At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Germany based CFO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Joseph Lichtenberger
Chief Financial Officer of IDnow
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About IDnow: IDnow is a technology startup that provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity Verification-as-a-Service platform.
Jeno Schadrack
CFO of NavVis
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About NavVis: NavVis is a global provider of indoor spatial intelligence solutions for enterprises.
Kathleen Ende
CFO of OpenSynergy
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About OpenSynergy: OpenSynergy provides embedded software products for the next generation of vehicles.
Catherine Dietrich
Chief Financial Officer of Allianz X
Catherine is the CFO at Allianz X. She began her career at Allianz in 2004 when she joined Allianz Capital Partners to help build up and eventually lead the Investment Controlling function. Prior to that, she worked in Private Equity as an Investment Manager for a small family office. She came to work in Munich in 2001 for Robertson Stephens International, a San Francisco based, technology focused investment bank. Catherine began her career in financial services 18 years ago in London in the German Corporate Finance team for HSBC Investment Bank after having received a First Class Honours Degree in International Business Management and German from the University of Bath.
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About Allianz X: Allianz X is the digital investment unit of the Allianz Group that invests in digital growth companies related to insurance.
Stephan Dorfmeister
CFO of omni:us
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About omni:us: omni:us offers a suite of insurance-focused AI tools developed for claims management.
Moritz ten Eikelder
Co-Founder & CFO of Layer
Moritz ten Eikelder is the Co-Founder and CFO of Layer.
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About Layer, optionspace: We are building the connective tissue for spreadsheets.
Maximilian Hasler
COO/CFO & Co-Founder of KONUX
Maximilian Hasler is the Vice President of Finance. He can draw on many years of work experience in strategy and technology consulting for large corporations and startups. He studied Information Systems at Technische Universität München and Technology Management at the Munich Center for Digital Technology and Management.
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About KONUX: Konux is a software platform that uses smart sensors and machine learning to efficiently maintain railway switches.
Andreas Burike
CFO of AnyDesk
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About AnyDesk: AnyDesk is a remote desktop application.
Rene Meyer
CFO of Tracks
René accumulated 12+ years in senior and executive finance positions within the energy and logistics industry. He has a vast experience in public & institutional fundraising, financial & liquidity management, HR & organizational structure, development as well as business planning. Besides a degree in economics, René holds an MBA in Innovation, Enterprise and the Circular Economy from the University of Bradford School of Management.
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About Tracks: We pioneer the road freight industry’s transformation towards greater efficiency, supply chain transparency and environmental sustainability
Eike-Christian Frerichs
Managing Director & CFO of Cloudflight.io
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About Cloudflight.io: Cloudflight.io is the new generation of digital service providers.
Klaus Leitner
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Q_PERIOR
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About Q_PERIOR: Q_PERIOR is an internationally active consulting company at the interface of business and IT.
Oliver Dehning
Co-Founder and CFO of Hornetsecurity
Engineering graduate in communications technology, MBA, scientific research in the field of pattern recognition; since 1998, in various management positions at IT companies and in the field of optical technologies. Head of the “Security Competence Group” at eco, Association of the German Internet Industry and head of the working group “Cloud Security” at TeleTrusT – Federal German Association for IT security; Managing Director and Partner at Hornetsecurity GmbH.
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About Hornetsecurity: Hornetsecurity offers you comprehensive, integrated managed E-Mail security services.
Thomas Stark
CFO of Cancom
Thomas Stark was born in 1971 and is a German national. After his study of business engineering and two years as a business process analyst at Accenture, Thomas joined CANCOM group in the year 2000. In the following years he held several positions before he was made director purchasing of CANCOM SE in 2003 and director finance of CANCOM SE in 2006. Since 2012 respectively 2014 he is Executive Vice President and CFO of German TecDAX listed CANCOM SE, one of the top 30 German high tech companies. From 2014 to 2016, Thomas was CFO of Pironet AG, member of CANCOM group. As member of the Management Board of CANCOM SE he is responsible for topics concerning the fields of Environment, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG). Other mandates held: Member of the Supervisory Board of AL-KO Kober SE, Kötz (unlistet; no Group mandate); Member of the Supervisory Board of Pironet AG, Köln (unlisted; Group mandate)
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About Cancom: The Cancom group is a provider of IT infrastructure and IT services.
