Francis Cepero

CEO | P&L | Strategy | Coach | Investor

Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Focused on getting things done. Believe in people, empowerment and collaboration. For more than 25 years, I have worked across security, software, manufacturing, telecoms, media, and other industries. Not because I was collecting sectors, but because I was following a consistent belief: technology only matters when it creates real change for real people. Today, I lead Primion with a clear conviction: converged security is one of the most important and most misunderstood topics in business. Too many security decisions are driven by fear, buzzwords, complexity, or vendor noise. My focus is to cut through that. If you are a security leader, a C-level executive navigating digital transformation, or a talent looking for a place where you will be challenged to grow, let’s connect.

Experience

  • Group CEO at Primion Technology GmbH
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    As CEO, I look forward to building on Primion's strong reputation for delivering exceptional customer service, innovative security solutions and advanced applications. Together with our talented team of nearly 500 experts in 5 European countries, a sizable partner network, more than 25 years of experience from +10.000 installations, we will continue our accelerated growth strategy, driving value by protecting our customers' employees, assets and data through converged physical security, access control, time & attendance, IoT and video surveillance applications. We will continue developing expanding our strong customer references in vertical markets like transportation, critical infrastructure, healthcare, education, government and telco, among others.

  • Member of the Board of Advisors at Qore Health
    Feb 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

  • Business Unit Lead (IoT/ML/Vertical Solutions) at A1 Digital
    Feb 2017 - Jul 2024 · 7 yrs 6 mos

    Full P&L responsibility leading a multidisciplinary business unit designing, developing and delivering profitable Solutions around IoT and Data Science. Design and implementation of capability based strategy leading to consistent double digit growth YoY. Driving highest industry recognition with the inclusion of A1Digital in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for IoT Managed Connectivity Services Worldwide in 2020. Design and delivery of large scale IoT projects Having fun reducing complexity and improving return on assets for our customers. www.a1.digital

  • SAP (18 yrs 7 mos)
    • VP, Innovation & Technology - Media, Sports & Entertainment
      Feb 2015 - Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

      As a member of the Industry Leadership team, I helped close multi-million sales deals through innovation and technology projects that demonstrate the art of the possible for digital technology in the Media, Sports and Entertainment industries. Innovation focus areas: IoT, Blockchain, Omnichannel Fan Engagement, Audience Mgmt Platform, Machine Learning, Video driven commerce platforms and Entertainment Business Networks.

    • VicePresident, Enterprise Architecture CoE
      Feb 2014 - Mar 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Leading enterprise architecture and technology strategy services team supporting: - Strategic customer engagements with Fortune 500 companies - Key industry business units (banking, discrete and service industries) - EA curriculum development developed and rolled out to hundreds of consultants and partners - Partner Enablement on technology innovation areas - Design and delivery of proof of concept projects to accelerate execution and adoption of cross-product architecture innovations

    • Head of Product Architecture and Technology Strategy Programs
      Feb 2012 - Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Leading a multidisciplinary team with focus on: - Delivering Intellectual property mgmt solution and process framework to global development units - PoC of InnerSource as an accelerator to product development cycles - Definition and validation of cross-product qualities for multiple products in technology stack (DataServices, HANA and others) - Design and delivery of proof of concept services to accelerate execution and adoption of architecture innovations in the development organization (UI5, DataServices and others) - Innovative technology projects around SAP product experience

  • Technical Sales Manager at Zweigle gmbh
    Sep 1995 - Jul 1998 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Developed International Technical Channel Support for 30+ Channel Partners worldwide Extensive travel and business experience. Responsible for the global go to market state of the art Visualization Software System as well as multiple quality control equipment for textile mills.