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 in 1969) is responsible for the banking and insurance sectors as well as international business, including near- and offshoring. He is also responsible for the central areas of corporate account management and marketing. He is also responsible on the Management Board for the adesso investments adesso insurance solutions GmbH, adesso banking solutions GmbH, adesso benefit solutions GmbH, Afida GmbH and Wepex GmbH. Lohweber has been CEO of adesso SE since the beginning of 2024.
Before joining the Executive Board of adesso SE 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 held various management positions.
Benedikt Bonnmann
Member of the Executive Board
Benedikt Bonnmann (born in 1985) is responsible for the automotive, manufacturing industry, retail and life science sectors as well as for the technology areas of data, analytics & AI, digital experience, Microsoft, SAP and Salesforce. He is also responsible on the Executive Board for the investments in adesso business consulting AG, adesso manufacturing industry solutions GmbH, adesso Lakes GmbH, material.one GmbH and Reachbird Solutions GmbH.
Before being appointed to the Executive Board, Benedikt Bonnmann, who holds a degree in business informatics and an MBA, had already been with adesso since 2017 and had been responsible for building up the Data, Analytics & AI division since 2019. Before joining adesso, he worked in 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 in 1976) is a member of the Executive Board and responsible for the central areas of Human Resources, Compliance, Corporate Administration, Corporate Buildings and Procurement. She is also responsible for the adesso investment alleato assekuranzmakler GmbH. Before being appointed to the Executive Board in 2023, the graduate economist was Head of Human Resources at adesso since 2011.
Michael Knopp
Member of the Executive Board
Michael Knopp (born in 1966) is a member of the Executive Board of adesso SE and responsible for the central areas of finance, investor relations and mergers & acquisitions. He is also responsible for the investment in adesso ventures GmbH. Michael Knopp has many years of in-depth expertise in corporate finance and information technology. The business graduate spent many years as a member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the listed company SUSS MicroTec SE and subsequently at Materna Information & Communications SE.
Before being appointed to the Executive Board of adesso SE 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 in 1965) is responsible for operations in the Cross Industries, Public Administration, Healthcare, Energy, Lottery and Sports sectors, as well as for Cloud & Operations. He is also responsible for the central Legal and Group IT departments. He is also responsible for the adesso investments adesso as a service GmbH, adesso health solutions GmbH, 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 for CompuGroup Medical Deutschland, where he most recently held the position of Area Vice President Telematics & AddOn, managing various business areas.
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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