Personnel news February 2017
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Mike Eberhard becomes Concur President
SAP subsidiary Concur, a provider of integrated travel planning and expense management solutions and services, has named Mike Eberhard president.
Eberhard, the current president of global distribution and a 13-year veteran of Concur, will lead the company into the next phase of growth and SAP connectivity. Commenting on his appointment, Eberhard said:
"I am deeply honored to accept this new role and am committed to continuing to build our customer experience in a complex and ever-changing environment, and to continue to deliver continuous travel and cost innovation to our customers around the world."
He joined Concur in 2003 and has held a number of leadership roles, including Executive Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific, Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales and Business Development, and most recently President of Global Distribution.
Eberhard succeeds Elena Donio, who has accepted an executive position with another company. Donio had been president of Concur since 2014, following the company's acquisition by SAP, and during her 18-year tenure has played an integral role in leading the company and some of its most significant milestones - from its transformation to a cloud company to the expansion of Concur's offerings for the midmarket.
Ceyoniq expands Management Board
As the new Managing Director, Carsten Maßloff is now responsible for consulting and sales at Ceyoniq in the DACH region.
Prior to that, Maßloff held the same position for nearly five years at Ceyoniq Consulting, which most recently merged with Ceyoniq Technology.
The SAP Silver Partner intends to use the personnel restructuring to better dovetail its solution portfolio for DMS/ECM and in IT strategy and process consulting.
The IT expert was Managing Director of Ceyoniq Consulting since 2012, whose focus was on information security as well as SAP consulting for utilities and insurance companies. Within the management team, he will assume overall responsibility for sales in the DACH region and consulting.
Linking the two focal points of information management and information security is intended to help corporations exploit dormant potential, since only the interlinking of an ECM system with individual consulting allows customized and thus optimal information management.
At the same time, he said, this holistic service helps close security gaps and counter the growing threat of cybercrime.
Maßloff will have an industry focus on utilities. Key areas of focus will include projects in maintenance as well as SAP energy management systems.
The new consulting service will also cover information security topics. Prior to joining Ceyoniq, Maßloff served as Consulting Division Manager BTC Business Technology Consulting from 2004 to 2011.
Bernd Leukert leads digitization initiative
SAP Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert takes over as head of the steering committee within the Industrie 4.0 platform.
The joint project was founded in 2013 by the German trade associations Bitkom, VDMA and ZVEI. Its goal is to further develop and implement the future-oriented Industry 4.0 project of the German government's high-tech strategy.
In April 2015, this platform was relaunched with additional players from politics, business and trade unions.
After two years, Siemens Managing Board member Prof. Siegfrid Russwurm hands over the chairmanship of the Steering Committee in rotation.
The steering committee, which is made up of high-ranking entrepreneurs, is responsible for industrial strategy development, content orientation and safeguarding the results of the working groups.
VDMA trade association elects SAP expert as chairman
At the general meeting of the German Engineering Federation, VDMA, Software and Digitization Association, the members elected a new board as scheduled.
After three years in office as chairman, Burkhard Röhrig, managing partner of GFOS in Essen, has now handed over the task to the new chairman Karl Friedrich Schmidt, managing director of SAP consulting Accelcon Consulting.
The company specializes in IT and SAP consulting for manufacturing companies. Schmidt already has many years of experience on VDMA board committees.
From 2013 to 2016, he was vice chairman of the trade association, and since 2008 he has been active on the board of the VDMA Central Regional Association.
Urs Sträuli expands iXenso board of directors
The ECM and DMS specialist iXenso expands its management. At the turn of the year, the management of the iXenso Group was expanded by Urs Sträuli.
As Chief Operation Officer, Sträuli will be responsible for sales and the entire operational business of the internationally active iXenso Group, which has locations in Germany (Freiburg, Munich and Hanover) and Switzerland.
His tasks also include the supervision and support of strategically important key accounts. Sträuli has been a member of the Board of Directors of iXenso Switzerland since 2014.
With an SAP partnership and planned country offices in Italy and Spain, iXenso aims to continue on its growth path.
Stefan Trondl is the new general manager at Dell EMC
Following the merger of Dell and EMC to form Dell Technologies in September 2016, details of the country organization are now increasingly being announced: In Austria, EMC country head Stefan Trondl will lead the new company's business as General Manager of Dell EMC in Austria from February 1, 2017.
Pavol Varga, currently General Manager Austria & Slovakia at Dell, will assume responsibility for the North Eastern Europe region in the future.
This includes the Baltic states, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the western members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Trondl has been working in IT for more than 20 years, since June 2014 as Country Manager at EMC Computer Systems Austria. He spent a large part of his career at CA Software.
Graph database provider Neo Technology strengthens its sales team in Europe and appoints Dirk Möller as Area Director of Sales CEMEA. Dirk Möller has been working in the IT industry for more than 20 years. He has worked for Symantec, MongoDB and Couchbase, among others.
Paul Neumann joins the supervisory board of All for One Steeb. He is a member of the Management Board and core shareholder of Invest AG, an Austrian company based in Vienna. This means that the six-member supervisory board is once again fully staffed.
Project0708 consultant Robert Fieser has been a lecturer at Munich University of Applied Sciences since this winter semester. His lecture series "The Future of Human Resources Management" offers practical insights into trends and future requirements in human resources management.
National Councilor Marcel Dobler is to become the new ICTswitzerland president. The board of the ICT umbrella organization ICTswitzerland is proposing this to its delegates' meeting on March 16, 2017. The entrepreneur and FDP politician is to succeed Council of States member Ruedi Noser, who has presided over the association since 2009.
IDAP has expanded its management team. The medium-sized IT consulting and software company with a clear focus on logistics processes in the SAP environment has appointed Jörg Loosen as an additional managing director, who will be responsible for the areas of development and technology.
Hitachi Data Systems Switzerland has appointed Denise Richard as its new channel chief. Richard previously served as marketing manager at the company and has five years of professional experience at IBM. She succeeds Daniel Oberholzer, who moved to Swiss smart home provider Digitalstrom.
