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 Nordrhein-Westfalen based CFO’ operating in the Software 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.
Christian Illek
CFO of Deutsche Telekom
Christian P. Illek, born in 1964 in Düsseldorf, has taken up the post of Chief Human Resources Officer at Deutsche Telekom on April 1. Christian Illek’s previous position was Chairman of the Management Board at Microsoft Germany, a role in which he shaped flexible working time models for the company by getting rid of the strict obligation to work from the office. From April 2010 to September 2012, he was Director of Marketing at Telekom Deutschland GmbH. In this position he was responsible for all marketing activities for both consumers and business customers in Germany. He was also in charge of the Wholesale Center and the Value-Added Services Center, as well as international product development for Deutsche Telekom’s fixed-network, IPTV, convergent and business customer portfolio. Before being appointed as a member of the T-Home Board of Management (at the beginning of 2007) and Marketing Director at T-Mobile (in May 2009), Christian Illek held various managerial positions at Bain & Company and at Dell, in both Germany and in Switzerland. Christian P. Illek studied chemistry and business administration in Düsseldorf and Munich, beginning his career at the University of Munich in 1989.
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About Deutsche Telekom: Deutsche Telekom is a telecommunications company that offers a range of fixed-network services.
Daniel Kirch
CFO and Co-Founder of Taxy.io
Daniel is CFO & Co-Founder of Taxy.io where he leads any financial and strategic initiative. Before, he worked for a Venture Capital fund and carried out approx. 30 VC transactions in Europe and USA. The former management consultant has an academic background in mechanical engineering and business (RWTH Aachen University, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Tongji University) and finance (TU Munich).
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About Taxy.io: Taxy.io builds digital assistants for tax advisers to support their daily research and client advisory.
Thorsten Otte
CFO of StepStone
Thorsten joined StepStone in May 2013. As CFO he is responsible for all finance and legal activities in the group. Previously he held CFO positions in various companies and regions: for Siemens Financial Services in the Nordic Region, Hoist Group and Thomas Cook Group in the Netherlands and Western Europe. Thorsten holds a master degree in Economics from the Free University in Berlin.
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About StepStone: StepStone is a leading international provider of software and services for the human capital management sector.
Werner Brandt
CFO of RWE
Dr. Werner Brandt is a member of the Executive Board and Global Managing Board of SAP AG and is the chief financial officer (CFO). He is responsible for all corporate financial activities as well as administration of the company and has served in this function since joining SAP in February 2001 in these roles. In addition, Brandt was appointed chief human resources officer and labor relations director in July 2013. From 1999 to 2001, he was a member of the Executive Board and CFO of German-American healthcare company Fresenius Medical Care AG, where he also served as labor relations director. From 1992 to 1999, he was a member of the Management Board of Baxter Deutschland GmbH and vice president for European operations. In this capacity, he was responsible for Baxter’s financial operations in Europe. Brandt began his career at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Stuttgart. Brandt completed his doctorate in business administration at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1991, after studying business administration at the University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany, from 1976 to 1981. He is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; RWE AG, Essen, Germany; and QIAGEN N.V., Venlo, The Netherlands.
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About RWE: RWE is pan-European energy company.
Constantin Stammen
Chief Financial Officer of Veact
Constantin Stammen is a Chief Financial Officer at VEACT.
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About Veact: VEACT is developing applications, processes and products to improve sales success in the car trade market using data-based marketing.
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.