Personnel notifications November 2019
Enno Lückel joins Ceyoniq
Enno Lückel has been appointed head of the Ceyoniq Expert Center Professional ECM. Lückel brings 17 years of experience in the areas of document management as well as input and output management to his new position.
The 41-year-old comes from the American software provider Ephesoft, where he was most recently responsible for EMEA business as Vice President Sales. Further career stations were the US companies Nuance Communications and Notable Solutions.
Enno Lückel has been active in the industry since 2002. Especially in the areas of input and output management as well as in document analysis, the native of Wetzlar has built up a wealth of experience.
At Ceyoniq, Lückel will immediately head the Expert Center Professional ECM, which bundles the competencies around the EIM platform nscale at the Bielefeld-based company.
"Ceyoniq is a company with a long and successful history. After my previous work for American companies, the opportunity to work for an established German company with strong ties to a Japanese group is an exciting challenge."
says Lückel.
The key objective in the new position is to expand existing customer relationships and to expand business in the upper midmarket and in the area of specific customer solutions.
"In the medium term, Ceyoniq will also focus on expanding sales in Europe and beyond."
Former SAP manager strengthens Celonis
Hala Zeine is a new member of the management team at Celonis. As Chief Product Officer, the former SAP executive will be responsible for product strategy and management, overseeing go-to-market strategy and all product-related partnerships.
"Hala's extensive experience in product and portfolio strategies impresses us greatly. She will help us scale our business and drive the development of our roadmap. In addition, Hala knows the key application areas of our software very well."
says Alexander Rinke, co-CEO of Celonis.
"She manages to not only find an answer to current needs, but also has future challenges firmly in mind."
Hala Zeine was most recently President of Digital Supply Chain at SAP. In this role, she led product strategy and development for digital supply chain and manufacturing solutions, and was responsible for the global go-to-market.
She also integrated cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, digital twin and machine learning into the development of supply chain solutions. Since 2001, Zeine has held a number of leadership roles at SAP in marketing, development, solution management and consulting.
Prior to her position as President of Digital Supply Chain, she served as SAP's Chief Business Development Officer, responsible for SAP's product investments, commercialization strategies and corporate strategy execution.
Mendix appoints senior vice president for EMEA
Rob Van Lubek is the new senior vice president for EMEA at Mendix, a Siemens subsidiary. In the newly created position, he will be responsible for market launches across EMEA. He is also responsible for the regional alignment of all marketing plans and the development of growth strategies.
Van Lubek brings 20 years of IT industry experience. His focus has been on information and data processing companies, for which he has implemented deep growth strategies across EMEA, including Switzerland, Austria, the UK and Ireland, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe.
Prior to Mendix, Van Lubek was the area vice president for Northwest Europe at Commvault. Van Lubek also led sales teams at EMC for many years.
"Mendix revolutionizes software development with new capabilities in creation, maintenance and scalability"
Rob Van Lubek explains.
"I'm looking forward to seeing how our customers use Mendix to build the applications they need. I'm very excited to finally start working in Europe."
Ronny Schuh new at SAP Switzerland
Ronny Schuh has been appointed Head of Channel Management at SAP Switzerland. After a high school education, Ronny Schuh began studying business administration at the University of Trier, where he graduated with honors.
In the subsequent postgraduate studies at the Smurfit Business School in Dublin, he furthered his education to become a European Master in Business Studies. His working life took him to Switzerland right from the start. After working as a consultant at Hays, he joined Adecco as a team leader.
He then took on leadership roles in sales and business development at Axon Insight before joining SAP SuccessFactors in 2017 and gaining valuable experience in partner management as a sales specialist for the SME segment.
In his new role, Ronny Schuh has made it his mission to further develop the partner ecosystem as a central component in his business unit in Switzerland and to attract new innovative partners.
High priority is also given to transforming the existing partner landscape, redesigning the business model, and establishing a shared SAP vision.
Kai Grunwitz becomes Managing Director of NTT Germany
Kai Grunwitz will take over the management of NTT in Germany. Kai Grunwitz has been responsible for the Security business area at the NTT Group for five years, most recently for EMEA, and has held various management positions in the IT industry for more than 25 years, including at Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Andrew Coulsen, CEO Europe of NTT, explains:
"It gives me great pleasure to announce that Kai Grunwitz will take over as Managing Director for Germany. He was selected to lead NTT in Germany given his exceptional experience. Based on his competent leadership, I look forward with utmost confidence to our presence and future business activities here in the country."
Kai Grunwitz adds:
"I am very proud to lead NTT in Germany into a new and exciting era. NTT is a fantastic and innovative company that makes digital transformation a reality together with its customers. I am delighted to now be able to offer our customers in Germany the combined portfolio under the long-established NTT brand."
As Portfolio Manager at Claranet, Jan Kleinert is now responsible for monitoring the product lifecycle and further developing managed cloud services. Kleinert comes from the open source magazine Linux-Magazin, which he led as editor-in-chief since the end of 2000.
Matthias Steiner, previously Head of Central SAP Product Management, is the new Chief Product Officer at Neptune Software. Steiner has more than 20 years of experience in the development of software solutions, which he will now bring to Neptune's product portfolio.
Thomas Brösicke will be the new managing director of the operational business area SAP consulting at Promos. Most recently, Brösicke worked at Kommunale Wohnungsgesellschaft Erfurt, where he was responsible for managing IT projects and developing corporate strategies.
Ingrid Strauß becomes the new Managing Director at TTS Austria in Vienna. Strauß will be primarily responsible for the areas of software and learning. Strauß has been with the company for over ten years and has led countless TTS projects to success.
Robert Ekstrom is the new Vice President EMEA DACH and North at Blue Prism. Born in Sweden, his goal is to drive Blue Prism's growth and expand its customer base. He is also responsible for the support of existing customers.
Jens Hungershausen, Head of IT/CIO for IT at MEGA, was elected to the DSAG Association Board as the new Treasurer. Jens Hungers- hausen succeeds Beate Werner, Specialist for Legal Requirements in the Financial Systems department of Airbus.