Stefan Haverkock

CIO & IT Executive | Digital Business Transformation | Board & Supervisory Board | Scale-Up to Enterprise

Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area

About

Companies undergoing transformation never fail for lack of technology. They fail, because no one is connecting IT, strategy and people. As a CIO or Board Advisor, that is my place. I am a globally operating CIO with over 25 years of experience in business transformation, IT reorganization, and digital leadership across manufacturing, distribution, and logistic services. I help organizations unlock digital potential, drive growth through customer centricity, and strengthen governance around technology and security. My roles have ensured that IT consistently delivers measurable business value. I apply a holistic leadership approach, combining strategic technology vision with cultural transformation and people engagement. What I bring: - 3x Group CIOI or acting interim CIO in international organizations - SAP S/4HANA or ECC template build and rollouts: annual cost savings of 5% of revenue - Global IT Team Development: Building high-performing IT and cross-functional teams during transition - Organizational Change: Optimizing operating models, governance, and business–IT alignment - Transformation & Growth programs: Enabling customer-centric, data-driven, and scalable portfolios - Enterprise Platforms & AI: SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, MS Azure, Google Cloud and AWS. - Strategy & Delivery: Board-level capability to shape and execute digital transformation. Who I work with: As a Board Member, Supervisory Board Member or strategic advisor I support growing companies in building scalable IT structures, digital foundations and efficient processes. As a fractional, interim or permanent CIO I take on immediate operational C-level responsiblity during transformation, programmes or M&A transactions. Employed or self-employed, your choice. Having lived and worked in Germany and the United States, I bring deep international experience from Europe, Turkey, Russia, India, and China – successfully navigating diverse cultural and business environments. My stance: CLARITY ON DEMAND. IMPACT BY DESIGN.

Experience

  • Chief Information Officer (Interim or Perm) at Self-employed
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    I am available temporary, permanent or fractional (precisely-time).

  • CxO Advisory at Hacker School
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    Hacker School is empowering youth (11-18) to learn programming through fun, low barrier courses for equal digital opportunity I support pro bono in my role as external advisory the... - organizational development of the NGO (from start-up to scale-up) - new stakeholder oriented data and process platform based on a standard CRM suite, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, supplemented by AI workflows and best-in-class IT services

  • Director IT & Digital at HOYER Group
    Aug 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    HOYER is a world market leader for comprehensive logistics solutions relating to handling and transporting liquid products for the foodstuffs, gas, mineral oil and chemical industries. We bring goods safely to their destinations – in tank containers, road tankers and IBCs – by road, rail and sea. in my role as Director IT & Digital: - driving global IT & Digital responsibility - developing digital strategy and transformation of global operating model to reduce time-to-market duration and improving business-IT relation - supporting a large divestiture program and cloud first strategy - developing and implementing a supportive IT governance framework providing Enterprise Architecture Management, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) and PMO (Program Management Office)

  • Auszeit / Sabbatical at Family and Friends
    Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 · 10 mos

  • Brenntag (6 yrs 2 mos)
    • VP IT Corporate, EMEA & APAC
      Jan 2019 - Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Brenntag is the leading chemical commodities and specialties distribution company. In my roles as Vice President IT and VP IT EMEA I was.... - leading the APAC, EMEA and corporate IT (strategy, governance, architecture, demand & portfolio management, IT operations, service & support) - building the future agile global operating model based on a multilayered data & application architecture and IT governance incl. the required academy and change management programs (DIDEX program) - establishing the global Information Security team lead by a newly recruited CISO, fast-track implementing world class security tools and policies creating immediate effect - executing the IT and business transformation of Brenntag to frontrun the digital business strategy by initiating, developing and executing two major strategic programs - oneIT infrastructure modernization, Cloud-First, global service mgt. tool, one network - Corporate and EMEA wide ERP platform consolidation - delivering business value with growth opportunities and cost savings by consolidating the Brenntag Connect platform (global customer facing web presence) and CRM systems in EMEA and APAC

    • VP IT EMEA
      Sep 2016 - Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos