Personnel notifications July/August 2019
Matthias Wahl confirmed as BVDW President
BVDW members rely on constancy at their general meeting: Matthias Wahl is president of the German Digital Economy Association (BVDW) for two more years and is thus entering his third term of office after the 2015 and 2017 elections.Matthias WahlBVDW members rely on constancy at their general meeting: Matthias Wahl is president of the German Digital Economy Association (BVDW) for two more years and is thus entering his third term of office after the 2015 and 2017 elections.
The BVDW members have re-elected most of the previous presidium and added new heads from the digital industry. BVDW President Matthias Wahl sees his course confirmed:
"Over the past four years, we have continuously developed the BVDW into the decisive driving force of the digital economy with a consistent core in the Presidium, and in the process initiated, accompanied and completed numerous change processes."
At their meeting last year, BVDW members passed a resolution to amend the association's articles of association in order to work even harder to increase the visibility of women in the digital economy and make the BVDW more attractive as a platform for female digital experts. One year later, the Executive Board is taking positive stock: A woman has been elected to the chair in eight of the nine committee elections held since the last General Meeting.
Voice elects new presidium
Voice, the federal association of IT users, elected its ten-member executive committee at its general meeting. Hans-Joachim Popp is the new Chairman of the Executive Committee.
"I am delighted that we have been able to recruit such outstanding people for the Presidium. This puts us in a position to deal with our large portfolio of topics with a high level of competence and to formulate demands."
sums up Popp.
"I will continue to intensively pursue both central concerns of our federal association: To be a knowledge and exchange platform for digital decision-makers and, at the same time, to represent the interests of IT-using companies vis-à-vis politicians.
Especially in times of rapid technological and social change, Voice is called upon in many places. We must enable our companies to benefit more intensively from advancing digitization. This includes, for example, demanding fair licensing and usage conditions from manufacturers."
New Managing Director at Digital Hub Cologne
Thomas Bungard joins the full-time management of Digital Hub Cologne. He thus replaces the current interim Managing Director Marc Kley, who will return to his duties as Head of the Gateway Start-up Service at the University of Cologne.
Thomas Bungard is a nationally and internationally experienced manager with more than 20 years of leadership experience in various board and management positions in medium-sized companies.
The certified innovation manager and Scrum master was most recently able to demonstrate his passion for innovation and transformation as well as his agile personality as managing director of the Digital Impact Lab Leipzig.
In addition, the start-ups in the USA, England and Germany for which he was responsible have shaped his curiosity for and view of change.
"I am looking forward to the new and, for me, very exciting task of working together with the shareholders and the team to make the Digital Hub Cologne even more attractive for SMEs through a greater presence, new service offerings and closer cooperation."
says Thomas Bungard.
Achim Berg re-elected as Bitkom President
Achim Berg has been re-elected as president of the digital association Bitkom. Berg was unanimously confirmed for a second term of office at the Bitkom Annual Conference in Berlin. Ulrich Dietz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of GFT Technologies SE, and Michael Kleinemeier, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, were confirmed as Bitkom Vice Presidents.
"I would like to thank the Bitkom members for their trust. In the next two years, as Bitkom president, I will work to bring more speed and more determination to digital policy. Digitization is the best thing that can happen to us as a country poor in raw materials. Now we also have to make the most of it.
Berg said.
"Germany and Europe need their own digital agenda and must strengthen their digital sovereignty to avoid being ground down in the escalating dispute between the U.S. and China.
Digitization can help us master the major challenges of the future - from a fair and good healthcare system to resource-efficient mobility and climate protection. It deserves our attention."
Michael Missbach new at Rackspace
Since June of this year, Dr. Michael Missbach has been employed by Rackspace, bringing his many years of SAP expertise to the American web hoster. Currently, Rackspace is much more than a hoster, but also an SAP Silver Partner.
This gives Michael Missbach a challenging work environment. He himself is known throughout the SAP community as a book author and dedicated speaker. His presentation strength lies in perfect comparisons between the SAP and real world.
With his many years of SAP knowledge, he can present even the most complex issues in the best possible way. Before Rackspace, he spent many years at HP in Walldorf, after which he built up the SAP Competence Center for Cisco and introduced Cisco to the SAP community worldwide.
From there, he moved to SAP partner Freudenberg IT and specialized in Hana implementation for IBM Power, among other things. In this role, he also supported the E-3 editorial team in creating the Hana Power cover story in June of this year, where Michael Missbach can also be seen on the cover.
Freudenberg IT was acquired by Syntax this year and Michael Missbach went to Rackspace, thus remaining part of the SAP community.
Andrzej Kasprzyk has been appointed as StarTech's new Vice President of Sales Europe. He will lead the sales team in this role with immediate effect. The goal is to expand the European business and develop new markets in the region. Kasprzyk is experienced in building high-performance teams.
Jens Woehlbier is the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Werum IT Solutions. He succeeds Rüdiger Schlierenkämper. Before joining Werum, Woehlbier worked in various positions at Accenture. There he was responsible for IT transformation projects in industry.
Ralf Lommel is the new Area Director DACH at Cherwell Software. Among other things, he is responsible for the further expansion of sales structures and the new Customer Success department. Lommel has more than 30 years of experience in corporate sales and management.
Tim Schütte is responsible for global sales at Compart as Chief Sales Officer. He brings more than 20 years of experience in IT sales with various global players, including Oracle and Microsoft. In addition, Tim Schütte was involved in the founding of Cloudpartner in 2012.
Dirk Kastner, former CIO at Edeka, is moving to Scholderer. There, the 52-year-old will take on tasks as SLA and interim manager with immediate effect. Kastner has more than 20 years of experience as an IT manager. Among other things, he was Managing Director of the Data Center South.
Jacques Vigneault has been appointed executive vice president and managing director of DiCentral Europe. Vigneault has experience in EDI and supply chain management. He started at Alligacom, which was acquired by DiCentral.
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