sales.
Former SAP Global Vice President Michael Fuchs has been appointed Global Special Representative for CIOs at the Diplomatic Council think tank. He will focus on how the digitalization of the economy and society can be managed and what this means for companies and executives.
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