Martin Gnass
With my many years of professional experience as a CIO and in leading IT positions, I bring extensive expertise to the realignment and transformation of IT organizations.
As CIO, I was responsible for the global IT of a global transport and logistics company with more than 500 IT employees and a budget of > 200m€.
Working together with the business, I was able to successfully implement various digitization initiatives. In global company mergers, I have successfully completed the post-merger IT integration in a very short space of time, thereby laying the foundation for successful business integration.
Professional 'highlights' of the last 15 years:
- Transformation
of
IT
into a product-centric organization
in close coordination with business. This is accompanied by an increase in agility and impact.
- Reorganization
of the business / IT management model
- thus successful alignment of IT to the strategic growth goals of the company.
- Short-term enablement of
digital 'work from home'
for over 10,000 employees worldwide as business continuity measure due to the CV19 pandemic.
- Successful post-merger IT integration in four M&A transactions with international and global scope. The closest integration of business and IT integration across all national companies.
- Implementation of strategic digitization program with internally developed and purchased digital products including logistics digital platforms.
- Initiation of
digital standardization initiatives in the logistics and shipping industry together with global industry partners.
- Establishment of a 'Captive' Innovation Center in CEE with up to 200 employees.
- Development of strategic technology partnerships for IT operations, IT service management and SW development near and offshore.
- Strategy development and implementation of roadmaps for IT platform modernization under 'Cloud-First' strategy.
- Expansion of IT cyber security & resilience management system, taking into account KRITIS.
- IT cost optimization as part of a group-wide cost savings program.
Management Background14 years of responsibility as CIO / Head of IT.
A total of 30 years of experience as an IT manager at the 1st and 2nd management levels, 20 of which on the user side.
Deep experience in digitizing the transport and logistics industry and building digital ecosystems.
The industry
- Logistics & TransportHandelIT consulting / system integration
CIO / Head of Group Information Technology
Hapag-Lloyd AG
2007 - 2021
Head of Application Development
Hapag-Lloyd AG
2003 - 2007
Head of ERP Solutions, Logistics/Trade
IBM Global Services
1996 - 2002
Project Manager, IT Consultant
Andersen Consulting
1990 - 1995