Frank Riemensperger

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Frank Riemensperger
Frank Riemensperger (2017)

Frank Riemensperger (born September 13, 1962 in Niederrimsingen near Freiburg ) is a German computer scientist and manager. He is currently the CEO of Accenture Germany.

Life

Frank Riemensperger, grew up in Weil am Rhein, studied computer science at Furtwangen University and Eastern Michigan University in the USA with internships at Texas Instruments near Boston and Ford in Detroit. He obtained his degree in computer science (FH) in 1987. He has been with Accenture since 1989.

Frank Riemensperger is married and has three parents.

Professional background

From 1987 to 1988 Frank Riemensperger worked as an assistant to the management at the management consultancy Integrata AG and switched to Accenture on January 1, 1989 (Andersen Consulting until January 1, 2001). He specializes in complex, digital business transformations, including a. Development of electronic stock exchange platforms, architectures for logistics systems and digitization projects in insurance, industrial, consumer goods and pharmaceutical companies. 

In 1998 Frank Riemensperger was appointed partner at Accenture. Until 2004 he worked in management positions within the country group Germany, Switzerland, Austria and was deputy spokesman for the management in Germany from 2002 to 2007.

From 2005 to 2009 Frank Riemensperger was responsible for the Technology division within the global Accenture Products industry group. In this role he was responsible, among other things, for setting up and expanding service centers around the world, particularly in India, the Philippines, Brazil and China. From 2007 to 2009 he lived and worked in the USA near New York.

Since November 2009 Frank Riemensperger has been chairman of the Accenture country group Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Russia (since 2017) and is responsible for the further development of sustainable market strategies and the expansion of business activities in German-speaking countries. Accenture currently employs around 8,000 people in the region.

At the beginning of 2019 he published the book “Defending champion.” Together with Svenja Falk (Managing Director at Accenture in the Health & Public Service division worldwide and member of the board of the Accenture Foundation). How German industry is securing its top position in the digital age. " The authors analyze Germany as an industrial location in the digital age and use specific examples and current studies to show that German companies with courage, technological intelligence, focus and radically new digital value creation and business models can continue to be successful in the future. In the book you describe the dynamics of the platform and data economy for the business-to-business industries with a specific perspective on the rise of China.

Memberships

Frank Riemensperger is a member of the Senate of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). Together with Prof. Henning Kagermann, President of acatech, he heads the “Smart Service Welt” working group. The aim is to provide coordinated recommendations for action and implementation to business and politics in order to advance the digital transformation of Germany's leading industries.

In addition, Riemensperger is a member of the executive committee of the IT industry association BITKOM , the Baden-Baden Entrepreneur Talks (BBUG), Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany (AmCham), member of the Munich and Feldafing districts, in the steering committee of the platform industry 4.0 and in the steering committee of the platform learning systems.

In cooperation with AmCham in Germany, Riemensperger has been organizing the "Campus Kronberg Talks" two to three times a year since 2004 - an exclusive series of events that aims to provide an "Accent on Leadership" with impulses from politics, business and society. to put. 

As a member of various juries, Riemensperger also annually selects the winners of the “Top 500 Award”, awards the “German Innovation Prize” and chooses the “CIO of the Year”.

Riemensperger is still chairman of the supervisory board of SinnerSchrader AG in Hamburg and a member of the supervisory board of the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Accenture: Biographies: The Leading Minds at Accenture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland , accessed on August 6, 2017 (German).
  2. ^ Henning Kagermann, Frank Riemensperger: Smart Service World - Internet-based services for the economy. June 2015, accessed August 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ German Academy of Science and Engineering: IT summit: Brigitte Zypries presents a new acatech project on smart services and digital platforms. (No longer available online.) November 20, 2015, archived from the original on August 30, 2017 ; accessed on August 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acatech.de
  4. ↑ Learning systems - via the platform. Retrieved December 28, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Michael Gneuss: Growth Stars. Die Welt, December 6, 2015, accessed August 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The German Innovation Award - The Jury. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.der-deutsche-innovationspreis.de
  7. ↑ CIO of the Year - Jury. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Supervisory Board. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Riemensperger, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederrimsingen near Freiburg