Personnel announcements December/January 2021
New faces on the DSAG board
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is the DSAG board member for finance.
At the virtual general meeting held as part of DSAGLIVE, the alternative offering of the German-speaking SAP User Group e. V. (DSAG) for the 21st DSAG annual congress in Mannheim, new positions were filled on the association and specialist board.
Jens Hungershausen, full-time Head of IT/CIO for IT at MEGA eG, was elected as the new Chairman of the Executive Board. He takes over from Marco Lenck, who did not stand for re-election in accordance with the Articles of Association.
The association's board is responsible for the strategic development of DSAG. Jens Jarick, full-time Head of IT Finance, Commercial and Logistic Services at Infraserv, was elected as the new Treasurer.
Jens Jarick takes over the position from Jens Hungershausen, the new CEO. The previous specialist board area of Operations/Service & Support has been split into two separate areas. Thomas Henzler, full-time CIO at Piller Blowers and Compressors, was newly elected for the Licenses and Maintenance area.
Christine Tussing, who is responsible for Process and Digital Technology Management at Freudenberg, has been appointed Member of the Board of Management for Transformation Management IT. In addition, the Finance Division was newly established and Karin Gräslund, full-time Professor of Business and Financial Informatics at the Wiesbaden Business School of the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden and Rüsselsheim, was appointed to the Board of Management.
By establishing the new board areas, DSAG is responding to the need for increased technical discourse with SAP. From the point of view of the departments on the company and user side, this places greater emphasis on business process expertise.
Jean-Claude Flury, full-time CIO at household appliance manufacturer V-ZUG, is the new Executive Board member for Switzerland. In his new position, Flury wants to bring together users with their wishes and concerns on the one hand and SAP with their goals on the other in a "constructive, critical dialog.
"If you listen to each other, understand each other, and work on solutions, concrete demands are also a goal-oriented basis for discussion"Flury is convinced.
He sees one of these discussion bases with SAP in S/4. In addition, there is a need for clear roadmaps as to where the solutions will develop. SAP is also called upon to support customers in the digital scenarios for the new products, says Flury. Daniela Meisenheimer, who has been in charge of Marketing & Sales since the beginning of 2020, and Steffen Pietsch, who is responsible for Technology, will remain in office.
Meisenheimer is responsible for international corporate communications and digital marketing at Döhler. Pietsch works at Haufe-Lexware Solutions. Walter Schinnerer, full-time head of the SAP Customer Center of Expertise at Austrian Social Security, was also confirmed for a further term of office as Executive Board member for Austria.
Ralf Peters (Digitalization, Finance and Value Chain), Andreas Oczko (Operations/Service & Support) and Christian Zumbach (Switzerland) stepped down from their positions on the Executive Board. They and Marco Lenck were thanked by DSAG for their many years of service and wished all the best for the future.
Haihong Xin becomes CEO of Syntax Systems Asia
Haihong Xin is the new CEO of Syntax Systems Asia and in this position is responsible for the IT service provider's business in the entire Asia-Pacific region (APAC). Xin is a proven SAP expert and has worked as an IT consultant in the region for over 20 years. He is expected to continue the growth path Syntax Systems Asia has been on since its founding 15 years ago.
Xin succeeds Swiss national Reto Bless, who built Syntax's China business and did great things for the company's strong position in Asia. Prior to joining Syntax, Xin led CDK Global's operations in the APAC region as vice president and managing director. Here, he continuously increased sales and profits for more than a decade.
Prior to that, he spent ten years at SAP in development, consulting, managed services and service delivery before joining EDS-HP as an IT outsourcing executive. Haihong Xin is fluent in Mandarin, Japanese and English and holds several academic degrees, including a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, a master's degree in science & technology and a doctorate in industrial systems and engineering.
Jörn Petereit now on the Bitkom Executive Board
Jörn Petereit, COO of Cloudflight, was elected to the main board of the German digital association Bitkom e. V.. The aim of the digital association is to promote the digitization of business, society and administration in Germany. Bitkom members contribute to this in various ways - by developing software, providing Internet services or hardware, or activities in the digital media.
Cloudflight was admitted to the Bitkom digital association in October 2019. The election of Jörn Petereit to the board demonstrates the importance of software development companies for digitalization and the use of advanced AI applications for the benefit of business and society. Petereit will bring experience and expertise to his board work to advance digitization in Germany.
"I would like to thank you for accepting me as a member of Bitkom's main executive board."says Jörn Petereit about his election to the board.
"I am pleased to make my contribution as part of Bitkom to drive forward the digitization of business, society and government in the future. In times of corona crisis, this is more important than ever!"
New Managing Director at Centric Germany
Jens-Peter Hess is the new Managing Director at Centric Germany. In his new role, he will drive the rollout of SAP HR solutions into the SAP Cloud Platform. He comes to Centric from Easy Software AG, where he was most recently Senior Vice President Portfolio Management responsible for the overall portfolio of ECM and SAP solutions.
The Hamburg native specializes in document-intensive business processes in the SAP environment. He and his team joined Easy as experts in this field in August 2015. Previously, he had built up and been responsible for the SAP ECM business area at Nextevolution, where he won and supported numerous DAX companies, among others.
He is now returning to the SAP environment with his move to Centric and will be part of a two-person management team, alongside Steven Wernike, who heads the company's add-on tools division for SAP HCM.
As Managing Director, Jens-Peter Hess will make the established Centric solutions for implementing the internal control system (ICS) in payroll accounting available for the SuccessFactors HR management system in the future. The portfolio is also to be expanded to include add-on products.
Bhuwan Agrawal has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Germany and Austria. Agrawal has worked for TCS for 18 years, most recently as Head of Retail in North America. In this role, his responsibilities included market strategy as well as major transformation projects.
Markus Scheffler takes over the position of Chief Marketing Officer at Plusserver. In his position, the 50-year-old is responsible for marketing. He moves from the logistics platform company Transporeon, where as Marketing Director he drove the international positioning of the company.
With immediate effect, Udo Littke takes over the role as head of the
Central Europe region for Atos. In his new role, he is responsible for the
Business for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the region of Eastern and Southern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia).
Armin Müllner will strengthen the Red Hat team in Austria as Manager Territory, Partner and Alliance Sales. The graduate of the Vienna University of Technology has gained a wide range of experience in the domestic IT industry in the past. For example, he worked for Microsoft for many years.
Thomas Ahlers and Stephan Reiss expand Sycor's management team. Thomas Ahlers will be responsible for strategy and SAP and Microsoft consulting. Stephan Reiss will be responsible for sales and marketing as well as Sycor's data center and cloud services.
Johann Vranic is the new CEO of Libelle AG. Among other things, Vranic is responsible for marketing and sales. The graduate economist attended the universities of Tübingen and Beijing and brings with him extensive experience.
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