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Harold van Waardenburg

Director Vertical Market Management at EPLAN

Harold van Waardenburg is a highly experienced director with extensive experience in the technology industry. He is currently the Director of Vertical Market Management at EPLAN, where he is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of go-to-market strategies. Prior to this, Harold held the position of Director of Go-to-Market Management at EPLAN and Director of Cloud Business. He has also served as the Managing Director and Country Manager of EPLAN Netherlands, where he was responsible for managing operations and driving growth. Before joining EPLAN, Harold worked at Medtronic as a Project Manager and Manager of Regulatory Affairs, and at Vitatron in various roles, including Manager of Tools Engineering and Senior Electronic Engineer. Harold has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry and is a highly sought-after speaker in online congresses.

Matthäus Hose

Division Manager at WEKA BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

Matthäus Hose is responsible for WEKA BUSINESS COMMUNICATION within the WEKA Group. WEKA BUSINESS COMMUNICATION includes the following GmbHs: WEKA FACHMEDIEN, WEKA INDUSTRIE MEDIEN, WEKA BUSINESS MEDIEN, fotocommunity.de, INFO-TECHNO and of course WEKA Media Publishing.

Matthäus Hose has been working as a manager in the media industry for many years and wrote articles for the "C64er" in his "early youth". He wrote his diploma thesis about the launch of PCgo!, which today belongs to WEKA Media Publishing, and has since never lost his enthusiasm for the digital, event and print formats of this media house.

Stefan Jesse

Group Co-CEO, AUVESY-MDT

Stefan Jesse studied Business Administration at the University of Mannheim and spent more than ten years in various top management positions at the leading IT system company Bechtle. Before that, he worked for a number of years as an IT and management consultant across various organizations and industries. At AUVESY-MDT, he is responsible for the Strategy, Commercial, Product, Tech, and M&A departments and is the Speaker of the Executive Board.

Dr. Jonas Kalb

Head of Product, AUVESY-MDT

Dr. Jonas Kalb recently joined AUVESY-MDT as the Head of Product where he acts as the voice of the customer to ensure the best fitting products are brought to market. He previously worked as a strategy consultant with Simon-Kucher & Company, where he developed customer centric commercial models for fast growing companies in the software and technology space. Jonas holds a PhD in Industrial Economics from the University of St Andrews (UK) and an MSc in Economics (Finance) from the University of Edinburgh.

Georg Seiß

Director of Customer Service, AUVESY-MDT

Georg Seiß has gained more than 10 years experience in automated production and production processes in automotive and over 4 years in building solutions for automated production. He holds a degree in Politics, Psychology and Philisophy from the University Koblenz-Landau. At AUVESY-MDT, he is focused on building a future and customer oriented customer service team in order to optimally meet future customer and market requirements.

Shreyas Pande

Customer Success Manager, AUVESY-MDT

As a Customer Success Manager, Shreyas is managing some of our Key Strategic Customers. His core intention is to establish and nurture a healthy business relationship with our special accounts & support them in strategically migrating into our subscription based business model. Previously, Shreyas was working as a Global Business Sales Manager at EPLAN and was responsilbe for the growth of their cloud based digital platform wherein he developed and implemented several global Go-to-Market strategies for their cloud based product portfolio. Shreyas is a Mechanical Engineer and has completed his MBA with focus in Sales, Marketing & Business development from Hof University in Germany. Shreyas brings in the right blend of techno-management know-how and is a firm believer of networking. For him his network is his net-worth.