Personnel announcements December 2019 / January 2020
Thomas Saueressig joins the SAP Executive Board
Thomas Saueressig has been appointed to the SAP Executive Board. He will head the newly created SAP Product Engineering board department. This area includes the core product S/4 Hana as well as supply chain solutions, midmarket and industry solutions, user experience, SAP Knowledge and Education, SAP Labs Network, and Global Cloud Infrastructure Services.
In addition, he will assume responsibility for the Hana Enterprise Cloud area. With their focus on innovation and integration, Saueressig and his team will play a significant role in helping customers implement the intelligent enterprise.
"Thomas Saueressig has worked for SAP for 15 years and has the necessary skills and experience to lead both SAP and our customers to success"
said Professor Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP.
"He is an absolute role model in terms of his focus on customer and user satisfaction."
Thomas Saueressig joined SAP in 2004 as a student. He proved himself in various positions, primarily in SAP IT, where he was finally appointed SAP's Chief Information Officer in 2016. Since the beginning of 2019, he has been in charge of SAP Product Engineering, which will now become a separate Executive Board department. Saueressig himself said of his appointment:
"I thank the Supervisory Board and our Executive Board for their confidence that my team will successfully shape SAP's future. I will focus on developing intelligent solutions."
Peter Hanke takes over leadership position at NetApp
Peter Hanke is the new senior director Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. His goal is to expand NetApp's leading position in various business areas in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
To this end, he will make greater use of synergy effects in the German-speaking region. Peter Hanke can look back on a total of thirty years of professional experience in the IT industry. Important stations before NetApp included leading positions at Microsoft Austria, Citrix Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Informix Software.
At NetApp, Hanke has been employed since 2015 and led sales activities in Austria as Country Manager Austria and Managing Director before assuming interim responsibility for the entire DACH region in May 2019.
Commenting on the appointment, Alexander Wallner, senior vice president and general manager EMEA at NetApp, said:
"As Country Manager Austria for many years, Peter Hanke has gathered an enormous wealth of experience, which predestines him for the position of Senior Director Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In addition, as Interim Area Leader DACH, he has impressively proven that he is fully up to the special challenges of the region. We look forward to working with him to further expand our customer and partner base."
Hanke adds:
"I am very much looking forward to my new tasks as Senior Director Germany, Austria and Switzerland. IT transformation is increasingly becoming a consumerization model. On a local level, we will identify many synergies for this."
Three becomes four at T.Con
Thomas Blöchl is appointed as the fourth managing director of T.Con.
"As an owner-managed company, we act and think in the long term in the interests of our customers and employees."
says Karl Fuchs, spokesman for the management board.
"With Thomas, we are taking the first step into a new generation to ensure the continuity of our company."
Thomas Blöchl joined T.Con in 2006. There, the business informatics graduate started as a consultant in the SAP environment. In August 2010, he took over as head of product development. Among other things, Thomas Blöchl sees his new task as driving the company's further growth.
"It's been an exciting 13 years, but the next few years will be even more exciting. We are in a growing business field and have ambitious goals."
says Thomas Blöchl.
"We are working on consulting services and solutions for the digitalization of business processes, the increasing internationalization of business and the development of new software products."
Within the management team, Thomas Blöchl will assume responsibility for the consulting company's operational business as Chief Operations Officer (COO).
Ulrike Grimm becomes Vice President IT at Berner Group
Ulrike Grimm will be responsible for the renewal of the existing system landscape of the Berner Group as Vice President IT. The B2B trading company has thus strengthened its personnel for the development and expansion of a customer-centric architecture.
The project is an important part of the business model of the Berner Group with its trade brands Berner, BTI and Caramba Chemie Gruppe. Its tasks will include the design as well as the implementation of the IT strategy as well as the optimization of existing processes and their new development.
Ulrike Grimm joins the C-parts distributor Berner Group from SAP and reports directly to the CEO Christoph Möltgen. As Head of Industry Division Consumer, Process and Services at SAP, she successfully managed and developed a consulting industry cluster.
Prior to that, she also held management positions at T-Systems and Saint Gobain. Grimm combines decades of IT management experience with know-how around IT and enterprise architectures to lead the Berner Group to digital success in her new position as Vice President IT.
New member of Acatech
Uwe Clausen, Institute Director at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, has been accepted as a new member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech). Acatech members are admitted to the academy on the basis of their scientific achievements and reputation.
They are involved in the academy's thematic networks, in which scientific and overarching issues with a technology policy background are discussed. Acatech represents the German technical sciences at home and abroad in a self-determined, independent and public interest-oriented manner.
She also has an advisory role in German politics. Clausen is the institute director at Fraunhofer IML and at the Institute for Transport Logistics ITL at the Technical University of Dortmund. In his research, he and his team work primarily on efficient structures and processes for mobility and transport logistics, as well as on linking the various modes of transport.
At the European level, he represents the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI).
Jim Kruger will be the new chief marketing officer (CMO) at Veeam. In his new role, Jim Kruger is responsible for organizing Veeam's global marketing efforts, which are designed to strengthen the company's brand positioning for backup and recovery solutions.
Elie Girard is appointed the new CEO of Atos, following the nomination of his predecessor, Thierry Breton, as France's representative in the European Commission. The Supervisory Board of Atos thus takes note of the announcement by the French President.
Robbie Traube, previously vice president of Strategic and Vertical Accounts North America at Adobe, joins Zuora as chief revenue officer. Traube has a track record of more than 25 years in enterprise software sales.
Joachim Herwig is now Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and heads the IT and development division at Onventis. In the newly created position, the IT expert is responsible for the further development of the platform strategy for the company's all-in-one procurement network.
Florian Reithmeier is Datacore's new Vice President for Sales Central Europe. Reithmeier's responsibilities include the continuous expansion of close customer relationships and further development of key industries as well as new business opportunities with partners.
Richard Luckow will continue to drive WMD's growing business in the German market in the future. Luckow will set up and manage a new branch office for WMD in Frankfurt/Main in addition to his work as a key account manager. He has been working in sales for 25 years.
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