Ulrich Dietz

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Ulrich Dietz

Ulrich Dietz (born January 25, 1958 in Pforzheim ) is a German manager, former CEO of GFT Technologies SE .

Life

After completing an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer, Dietz completed a degree in mechanical engineering and product engineering at the Reutlingen and Furtwangen universities of applied sciences with a degree in engineering .

The GFT (Society for Technology Transfer) was founded on March 19, 1987 by Michael Schönemann as the sole shareholder. Ulrich Dietz has been managing director since it was founded. In 1989 he initially took over 75 percent, and finally 100 percent of the company shares in 1991.

Since October 5, 1998 Dietz has been CEO of GFT Technologies SE . At the end of the Annual General Meeting on May 31, 2017, Marika Lulay took over the management of the company. Today Dietz is Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Ulrich Dietz has led the company since GFT Technologies was founded. In 1999 he brought GFT to the stock exchange. In the following years, Dietz pursued a continuous expansion strategy - both internationally and organically. Under his leadership, GFT had 4,493 employees in twelve countries in June 2016. Dietz holds 26.3 percent of the shares in GFT.

In 2003 Ulrich Dietz was elected to the Presidium of the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media eV (BITKOM); since June 2013 he has been the association's vice-president.

Between 1996 and 2012 Dietz held lectureships at the HFU Business School Furtwangen, the University of Hohenheim and the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen.

Dietz has been managing director of the venture capital company RB Capital GmbH, which he founded, since 2017.

Awards

Bodies

  • Vice-President of BITKOM
  • Working group “Digital Economy in Germany” for the National IT Summit
  • Presidium of the Eastern Committee of German Business and spokesman for the "Information Technology / Telecommunications" working group
  • Member of the Brazil Board of the Federation of German Industries
  • Member of the Foreign Trade Advisory Board of the Federation of German Industries
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG , Stuttgart
  • Member of the “Young Digital Economy” advisory board of the BMWi
  • Chairman of the entrepreneurial council of bw-i (Baden-Württemberg International)
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Family Business Foundation
  • Member of the technical and scientific advisory board of the Diesel Board of Trustees of DIE .

Publications

Web links

  • Magazine Region Stuttgart - People in the Region: The Idea Factory (accessed on September 24, 2015)
  • Computerwoche - Ulrich Dietz in the Hall of Fame (accessed on September 24, 2015)
  • Welt - Interview with Ulrich Dietz: Do 5000 young companies need for two global players (accessed on December 22, 2016)
  • Stuttgarter Zeitung - Interview with Ulrich Dietz: The time was ripe for something new (accessed on December 22, 2016)
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Interview with Ulrich Dietz: Many students do not know what they want (accessed on December 22, 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GFT Technologies: New CEO at GFT: Marika Lulay focuses on international expansion. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b interim report . (PDF) GFT Technologies SE, June 30, 2016, pp. 7 and 20 , accessed on November 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Home. Accessed March 6, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ CTO Autumn Forum 2019. Accessed December 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ http://www.gft.com/thenewnew
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim