The people behind Evolutionizer

Bernd is a specialist in software development and enterprise architectures in the Microsoft technology stack. For more than 25 years, the products of the US-based tech company have been his area of expertise. At Evolutionizer, Bernd is responsible for enterprise architecture. In his role as Product Owner Backend, he coordinates the interaction between the various software levels of our product. In his role as enterprise architect, he leads our architectural guild to balance modern software design with the performance and reliability we need to fulfil our ambitious growth targets, He is also responsible for the management requirements of the platform layer. Together with the product management team, he shapes the future development of the Enterprise Strategy Suite.

Martin gained many years of leadership experience in industry at Sandoz and  Novartis, as well as in strategy consulting. He was a Senior Partner and member of the global management team at Roland Berger and a Partner at Management Engineers. His focus is on performance improvement, operations, and implementation of elaborated concepts in global multi-national enterprises and the typical Mittelstand. At Evolutionizer, he uses this knowledge of result-oriented transformations to optimize the collaboration and integration of market-facing and product development units, particularly with regards to the digital support of these processes. On the customer side, he leverages his experience to win new customers for the journey of digital transformation.

Lucy has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years. As a Product Owner, she is responsible for the entire ESS front-end. As a Senior Expert in product management, she plays a key role in developing a clear product strategy. She also has extensive experience in project and portfolio management across various industries. At Evolutionizer, Lucy is passionate about driving the front-end strategy and works closely with colleagues from product hub and the customer success team to develop well-structured and powerful front-end solutions that are efficient and easy to configure. Her particular focus is on improving the user experience through excellent UX/UI design, ensuring that our solutions are not only functional, but also intuitive and engaging.

Kürsat is an expert in the digitalization of strategic management processes with a background in software development. While his initial focus was on strategy development, in recent years he has increasingly concentrated on strategy implementation and has a wealth of experience in the digitalization of strategic management processes. As Head of Sales, together with his team, he has been using his knowledge for more than 20 years to successfully acquire new customers and partners, and to further develop existing ones as a Key Account Manager in line with our end-to-end philosophy.

Jelle is responsible for ensuring the smooth running and efficiency of our technical operation processes. His main focus is on optimizing and maintaining the availability of our cloud infrastructure, implementing best-practice DevOps strategies, and ensuring compliance with the highest security standards. In his role, he fosters close collaboration between product development, quality assurance, and customer success teams. As an experienced software engineer with strong inter-personal skills, Jelle is the primary point of contact for customers' technical inquiries, providing advice on numerous technical security topics. With his innovative spirit and keen instinct for new technologies, he keeps Evolutionizer up-to-date in the area of DevOps and, as a member of the architectural guild, guarantees that DevOps aspects are given appropriate consideration.

Frank has more than 30 years of experience in top management positions in the international automotive industry and is a proven expert in strategy and business development. As CFO and Head of Corporate Strategy, he was a member of the Board of Management of  Mercedes-Benz AG. Before that he was member of the divisional board and CFO of Daimler Trucks. In his last position he was a board member of Lucid Motors (Nasdaq 100). Frank is an investor and advisor of serveral start-ups. This unique mix of experience he uses as the CEO of Evolutionizer.

Michael is in charge of our administration. He is responsible for the proper commercial handling of our business relationship with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. He also manages internal controlling and IT. With over 20 years experience in similar positions, he is perfectly qualified for this role.

Volker was divisional CFO in the electronics industry (Philips) before building up extensive expertise in the development and implementation of product, market, and functional strategies, including innovation strategies, as a long-time partner in strategy consulting (PwC, Management Engineers).  A particular focus of his work was the development of digital support for business transformation processes. At Evolutionizer, Volker and his team take care of the content development of our product. He also works closely with his colleagues from sales and customer success to develop value-adding solutions for our customers' challenges.

After graduating in economics with a focus on data analytics, Ulrike worked as a manager at PwC Consulting with a focus on data intelligence and data visualization. Her experience in IT implementation consulting, her education, and her strong analytical skills enable her to understand the content/domain requirements of our product and translate them into technical requirements. Working together with the product hub and product development to produce standard configurations as well as new technical solutions.T In her role as Head of our Customer Success Configuration teams, she is also responsible for the quality and knowledge levels of our implementation teams.

Jonas leads the Evo product hub, which acts as the central interface between customer success and product development. After studying industrial engineering, he joined Evolutionizer and gained valuable experience working closely with customers and developers in boths areas, which he uses to develop the standard configurations that serve as the basis for customized customer solutions. As a member of the product management team, he also plays a key role in the strategic and operational direction of product development.