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About CANCOM

Making the transformation to a digital world a success

As a leading Hybrid IT Service Provider, CANCOM accompanies organizations into the digital future. We support our customers to simplify complex enterprise IT and increase their business success through the implementation of modern technology. In order to comprehensively meet the IT needs of companies, organizations, and the public sector, CANCOM delivers tailor-made IT end to end from a single source. 

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The CANCOM Group’s range of IT solutions includes consulting, implementation, services, and the operation of IT systems. Customers benefit from the extensive expertise as well as a holistic and innovative portfolio that covers the IT requirements that are necessary for a successful digital transformation. As a hybrid IT integrator and service provider, we provide an integrated range of services and solutions including business solutions and managed services, such as cloud computing, analytics, enterprise mobility, IT security, hosting, and as-a-service offerings. 

The more than 5,600 employees of the internationally active CANCOM Group, with around 80 locations in the DACH region, Belgium, Slovakia, Romania and the Czech Republic, as well as an efficient partner network, ensure market presence and customer proximity. The CANCOM Group is managed by Ruediger Rath (CEO), Jochen Borenich (CSO) and Thomas Stark (CFO). The company’s headquarters are in Munich. CANCOM generated annual revenues of around €1.3 billion in 2022. The Group parent company CANCOM SE is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the TecDAX and SDAX (ISIN DE0005419105).  

CANCOM in figures

1992

Foundation

TecDAX

Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Munich

Headquarter

5,600+

Employees

As a leading Hybrid IT Service Provider, CANCOM accompanies organizations into the digital future. The CANCOM Group’s range of IT solutions includes consulting, implementation, services, and the operation of IT systems. Customers benefit from the extensive expertise as well as a holistic and innovative portfolio that covers the IT requirements that are necessary for a successful digital transformation.

Sustainability at CANCOM

Creativity and clever ideas for a better future.

Sustainability is a matter close to our hearts and has a high priority as part of our corporate culture. We therefore think and act in an environmentally conscious manner and stand for responsible business and cooperation.

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Management board
CANCOM Ruediger Rath

Rüdiger Rath

CEO

CANCOM SE

Rüdiger Rath (born 1966, nationality German) graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Mainz with a degree in Business Administration and has more than ten years of experience in general management: Since 2008, he has been Managing Director and shareholder of Inforsacom Informationssysteme GmbH, which was acquired by Logicalis Group in 2015. In 2016, Rath became Head of Europe of Logicalis Group and was responsible for all subsidiaries in Europe as well as the international business in the Executive Board of Logicalis Group. Previously, he held senior finance positions at Inforsacom Informationssysteme GmbH and Amadeus Germany GmbH. On October 1, 2021, Rath joined CANCOM SE as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and member of the Executive Board. In this role, he was responsible for the entire operating business of CANCOM SE with a focus on the areas of Cloud and Managed Services as well as IT Solutions & Sales. Rath was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) by the Supervisory Board with effect from November 1, 2022.

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Jochen Borenich

CSO

CANCOM SE

Jochen Borenich was born in 1973 (nationality: Austrian). He studied Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and completed an Executive MBA at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration & Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota). He has also completed postgraduate trainings at Harvard Business School, IMD, Stanford University & MIT. He started his professional career at debis Systemhaus (DaimlerChrysler AG). From 2002 to 2010, Borenich was responsible for sales at T-Systems Austria and from 2006 was also a member of the executive board. Since 2010, he has served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) on the board of K-Businesscom (formerly Kapsch BusinessCom AG). In his book “Hybrides Arbeiten & Digitalisierung” (Hybrid Work & Digitalization) (2021), he deals with the topic of new working worlds as a co-author. He was also a founding member and president of ICT Austria until July 2023. On August 1, 2023, he moved to the CANCOM Group as Chief Sales Officer (CSO). As a member of the Executive Board of CANCOM SE, he is responsible for the regional sales units, marketing and portfolio management of the CANCOM Group. In addition, he is also responsible for the Professional Services Organization and Premium Support Services.

CANCOM Tom Stark

Thomas Stark

CFO

CANCOM SE

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: None.

