Personnel announcements May 2018
Atos appoints new CEO for Germany
Ursula Morgenstern is taking over as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Atos in Germany with immediate effect. She succeeds Winfried Holz, who has held this role since November 2008 and will retire as a consultant after a transition period.
Ursula Morgenstern is thus responsible for Atos' business in Germany with 12,000 employees. She is a member of the Atos Group Executive Committee and Atos Global Board Sponsor for the partner SAP SE as well as for the strategic initiative "Business Accelerators".
Morgenstern joined Atos in 2002 through the acquisition of KPMG Consulting. She has more than 20 years of experience in the technology business. Prior to her position as CEO of Atos in Germany, Ursula Morgenstern was responsible for the global Business & Platform Solutions business unit (since July 2015).
Prior to that, she held a number of management positions at Atos in the UK and Ireland, most recently as CEO of Atos in the UK and Ireland. Winfried Holz was CEO of Atos in Germany for almost ten years and helped shape Atos' rise to become one of the world's leading digital providers.
Since he joined the company in 2008, the number of employees at Atos in Germany has quadrupled and revenue has almost quintupled to more than two billion euros. Atos is now a global player in many forward-looking areas such as cybersecurity, data analytics, artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
Jacques Diaz heads Axians Germany
Jacques Diaz has been CEO of Axians Germany since April 1, 2018. Diaz has many years of management experience in the system house business. Most recently, the computer science graduate was Managing Director at Cancom, where he was responsible for the entire cloud and managed services business.
At Axians, he is to dovetail the traditional infrastructure business even more closely with the holistic solution and digital approach and expand the overall business.
Axians, as the strategic anchor of Vinci Energies in Germany, has reached a new stage in its expansion course and successfully completed its first business year as the bundled umbrella brand Axians:
While in 2017 the number of employees increased from 1700 to 1850 employees at 25 locations in Germany, the annual profit could be increased at the same time. The expansion of Axians' range of services is to be achieved in 2018 through external growth and the targeted acquisition of companies.
"Axians' strong embedding in the Vinci Energies network puts Axians in a unique position to provide companies with holistic and process-oriented ICT solutions for their digitalization from a single source. I am looking forward to the new task of driving Axians' profitable growth, developing future markets."
The change in the management team takes place in parallel with the further development of the management structure at Axians. Diana Coso has decided to take on a role outside the Group.
Ex-Hybris president strategic advisor to Celonis
Carsten Thoma, successful entrepreneur, investor and mentor to numerous startups worldwide, wants to invest in Celonis and become a strategic advisor to the process mining provider. Thoma co-founded Hybris in 1997 and sold it to SAP in 2013.
He helped lead the technological transformation of customer loyalty and commerce solutions, achieving the highest value for a private technology acquisition at the time.
Thoma was most recently president of SAP Hybris, where he was responsible for SAP's customer engagement and commerce business. Under his leadership, SAP made the significant shift to the cloud.
SAP Hybris solutions helped global leaders acquire, retain and grow a profitable customer base. Thoma was instrumental in SAP's successful paradigm shift in redefining the front office, revolutionizing the Marketing Cloud solution by integrating customer identity and profile management capabilities in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and transforming the development landscape with a microservices-based architecture.
Harald Schröpf new CEO of TGW Logistics
TGW Logistics Group has a new Chief Executive Officer. The former COO Harald Schröpf was presented by TGW Future Privatstiftung as successor of Georg Kirchmayr, who left the company after 17 years as CEO at the beginning of November.
Among others, TGW offers intralogistics solutions based on SAP as a system integrator together with partners.
Harald Schröpf, who holds a doctorate in physics, started his career in 2009 - after holding positions at Siemens and a German logistics company - as CEO of TGW Systems Integration in Wels, Upper Austria. In 2010 he was appointed to the management board of TGW Logistics Group.
Together with Jörg Scheithauer (CFO) and Christoph Wolkerstorfer (CSO) Harald Schröpf will manage the business of the TGW Group. TGW is an internationally successful system provider of highly dynamic, automated and turnkey logistics solutions.
In the past fiscal year, the company increased its sales by 17 percent to 621 million euros and EBIT by seven percent to 43.8 million euros. The number of employees grew by 400 to 2800.
New CEO at NTT Data for EMEA region
NTT Data has announced a new leadership structure to accelerate the unification of its three businesses operating in Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and Latin America - NTT Data EMEA, Itelligence and Everis: The new CEO of NTT Data EMEA is Benito Vázquez, effective immediately.
He was previously CEO of Everis, a consulting and outsourcing company. Vázquez's appointment is intended to drive the unification process, create a clearer management structure and strengthen accountability for growth and optimization in the region.
Vázquez reports directly to Koji Ito, Senior Vice President and Head of EMEA and Latin America.
Patrizio Mapelli, the current CEO of NTT Data EMEA, is stepping down and relinquishing all operational responsibilities. He will assume the role of senior advisor as well as chairman of NTT Data Italia. Eduardo Serra is appointed President of Everis, succeeding Fernando Francés, who is leaving the company.
Vázquez remains a member of the Board of Directors of Everis. Norbert Rotter retains the position of CEO of Itelligence and the NTT Data Business Solutions Group.
Initiative D21, Germany's largest network for the digital society, has elected a new board and appointed 30 people from member companies and organizations for the next two years. Hannes Schwaderer from Intel was confirmed as president.
Eric Wansong is the new senior vice president of customer success at Code42, a provider of cloud-based data protection and recovery for endpoints. Previously, Wansong held senior positions at Tangoe, VMware, SAP and BusinessObjects, among others.
IFS, a provider of business software, has hired Darren Roos as its new CEO. Previous CEO Alastair Sorbie is retiring at the end of the first quarter of 2018. Roos was most recently responsible for SAP's global cloud ERP business. Previously, he worked at Software AG, among others.
Flexera, provider of solutions for software licensing, cybersecurity and installation, has a new top management team in Germany: Thomas Reiber has been appointed Regional Vice President for Germany, Austria and Switzerland and is now responsible for the areas of software license optimization and data platform.
Global management and IT consultancy Capgemini has appointed Swiss Patrick Nicolet as chief technology officer. The lawyer has been with Capgemini since 2000. He will remain a member of the Executive Board. In 1993, he was named Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.
Diane Greene, CEO of Google Cloud, could soon join the SAP Supervisory Board. At the board's suggestion, she is to succeed Prof. Klaus Wucherer, who no longer wishes to extend his mandate. The decision will be made at the SAP Annual General Meeting on May 17.