Oliver Schmitz
Chief Financial Officer of LucaNet
Oliver is founder & CFO of LucaNet.
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About LucaNet: Software and consulting for consolidation, planning, reporting and analysis
Bjoern Decard
CFO of Smart Mobile Labs
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About Smart Mobile Labs: Smart Mobile Labs is a real-time live video orchestration software for venues, public safety & connected cars.
Michael Morsch
CFO of Quantumrock
Michael has more than ten years’ experience as a CFO in different technology-driven financial sector companies. As a Certified Executive Director he has worked for a European licensed financial institution and served as CFO for subsidiaries of stock listed companies such as SAP AG and Net1 UEPS Technologies. Michael is internationally focused and results orientated. He cofounded the payment service provider Masterpayment AG and real estate developer Sinus Cultor. Michael holds a Degree in Business from the University of Würzburg.
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About Quantumrock: Adaptive Investment Programs for the Asset Management Industry.
Michael Sauer
CFO of RIB Software
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About RIB Software: RIB Software provides software solutions, which support the life cycle of a construction projects.
Ellen Scheithauer
Group CFO of Bonial.com
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About Bonial.com: Bonial.com operates the location based shopping platform worldwide, connecting shoppers with their favorite local stores and brands.
Bernhard Seidl
Chief Financial Officer of Wirelane
Bernhard Seidl is the chief financial officer of Wirelane. Seidl studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and holds an MBA from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
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About Wirelane: Wirelane is a full service provider in the field of electric mobility.
Ingmar Dilssner
CFO of E-shelter
Ingmar Dilßner has comprehensive experience in the data center sector as a consultant for large banks. Since 2008, he has been responsible for financing, equity raising and development activities at e-shelter. Since 2015, he has also been taking care of e-shelter’s investment- and M&A-activities. In 2017 he assumed the overall responsibility for all finance-related activities as Chief Financial Officer.
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About E-shelter: E-shelter develops and runs high availability data centers.
Marcin Chelinski
Chief Financial Officer of Veronym
Marcin approaches his duties with utmost precision and accuracy thanks to many years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. This link to medicine made taking responsibility for his own decisions one of his greatest professional strengths. Over the last 15 years, he gained extensive practical knowledge in the area of finances and accounting, as he held responsibility for conducting financial operations of a leading pharmacy chain in Poland. He oversaw the accounting team, as well as the financial control and IT departments. Additonally, he has exprience in managing loans, insurance and cost analysis in relation to the budget. As he says himself, he maintains “focus on details” without losing the “big picture,” which has allowed him to implement innovative strategies with good financial results many times in his career. His competences are confirmed not only with practical experience, but also with certificates from the financial and economic sectors.
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About Veronym: Veronym is a cloud security service provider (CSSP).
Christoph Steffens
Chief Financial Officer of Strato AG
Born 1966, has been CFO of STRATO AG and Cronon AG since 2007. Previously, the economist held several commercial management positions at mobilcom / freenet AG, most recently as Managing Director of Mobilfunktochter. Prior to this, he worked as a Corporate Finance consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and in the international business development of Deutsche Telekom AG.
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About Strato AG: Strato AG is a web hosting that provide solution to build and host a website.
Markus Hennig
CFO of Ocedo
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About Ocedo: Ocedo is the smart way to connect distributed organizations. Ocedo enables IT to easily manage firewall, switching, and Wifi from the cloud.