Supervisory board
CANCOM Stefan Kober

Stefan Kober

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

AL-KO Kober SE

Stefan Kober (born 1970; nationality: German) started his professional career back in 1992 while studying economics at the University of Augsburg. After the founding of today’s CANCOM SE, Kober was a member of the Executive Board there from 1992 to 2005, responsible for marketing and sales. He then moved to the Supervisory Board of CANCOM SE, where he served from 2006 to 2014, most recently as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Following his position on the Executive Board of CANCOM SE, Stefan Kober moved to the Executive Board of AL-KO KOBER SE in Kötz at the beginning of 2006, where he was also responsible for Marketing and Sales. With its Gardentech, Air Technology and Automotive divisions, the AL-KO KOBER Group is one of the global players among German medium-sized companies. The group of companies can look back on more than 85 years of corporate tradition and is now being successfully developed in its third generation. Until June 2018, Stefan Kober worked for AL-KO KOBER SE, most recently as Chairman of the Executive Board, and is now Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AL-KO Kober SE. In June 2019, he was re-elected to the Supervisory Board of CANCOM SE and has also been its Chairman since January 2021. Due to his professional experience, Stefan Kober has proven expertise in the IT industry and in the areas of corporate management and control, sales and marketing, and accounting and auditing. Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: Chairman of Supervisory Board AL-KO Kober SE, Kötz (listed on stock exchange, no Group mandate) Member of Supervisory Board STEMMER IMAGING AG, Puchheim (listed on stock exchange, no Group Mandate) Member of Supervisory Board KATEK SE, Munich (not listed, no Group mandate) Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

In CANCOM Supervisory Board sinceAGM 2019
Office term endsAGM 2024
CANCOM Lothar Koniarski

Dr. Lothar Koniarski

Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Elber GmbH (Managing Director)

Dr. Lothar Koniarski (born 1955; Nationality: German) is a graduate in Economics (Diplom-Kaufmann). After his study, he worked as an academic assistant and academic counsel at the University of Regensburg from 1980 to 1985. After that, he was a Manager and Managing Director for several industrial companies. Since 1995, Dr. Lothar Koniarski was Managing Director of DV Immobilien Management GmbH, Regensburg, as well as of other companies of Dr. Vielberth group, which has developed and advised on complex commercial real estate locations in order to accumulate assets for the company. Since 2017, he is Chairman of the Advisory Council of DV Immobilien Gruppe. He is also Managing Director of Elber GmbH, an investment holding company for industrial investments. From 2005 to 2013, Dr. Koniarski was a member of the DIHK Finance and Tax Committee in Berlin. Since 2003 he is Chairman of the Finance and Tax Committee of IHK Regensburg. In 2010, he started working on the Regensburg University Foundation Board Foundation, the Hans Vielberth University Foundation and the Foundation for University real estate Hans Vielberth. Since 2013, he is the Deputy Chairman of the board of trustees of the foundation for the promotion of the University Regensburg. Dr. Koniarski has been a member of the Supervisory Board of CANCOM SE since 2013 and served as its Chairman between December 2016 and December 2020. He has been the Board’s Deputy Chairman since January 2021. Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SBF AG, Leipzig (listed on Open Market; no Group mandate) Member of the Supervisory Board of Mutares AG, Munich (listed on Open Market; no Group mandate) Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: Member of the Administrative Board Alfmeier SE, Treuchtlingen (not listed, no Group mandate) Chairman of the Advisory Council of DV Immobilien Gruppe, Regensburg (not listed, no Group mandate)

In CANCOM Supervisory
Board since		AGM 2013
Office term endsAGM 2024
CANCOM Isabell Welpe

Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe

Member of the Supervisory Board

Holder of the Chair of Strategy and Organization
Technical University of Munich

Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe (born 1975; Nationality: German). After studying economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA, and a master’s degree at the London School of Economics, England, Prof. Welpe received his doctorate from the University of Regensburg (Chair of Technology and Innovation Management, 2003) and her postdoctoral lecturing qualification at the LMU (Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Arnold Picot) on innovation and organization (2007). Since 2009 she holds the Chair of Strategy and Organization at TUM. Prof. Welpe conducts research from a behavioural perspective in the areas of leadership, innovation and organisation, including the selection and assessment of executives, strategic leadership, team leadership, the role of emotions in leadership processes, incentive systems and performance measurement in universities. It pursues a quantitative-empirical research approach in which different data sources (e.g. laboratory experiments) and research designs (experimental/correlative designs) are used. Due to her professional experience and scientific work, Prof. Dr. Welpe has proven expertise in the areas of organization, corporate strategy and management. Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: Member of the Supervisory Board of Deloitte Deutschland GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf (not listed; no Group mandate) and STEMMER IMAGING AG, Munich (listed; no Group mandate) Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

