Michael K.

Senior Data Center Technology Sales & People Manager

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Proven manager and leader focusing on results, customer strategy, and people development. Extremely multifaceted data center background as career went from academia and research assignments via small start-up consulting business to large company, from algorithms and application optimization via HPC and cloud software tools engineering and customer workloads to hardware development and sales. Been in R&D and engineering for more than a decade, in technical, commercial, and sales leadership roles since 2010, continuously growing with opportunities and challenges.

Experience

  • Vice President Commercials at Q.ANT GmbH
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Chief Revenue Officer at co-mind.ai
    Jun 2025 - Apr 2026 · 11 mos

  • Director HPC&AI Market Development EMEA at OPENCHIP & SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES
    Oct 2024 - May 2025 · 8 mos

  • CxO and Co-Founder at pre-launch start-up, details to be announced
    Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 · 9 mos

    Bringing to (entrepreneurial) life a new business, driving the various activities to get the company from idea to launch readiness to ...

  • Intel Corporation (Full-time · 20 yrs 2 mos)
    • Director Data Center and Artificial Intelligence Sales Germany
      Jul 2019 - Oct 2023 · 4 yrs 4 mos

      Leading the commercial & engineering team responsible for sales out through local OEMs & resellers in Germany focusing on enterprise, HPC and local cloud partners

    • Sales Management Positions
      Oct 2015 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Sales management positions at Intel Sales and Marketing Group with responsibility for Data Center product sales in either the Central European Region or across EMEA. Sales Development Manager EMEA for Data Center Systems through ecosystem partners. Regional Business Development Manager Data Center Sales Central Europe & Russia. Account Manager for Local Data Center OEMs in Germany.

    • Technical Sales positions
      Jan 2010 - Sep 2015 · 5 yrs 9 mos

      Technical sales positions with responsibility for data center product designs with partners. Technical Account Manager Servers & HPC for large Japanese/European OEM. Solution Architect HPC for large Japanese/European OEM. Enterprise Technology Specialist for HPC, Life Sciences and Financial Services Industries