Dirk Schilling
Chief Financial Officer of Serrala
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About Serrala: Serrala is an international provider of solutions for inbound and outbound payments and related finance processes.
Robert Goldmann
CFO of p≡p Security
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About p≡p Security: p≡p Makes your e-mail secure and private by default.
Tobias Auferoth
Managing Director / CFO of Upvest
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About Upvest, Upvest: Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API.
Matthias Danner
Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Alyne
Matthias is the Chief Financial Officer at Alyne and is also responsible for maintaining the high quality of Alyne’s services and content. In addition, he leads the development of various components critical to the Alyne platform. Prior to founding Alyne, Matthias consistently delivered complex IT programs to European banking clients while working for Accenture and later Deloitte & Touche. Colleagues and clients alike depend on and appreciate his deep analytical thought process and high professional standard and quality he sets for himself and his teams he led as a Senior Manager. Before his consulting career, Matthias worked as a software developer. He holds a Diploma in computer sciences from the University of Applied Sciences Munich.
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About Alyne: Alyne is a Munich based B2B RegTech offering organisations risk insight capabilities through a software as a service.
Hiram Bingham
Founder and CFO of Voycer
Hiram has many years of experience in the private equity market and has been an investor and manager for international start-ups in IT, e-commerce and digital media for over 15 years. As Co-Founder he is responsible for Finance and Operations.
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About Voycer: Voycer is a full-service provider in the field of customer engagement platforms.
Silke Marby
Chief Financial Officer of Empolis
Silke Marby studied business administration in Bielefeld. She began her career in 1999 in the corporate Controlling department of itelligence AG in Bielefeld. In July 2009, Marby moved to Empolis GmbH to build up controlling there following the separation from the Bertelsmann Group. Initially, she held the position of Senior Manager Controlling, and one year later, she was appointed Director Controlling. Since July 2016, Marby has held the position of Chief Financial Officer, reporting to the CEO. She controls and optimizes all essential business processes of Empolis GmbH. Marby speaks English and German.
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About Empolis: Empolis develops big data business intelligence and analytics software.
Jochen Ruetz
CFO and Managing Director of GFT Technologies
Jochen Ruetz served as a board member at GFT Technologies AG from 2003 to 2015 and has been a member of the administrative board at GFT Technologies SE since August 2015. He is responsible for finance, IT, human resources, legal, purchasing, audit, investor relations and mergers & acquisitions.
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About GFT Technologies: GFT develops, implements and maintains customized IT solutions and enables financial institutes to quickly and securely.
Eric Bader
CFO of ExOne
Mr. Bader has served as Chief Financial Officer for their European operations since April 2015, bringing more than 10 years of experience in strategic planning and implementation. Prior to ExOne he has served in various roles including Financial Controller, China General Manager, Europe General Manager, Business Unit Director, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director. Mr. Bader has spent the majority of his professional career within an international environment, ranging from Multi-Site-Responsibilities in Asia and Europe, management of sales staff & representatives in Europe, reporting into US headquarters to living abroad in Malaysia and China.
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About ExOne: ExOne is a machine industry company specializing in metal and binder jet 3D printing technology.
Silke Frauenhoffer
Chief Financial Officer of Amorph Systems
Silke Frauenhoffer is the financial expert of the company with a Master’s degree of Business Administration and large experience from her former employments e.g. within bank institutes, venture capital corporations and as financial administrator of IT companies.
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About Amorph Systems: Amorph Systems provides advanced IT solutions.
Rene Kantehm
CFO of VMRay
Rene Kantehm started his professional career in 2002 as an analyst in corporate finance at IKB Deutsche Industriebank. He later lead the Investor Relations department. In 2008, he moved to Westdeutsche Landesbank as Director Capital Markets. From 2010, as CFO and Managing Partner, he builds up MIMOon, an IT company in Duisburg financed by venture capital and sold the start-up to the British company CommAgility in 2015. From 2016 to 2019, Rene Kantehm was the CFO at Wagner Group, where he expands the areas of finance, controlling and IT infrastructure for the entire group. Since 2019, he is CFO at VMRay in Bochum, an international software company, focused on cybersecurity. Rene studied business administration, is a certified credit analyst and an MBA holder with the main focus on controlling and financing. He is also founder of Duermeister Individual (2015, Luxury watches) and Unternehmerfreunde (2018, advisory board service).
