Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
Management Consulting / Business Angel - Business Development and IT Organization - IT Consulting in the Library Market - Investments in IT start-ups
Managing Director with focus on Sales, Marketing and Business Development LMSCloud provides a cloud based Library Management Solution for Public Libraries in DACH, based on the Open-Source Software Koha. LMSCloud is a joined-venture with ekz.bibliothekssysteme GmbH in Reutlingen.
Managing Director of OCLC Germany/Switzerland and Member of the OCLC EMEA Board of Directors - Managing OCLC second largest legal entity after the US with more than 4200 customers in all library segments - Responsible for the library business in the German speaking market with > € 14m revenues and 120 staff Additional roles within OCLC during that period: - EMEA Director of Technology for 3 years - Responsible for all software development activities of EMEA in UK, Netherlands and Germany - Director of Global Product Management for 4 years for all OCLC Management Systems worldwide with > $ 20 million revenues responsibility - Business Development work for EMEA to prepare tier 2/3 markets and work with the EMEA sales team to develop our distributor partnerships - Active participation in OCLC’s M&A business with a number of acquisitions in EMEA - Member of various global groups within OCLC, e.g. Systems Governance Group for Security and Privacy questions related to OCLC’s Cloud infrastructure
see OCLC GmbH - OCLC PICA GmbH became OCLC GmbH after OCLC acquired all shares of PICA in the Netherlands.