As a service provider adesso depends on a management that knows its customers. Open doors are equally characteristic for adesso as the detailed insight of the management into every single project. This requires an optimal cooperation of the management, the experienced project managers as well as of the members of staff. The management sticks to the rule: distinct competencies – shared responsibilities. adesso, thus, guarantees a sound economic and strategic development of the company.
Management
Responsible for the economic and strategic corporate development
Open doors and clear responsibilities
Joint responsibility for sustainable success
Mark Lohweber
Chairman of the Executive Board
Mark Lohweber (born 1969) is a member of the Management Board and is responsible for the operational business in the Banking and Insurance sectors as well as international business, including nearshoring and offshoring. As a member of the Executive Board, he is also in charge of the central areas of Corporate Account Management and Marketing. On the Executive Board, he is furthermore responsible for the adesso subsidiaries adesso insurance solutions GmbH, adesso banking solutions GmbH, Afida GmbH and Wepex GmbH.
Lohweber has been Chairman of the Executive Board of adesso SE since the beginning of 2024. Before being appointed to the Executive Board in 2023, the trained banker and law graduate was CEO of CoCoNet AG, a leading European FinTech company. Mark Lohweber previously worked for adesso SE from 2007 to 2021, where he was responsible for various management positions.
Benedikt Bonnmann
Member of the Executive Board
Benedikt Bonnmann (born 1985) is a member of the Executive Board and is responsible for the operating business of the Automotive, Manufacturing Industry, Retail and Life Science sectors as well as for the Data, Analytics & AI, Digital Experience, Microsoft and Salesforce technology areas. On the Executive Board, he is as well responsible for the investments adesso manufacturing industry solutions GmbH, adesso Lakes GmbH, material.one GmbH and Reachbird Solutions GmbH.
Before the business informatics graduate and MBA was appointed to the Executive Board in 2024, Benedikt Bonnmann had already been working for adesso since 2017 and had been responsible for building up the Data, Analytics & AI division since 2019. Before joining adesso, he was active in the field of business intelligence, data and AI consulting with a focus on SAP and founded his own consulting firm in 2010, which became part of the adesso Group in 2017.
Kristina Gerwert
Member of the Executive Board
Kristina Gerwert (born 1976) is a member of the Executive Board and is responsible for the central areas of Human Resources, Compliance, Corporate Administration, Corporate Buildings and Procurement. She is also in charge of the adesso subsidiary alleato assekuranzmakler GmbH. Before being appointed to the Executive Board in 2023, the economics graduate had been Head of Human Resources at adesso since 2011.
Michael Knopp
Member of the Executive Board
Michael Knopp (born 1966) has been a member of the Executive Board of adesso SE since 15 January 2025 and will gradually take over the responsibilities of Jörg Schroeder, who will leave the Executive Board on 30 April 2025. As a member of the Executive Board of adesso SE, Knopp will be responsible for the central areas of Finance, Investor Relations and Mergers & Acquisitions. He will also assume responsibility for the subsidiary adesso ventures GmbH.
Michael Knopp has many years of in-depth expertise in both corporate finance and information technology. He holds a degree in business administration and was for many years a member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the listed company SUSS MicroTec SE and subsequently of Materna Information & Communications SE. Before being appointed to the adesso SE Executive Board in January 2025, he was Managing Director and CFO of the IT service provider akquinet Holding GmbH.
Andreas Prenneis
Member of the Executive Board
Andreas Prenneis (born 1965) is a member of the Management Board and is responsible for the operating business in the Cross Industries, Public Administration, Healthcare, Energy, Lottery and Sports sectors as well as for SAP and Cloud & Operations. As a member of the Executive Board, he is also in charge of the central Legal and Group IT divisions. Moreover, he is responsible for the adesso subsidiaries adesso as a service GmbH, adesso health solutions GmbH, adesso mobile solutions GmbH, adesso business consulting AG, KIWI Consulting EDV-Beratung GmbH, medgineering GmbH and percision services GmbH.
Before being appointed to the Executive Board of adesso SE in 2015, he worked at CompuGroup Medical Deutschland, where he most recently headed various business areas as Area Vice President Telematics & AddOn.
Volker Gruhn
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Prof Volker Gruhn, born 1963, co-founded adesso SE (formerly adesso AG) in 1997 and is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He holds the Chair of Software Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Prof. Dr. Volker Gruhn has been a member of the DAK Health digitisation advisory board since 2017 and a member of the university council of Leipzig University since 1 March 2019. He is also a member of the board of curators of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering and a member of Bitkom’s Management Board.
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