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About VMRay: VMRay Analyzer is a breakthrough solution for dynamic analysis of advanced threats, including zero day and targeted attacks.
Jörg Sellmann
Chief Financial Officer of Brabbler
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About Brabbler: Brabbler develops IT solutions for modern and secure communication.
Rainer Ohst
CFO of Architrave
Rainer Ohst is an expert in financial management with an international track record and a wealth of experience. The business and finance manager, originally from Wolfsburg, worked for more than 13 years with the European aviation group Airbus in Bristol and Toulouse.
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About Architrave: Architrave is to make the real estate industry more transparent and efficient by introducing genuinely digital processes.
Michael Moser
CFO & Deputy CEO of Enerjisa
Dr. Michael Moser is the CFO and Deputy CEO at Enerjisa.
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About Enerjisa: Enerjisa was established as an autoproducer company in 1996, to meet the electricity requirements of Sabancı companies.
Michael Knopp
Chief Financial Officer of Materna
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About Materna: Materna is one of the leading IT consulting companies in the information and communications technology sector.
Barbara Alexandropoulou
Chief Financial Officer (Partner) of DEVnet
Barbara Alexandropoulou is the Chief Financial Officer of DEVnet GmbH
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About DEVnet: Your expert in technology driven business transformation
Barbara Alexandropoulou
Chief Financial Officer (Partner) of DEVnet
Barbara Alexandropoulou is the Chief Financial Officer of DEVnet GmbH
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About DEVnet: Your expert in technology driven business transformation
Julia Baumbach
CFO of LAWIO
Julia completed her Bachelor and Master in Mathematics at the TU Berlin and supervises the figures and finances at LAWIO. In addition to her affinity for numbers, Julia also supports LAWIO in IT.
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About LAWIO: LAWIO offers a wide range of information about tenancy law in Germany.
Walter Olthoff
CFO of DFKI
Walter Olthoff is CFO at DFKI
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About DFKI: DFKI researched innovative software technologies and is working on solutions for the knowledge society .
Antje Svensson
Chief Financial Officer of 2e Systems
Antje Svensson serves as Chief Financial Officer of 2e Systems GmbH.
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About 2e Systems: 2e Systems is a versatile software development company specializing in web, mobile and communications solutions for the airline industry.
Markus Haggenmiller
CFO & Co-Founder of Bilendo
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About Bilendo: Most companies waste resources to collect and manage their receivables. Bilendo helps to secure these resources and to make good decisions.
Daniel Ramsch
CFO & Co-Founder of Robin Data
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About Robin Data: Robin Data is a smart data protection management platform.
Bianka Grube
CFO of LEITWERK
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About LEITWERK: LEITWERK manages IT system integrations and IT cloud solutions.
Sven Huschke
CFO of Cortado Holding
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About : Cortado Holding AG is focused on enterprise mobility, printing, virtualization and BYOD.
Johannes Koch
CFO of Nerd Factory
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About Nerd Factory: Recruting IT- Profeessionals for StartUps; optimize processes with machine learning / Big Data
Hermann Maurer
CFO & Co-Founder of APPbyYOU
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About APPbyYOU: First worldwide ALLinONE Messenger (private app, private chat, private cloud)
Marcela Contreras de Mann
Chief Financial Officer of Link Protect
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About Link Protect: Link Protect is an information technology based in Bayern, Germany.
Marcela Contreras de Mann
Chief Financial Officer of Link Protect
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About Link Protect: Link Protect is an information technology based in Bayern, Germany.