In CANCOM Supervisory
Board since		AGM 2019
Office term endsAGM 2024
Dr. Swantje Schulze

Dr. Swantje Schulze

Member of the Supervisory Board

Regional Vice President Sales Dataiku

Dr. Swantje Schulze (born 1996; nationality: German) is an experienced change manager with a proven expertise in digital transformation and cloud solutions. She has over 25 years of experience in sales in the IT industry, both globally and in the German market, with major international companies. Already during her doctorate, she worked as a sales and marketing manager for an IT company from 1999 onwards. In 2006, she moved to IBM Germany, where she worked as a Field Sales Manager for various products and was awarded the internal Achievement Role Model Leadership Award for her work. After three years as Director Sales for Software Solutions at CANCOM and one year in the management of the subsidiary Glanzkinder, she joined Oracle in 2014. Here she first led an international team for Inside Sales in Northern Europe, then worked in the German management for the Partner Business, before being responsible for an international team in 30 locations in APAC. Between December 2020 and November 2021, she looked after a large customer in the telecommunications sector at Microsoft. After a stopover at e-Spirit AG as Vice President Sales EMEA, she joined Dataiku in Berlin in November 2022 and is responsible for the German market as Regional Vice President Sales. Due to her professional experience, Dr. Swantje Schulze has proven expertise in the national and international IT industry, especially in product and solution sales as well as in supporting change processes in the organisation.

Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: None. Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None.

In CANCOM Supervisory
Board since		April 19, 2023
(court appointment)
Office term endsAGM 2024
Klaus Weinmann

Klaus Weinmann

Member of the Supervisory Board

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of PRIMEPULSE SE

Klaus Weinmann (born 1969; nationality: German) studied business administration at the University of Augsburg from 1990 and graduated in 1995 with a degree in business administration. In his second year of studies he founded CANCOM together with Stefan Kober and Raymond Kober. In a leading position and later as chairman of the board, he shaped the rapid growth of the CANCOM Group. In 1999, the CANCOM Group went public under his leadership. Since 2012 it has been listed there as one of the leading German IT service providers in the TecDAX index of the 30 largest high-tech companies in Germany. After many years of successful work as Chairman of the Executive Board of CANCOM Group, in 2017 he moved as CEO to PRIMEPULSE SE, the Munich-based investment holding company he co-founded in 2014 that invests in companies with a technological focus.

Memberships of other statutory supervisory boards:
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of STEMMER IMAGING AG (listed, no Group mandate),
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KATEK SE (listed, no Group mandate),
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of glueckkanja AG (not listed, no Group mandate).

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of business enterprises: None

In CANCOM Supervisory
Board since		Oktober 25, 2023
(court appointment)
Office term endsAGM 2024
Dr. Kari Kapsch

Dr. Kari Kapsch

Member of the Supervisory Board

Managing Director of Kapsch Immobilien GmbH

Dr. Kari Kapsch (born 1964; nationality: Austrian) joined Kapsch AG in 1982 and has held various positions throughout his career. In 2001, the physicist with a doctorate was appointed to the Managing Board of Kapsch AG with responsibility for Sales and Production. In this function, he made a significant contribution to the successful acquisition of the contract for the Austrian toll system for Kapsch AG. In 2002, he was appointed COO of the Kapsch Group and, in addition to this function, also held the position of CEO on the board of Kapsch BusinessCom AG, later K-Businescom AG, between 2003 and 2010. Subsequently, he served as CEO of Kapsch CarrierCom AG between 2011 and 2019. He also served as chairman of the supervisory board of Kapsch BusinessCom AG from 2011 until 2021 and as chairman of the supervisory board of the successor company K-Businesscom AG from 2021.

Memberships in other statutory supervisory boards: Chairman of the supervisory board of K-Businesscom AG (not listed; group mandate).

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies of commercial enterprises: None

In CANCOM Supervisory
Board since		Oktober 25, 2023
(court appointment)
Office term endsAGM 2024
Audit committee
ChairpersonDr. Lothar Koniarski
Vice ChairpersonStefan Kober
MemberProf. Dr. Isabell Welpe
Nominating Committee
ChairpersonStefan Kober
Vice ChairpersonDr. Lothar Koniarski
Environmental, Social, Governance
ESG expertProf. Dr. Isabell Welpe
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