Personnel reports May 2019
Roland Abel becomes Head of Employee Experience
Qualtrics, provider of experience management software, appoints Roland Abel as new Head of Employee Experience (EX) Growth and Strategy DACH.
An HR expert in employee engagement, Abel brings extensive research and practical experience in the areas of best practices, risks and success factors of employee surveys. Abel looks back on more than twelve years of experience in the field of Employee Experience.
"My overarching ambition is to work with clients to develop modern solutions for surveying their employees and to make the most of the added value of Qualtrics technology"
Abel says.
To this end, he acts as a link between HR departments and the Qualtrics platform to ensure that everything runs smoothly.
"The motto here is that if you want to promote a culture of good listening, you must first - and continue - to listen carefully yourself."
Abel helps Qualtrics customers collect experience data that reflects the beliefs and experiences of their employees. In addition to operational data from sales, finance, or human resources, executives of global corporations increasingly rely on experience data from employees, customers, and market participants to make business decisions.
This is a competitive advantage, because many companies still rely on the classic annual survey. But they should ask their employees for their opinion at every important stage.
New Executive Board team at Akquinet
In order to cope with the constant growth and to be able to react faster to market changes, Akquinet will position itself more agilely for the future with a new executive team.
In addition to Till Vieregge and Thomas Tauer, both members of the Executive Board since 2016, Olaf Lange, Thomas Muszal and Michael Wienke were appointed to the Executive Board. With this mix of existing experience and new ideas, Akquinet is setting the course for success in the coming years.
With Olaf Lange, Managing Director in the area of agile organization and software development, and Thomas Muszal, Managing Director in the area of SAP and outsourcing, two younger colleagues are moving up to the Executive Board alongside Michael Wienke, who built up Akquinet's Finance and Controlling division and is returning from the Supervisory Board. Olaf Lange will dedicate himself to the development of agile organization and collaboration.
Thomas Muszal is responsible for SAP in addition to marketing and PR. Till Vieregge will continue to be responsible for Microsoft and Industry 4.0. Thomas Tauer is responsible for Outsourcing and Internal IT.
Dieter Lehmann will replace Michael Wienke on the extended Supervisory Board. The regular elections to the Supervisory Board will take place in September 2019.
"Our very special thanks go to the two outgoing members of the Management Board, Dirk Aagaard and Klaus-Dieter Gerken, who will remain loyal to the company and continue to build up and advise the emerging and strategically important Health division.
will be available"
said Norbert Frank, Chairman of Akquinet's Supervisory Board, about the new line-up of the Executive Board.
Gerd Simon becomes Managing Director at DCG
With Gerd Simon, the data center specialists of the Data Center Group complete the management team. In the future, the industrial engineer will manage the areas of marketing, sales and finance, as well as helping to shape the strategic direction of the company.
Gerd Simon is a recognized industry expert in data centers and digital infrastructures who has a broad professional network that he will now bring to the Data Center Group based on his more than 25 years of professional experience.
He became well-known back in the late 1990s as managing director and co-founder of Interxion, one of the largest data center and connectivity providers in Frankfurt.
The networker has been working as an independent strategy and management consultant for twelve years and supports companies in their digital transformation.
"DCG is continuously expanding the existing know-how. The choice of Gerd Simon is no coincidence. With him, an industry insider comes to the group of companies, who contributes his experience and knowledge in order to position our company more broadly nationally and internationally."
says Ralf Siefen, founder of DCG.
Top manager moves to T-Systems
takes over as head of the Internet of Things (IoT) business unit at the Telekom subsidiary.
"I am very pleased that Rami Avidan has chosen us. He knows the IoT business very well. He has extensive experience for leading such a growth field.
With his expertise in technology, sales, marketing and finance, he can give our Internet of Things business a powerful boost."
says Adel Al-Saleh, member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom and CEO of T-Systems.
Rami Avidan was previously CEO of Tele2 IoT. He had built up the IoT business area for the Swedish telecommunications company in the six years prior to that. Under his leadership, Tele2 became a leading IoT mobile network operator (MNO) during that time, according to market analysts.
After only a short time, he was already successful in the young IoT industry. "The Internet of Things is one of the biggest drivers of digitalization worldwide. It has reached almost all industries.
Only concrete experience and technologies from practice create value. Telekom simply offers everything for the Internet of Things. We advise, build the networks and ensure security," says Rami Avidan, explaining his move.
Minick-Scokalo and Jones appointed to the Board of Management
Avast has appointed Tamara Minick-Scokalo (above) and below) to the Avast Board as non-executive directors. Maggie Chan Jones is known in the industry as a thought leader in marketing and technology.
She was the first woman to become chief marketing officer at SAP, the largest enterprise solutions provider, and Forbes named her one of the most influential CMOs in the world.
She specializes in brand transformation and cloud-based enterprise transformation, and held leadership roles during her time at Level 3 Communications (now CenturyLink) and Microsoft.
Tamara Minick-Scokalo is a seasoned board member with over 30 years of professional experience with fast-moving consumer goods and in international markets. Most recently, she was President of Growth Markets and a member of the Executive Committee for the top 20 emerging markets at Pearson in London, where she led acquisitions and was responsible for corporate development in Brazil, China, India and South Africa.
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