Markus Vaas

Vice President Digital Sales Excellence & AI at KSB SE & Co. KGaA

Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region

About

All the way from strategy and high abstraction down into the irresistible rabbit holes and back up again. In digital transformation, in technical sales and sales excellence, in water resources, and in fluid mechanics.

Experience

  • KSB Company (6 yrs 5 mos)
    • Vice President Digital Sales Excellence & AI
      Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      -Raising our global sales efficiency through processes, tools, automation, and artificial intelligence. -Pursuing our group strategic pillar "Global Fluid-handling Know-how Champion"

    • Manager Global Know-How & KSB Experience
      Oct 2023 - Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Helping KSB to deliver a know-how-based brand experience and become the global fluid handling know-how champion

    • Outside Sales Representative
      Mar 2020 - Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Area sales rep pumps, valves, service & digitalization for customers with industry, water, and wastewater applications in northern and western Baden-Württemberg.

  • Senior Consultant, Project Leader iTWO/YTWO at RIB COE Europe GmbH
    Jun 2017 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Project management, change management, pre- and post-sales consulting, implementation and training of 5D BIM digital construction processes using iTWO4.0 platform technology and the YTWO industrialized supply chain ecosystem, first at RIB's YTWO Formative startup, then with parent company RIB's consulting subsidiary RIB COE.

  • Project Engineer at BIT Ingenieure AG
    Mar 2015 - May 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Water Resources Management, Waste Water Management, Site Development requirements planning and supply concepts for water supply networks; planning and site super- vision for construction projects in water resources (water mains, booster stations, storage tanks, treatment plants, wells, well rehabilitation); site development for residential areas; HOAI service phases 1 – 9, preliminary studies, engineering contract proposals, project presentations for committees and panels

  • Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / University of Karlsruhe (TH)
    Oct 2010 - Feb 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    lecturer/assistant lecturer for the courses Hydromechanics, Open Channel Hydraulics, Enginee- ring Hydraulics (incl. pumps and pump dimensioning), Environmental Fluid Mechanics in the civil engineering B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs at KIT; supervision of term papers and final theses research on jet-induced mixing processes (ADV, LIF, Stereo-PIV laboratory measurements, com- parison with numerical simulations) contract research on optimized mixing and operation of water storage tanks supervision of technicians and laboratory engineers, interns, and student assistants

  • Intern at Stadtwerke Karlsruhe GmbH
    Jul 2010 - Sep 2010 · 3 mos

    modelling of propagation and dispersion processes in the drinking water network of Karlsruhe using pseudo-steady-state pipe network simulation (EPANET), planning and supervision of on- site turbidity measurements