Personnel news June 2018
NTT Data Germany appoints Chief Client Officer
NTT Data Germany has appointed Dieter Loewe as Chief Client Officer. In the newly created position, he assumes management responsibility for customer relations in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, utilities, transport & logistics, public and services sectors in Germany, as well as responsibility for the countries of Austria and Switzerland.
The focus of the task is the sustainability of the recent very strong growth, the further increase of the high customer satisfaction as well as the positioning of NTT Data as a quality leader. The creation of the role of Chief Client Officer reflects the customer orientation for which NTT Data stands to a particular degree along the entire value chain.
As a companion to digital transformation, NTT Data ensures the future success of its customers in selected industries and provides them with the best possible advice on the path to becoming a digital enterprise.
Dieter Loewe has many years of professional experience in consulting and has achieved measurable growth in sales and profitability during his career - in various areas of responsibility, mainly in banking and insurance.
Before NTT Data, the business graduate was a partner at Steria Mummert Consulting. There, as a member of the Management Board Banking, he doubled sales within four years. His focus was on transaction banking, overall bank management and SAP banking.
New Chief Marketing Officer at Celonis
Anthony Deighton, the new chief marketing officer of Celonis, the global leader in process mining, has a clear goal: rapid market adoption for the powerful process mining software that companies use to drive their digital transformation.
Deighton will be responsible for global marketing and communications strategy at Celonis. Previously, he was chief technology officer (CTO) and senior vice president of products at Qlik and general manager for Siebel ERM.
Deighton is the latest addition as part of a significant expansion of Celonis' senior management team and tremendous market expansion. Deighton's signing builds on the company's annual growth of more than 300 percent and the acquisition of numerous Fortune 500 companies as customers. The recent appointment of well-known entrepreneur Carsten Thoma to the board also influenced the decision.
"We are thrilled to have Anthony Deighton join our management team"
says Alexander Rinke, CEO of Celonis.
"His extensive experience and success at Qlik and Siebel make him the ideal leader for Celonis' marketing strategy."
Deighton holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with honors from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics from Northwestern University.
Return to MHP
At the beginning of April, Andreas Barth joined MHP from the French software company Dassault Systèmes. As a Partner and Member of the Board of Management at the management and IT consultancy, the engineering graduate will head sales together with Andreas Hirning, adapting it to the changing requirements of the consulting industry and leading it into the future.
For Barth, the change is a return: He already worked in the same role for MHP from 2005 to 2009. He then coordinated SAP DACH's manufacturing and automotive business for almost two years as Head of Sales.
From November 2011 until his current move, Andreas Barth was Vice President and Managing Director EuroCentral at Dassault Systèmes, responsible for more than 1,500 employees and for the strategic expansion of the DACH region.
Andreas Barth:
"I have more than just a business relationship with MHP, especially with founder and CEO Ralf Hofmann and many former colleagues. This means that my move is also an affair of the heart."
Stefan Ries remains SAP Labor Director
SAP's Supervisory Board has extended the service contract of Stefan Ries until March 31, 2024. Ries, a member of the SAP Executive Board, is Chief Human Resources Officer and Labor Director.
"We look forward to continuing our successful collaboration with Stefan Ries"
said Prof. Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board.
"The digital transformation at our customers as well as at SAP is a top priority for us. Stefan Ries is an outstanding leader who takes the issue of customer focus very seriously - both internally and externally."
Ries was appointed to the SAP Executive Board in April 2016 with a term of office until 2019. At its regular meeting on April 12, 2018, the Supervisory Board resolved to extend his contract by a further five years until 2024.
Ries' responsibilities include human resources strategy and operations, social partnerships, talent and leadership development, compensation and remuneration, organizational effectiveness and learning, and diversity and inclusion.
Stefan first joined SAP in 2002. Until 2010, he worked in various global HR functions for the company, including managing the HR Business Partner organization.
Unity expert chairs VDI "Digital Factory" committee
Carsten Matysczok, Senior Expert at the management consultancy Unity, has been appointed Chairman of the Digital Factory Expert Committee of the Association of German Engineers.
In this position, the graduate computer scientist and business economist also works on the interdisciplinary Digital Transformation committee of the VDI. As technical committee chairman, he succeeds Prof.
Uwe Bracht from the Clausthal University of Technology. Matysczok's deputy is Prof. Sigrid Wenzel, head of the Department of Production Organization and Factory Planning at the University of Kassel.
"We will focus in particular on the topic of digital twins and the impact of Industrie 4.0 on the digital factory"
Carsten Matysczok gives an outlook on the upcoming tasks. With around 150,000 personal members, the VDI, founded 160 years ago, is Germany's largest technical and scientific association.
The Digital Factory Expert Committee aims to contribute to improving the competitive situation in industry by providing definitions of terms and instructions for practical implementation.
Philipp Wibbing, partner of the management consultancy Unity, was elected to the board of Prostep IVIP e. V.. The association is dedicated to the development of forward-looking solutions and standards for product data management and virtual product creation.
The RGA team has gained a new leader. David Toma moved from EY to the international innovation company. As the new Executive Director, he reports nationally to Sascha Martini and across all locations to Andrew Lam-Po-Tang, Executive Director Consulting EMEA.
Karl im Brahm is a new member of the Executive Board of Avaloq Europe and will be its CEO from July. Avaloq is a global provider of automation for the financial industry, enabling banks and asset managers to operate efficiently and in compliance using SaaS and BPaaS.
The management consultancy Horváth & Partners has appointed four partners: Levente Havas for Controlling & Finance, Michael Kappes in the Planning business segment, Bálint Palotai as Head of Strategy, Innovation & Sales, and Michael Reinisch, who heads the Procurement business segment.
Arcserve, a provider of data backup and recovery software, has unveiled Mick Bradley as its new vice president of sales EMEA. This continues the company's commitment to strengthening its relationships with resellers and distributors.
Network and IT services provider BT appoints Hila Meller as head of security for Europe. Meller joins from DXC Technology - formerly Hewlett Packard Enterprise. At DXC, she held several regional security leadership positions.
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