Moritz Schulze

Vice President

Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

About

With 15 years driving innovation and growth, I deliver impactful, sustainable customer‑centric solutions. As an engineer with highest distinction and proactive leader, I shape ideas and turn them into measurable results, align high‑performance teams and the organization around shared goals, and cultivate authenticity, adaptability, and continuous improvement. I bring clarity to complex situations through strong communication and visualization skills and have led teams across EMEA and Asia with a proven record of achieving high‑value outcomes in demanding environments. >14 years leadership experience >15 years research and development >14 years software development knowledge >7 years business/revenue responsibility Head of Business Unit + Technical understanding across various disciplines + Sales experience + Transformational Leadership

Experience

  • Vice President R&D - Head of Business Unit Autonomous Safety at SICK
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Enabling industry to cope with demands of the world’s growing population and costs by increasing productivity, protecting employees and reducing tedious tasks through creating safe autonomy, e.g. for AGV/AMR & Cobots applications and for many more. Working with full customer focus and brilliant people on market leading, high performance sensor offerings (LiDAR/ToF/RADAR,…), algorithms, edge computing, systems and AI-based data analytics, norm-compliant with safety, security and more. Achievements: - Launching several new products, e.g. world-wide first safe ToF 3D camera - Revenue increase +40% 1st year - Aligning portfolio, sales and operations to reach targets - Offering digital products/services - Pushing pace of innovation - Embracing cultural change, agility and networks

  • Head of Department Structural Dynamics and Fluid Dynamics | Business Developer at IABG
    Feb 2019 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Committing to all business aspects with full customer focus. Serving customers with innovation and product development in the public/defense and industrial sectors by offering excellent services for high performance computing, software development, data analytics, virtual modeling. Inspiring 2 teams with >10 experts. Achievements: - Increasing number of customers - +400% profit 3rd year - Selling services, +170% order entry - Executing >15 customer projects in time, with high margins - Leading cultural and structural change within the organization - Making automated driving safer with ISO 21448 SOTIF /AI object detection - Coordinating navy and rail offering firm wide

  • Calculation Engineer | CAE India Coordinator at Knorr-Bremse
    Mar 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Providing sustainable mobility to people by solving critical shock & vibration issues and reducing noise of rail brake system components and HVACs. Guaranteeing safe, norm-compliant & reliable field operation. Coordinating 7 people development team in India. Achievements: - Developing >10 components with virtual methods - Saving millions worth of orders with troubleshooting - Reducing compressor noise to meet norm targets - Improving analysis accuracy to reduce component weight by >5% - Expanding India workforce by +2 employees and increasing effectiveness

  • Research Assistant | Lecturer at Technische Universität München
    Jan 2012 - Feb 2017 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Expanding space access for mankind by improving combustion stability of cryogenic hydrogen rocket engines with physic modeling, software development (FEM, CFD), computation, big data analysis, lab work. Method industrialization in inter-/national projects. Achievements: - Flourishing in scientific research - Authoring >40 publications - Fundraising >2 Mio. € - Setting-up and running rocket lab with more and more projects - Executing 6 quality projects in time & budget - Lecturing >4000 students in thermodynamics, heat transfer and computational science - Dissertation with summa cum laude