Axel Kock

Bridge Builder | Interim Management | Non-Executive Chair of the Board | MD | CSO | Pegasystems’s Partner Innovator of the Year

Germany

About

Sales-enthusiastic General Manager with 25+ years of experience in Solution Sales & Marketing, Enterprise Software, IT & Business Consulting, Transformation and Change Management. Love to drive hyper-growth and up-scaling journeys in innovative and enterpreneurial environments.The common theme of all my professional assignments is the passion for going after the new. Remaining in the comfort zone has never been appealing to me. I am experienced in leading cross-functional and international teams to high-perform and strive for common objectives, quite often under conditions of extreme uncertainty. But for all that, trusted relationships have been always in the center, may it be with a customer, a business partner, or a colleague and peer.

Experience

  • Executive Advisor & Interim Manager at Self-employed
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Market Management * Go-to-Market Transformation * Sales Excellence

  • Chairman of the Board / Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender at Greenfield Technology Aktiengesellschaft
    Dec 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

    Pegasystems’s Partner Innovator 2025 in EMEA and the leading Pega-only Partner in DACH www.greenfield.ag Consulting and Solution Services for AI-powered and process-driven Business Applications for Public Sector, Financial Services & Insurance (FSI) and Healthcare. Pega is a powerful low-code platform that builds agility into the world’s leading organizations so they can adapt to change. Clients use their AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation to solve their most pressing business challenges – from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, Pega has built scalable and flexible architecture help people focus on what matters most, so they can meet today’s customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow.

  • msg (Full-time · 4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Executive Vice President - Group Cloud Sales
      Jul 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      CLOUD FIRST and PARTNER ALWAYS: As an international group of companies, we at msg are creating added value in the digitized world by giving top priority to people, whether customers, employees or users of our solutions. To achieve that, we build on 40+ years of industry expertise and the creative and solution-driven entrepreneurial spirit that has always been our hallmark. We also draw on the diversity within our group of companies, from the initial idea through to the application. From this holistic view, we use the entire offering of our group like an intelligent swarm that constantly regroups depending on the task at hand. This is also expressed in our slogan “value – inspired by people”.

    • Executive Vice President - Head of Sales Insurance
      Apr 2021 - Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      With over 11,000 experts in 34 countries, we are represented in the world's most important markets. Long-term partnerships strengthen our pulling-power and ensure sustainable success. Because sustainability - in all aspects of our business activities - is a decisive and guiding value for us.

  • Regional VP & Head of Sales Germany (CSO) at OpenText
    Apr 2019 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs

    Enabling the Intelligent and Connected Enterprise: #OpenText is continued to be recognised for the market leadership by top industry analysts. OpenText is the Information Company™, the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), #1 in Content Services, and #1 in Business Network.

  • Head of Sales & Marketing at Interim Management "im Mittelstand": Member of the extended Management Board
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 · 6 mos

    Bringing B2B Sales and Marketing to the next level for two digital Hidden Champion companies