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Gerhard Gerner

CEO

Gerhard Gerner’s dedication to the community and digital solutions expertise are key drivers of Cognizant Netcentric’s success. As co-founder and CEO, his focus is on people, technological progress and best-in-class solutions. In his leadership role, he enables the Cognizant Netcentric team to achieve outstanding results and explore the new. Gerhard brings a wealth of international experience in software development and managing teams. Thanks to his expertise in Adobe Marketing Cloud Solutions, he has established himself as a trusted advisor to Cognizant Netcentric customers and the industry beyond. His commitment to Cognizant Netcentric’s core values is reflected in his strategic vision of the company’s future through to day-to-day operations.

Dan Beldiman

Head of People Empowerment, Principal Solution Architect

Dan is a proud Cognizant Netcentric co-founder and a Solutions Architect for both Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Campaign. He is focused on infrastructure and operations and has designed numerous AEM and AC setups, with an emphasis on operational reliability. Dan is regularly engaged in fire-fighting missions and has successfully stabilised AEM setups for various clients around the world. Dan now leads Cognizant Netcentric's System Engineering team and is accountable for running and growing our subsidiary in Romania. When not working, Dan enjoys travelling - he has visited 60 countries and counting!

Piotr Zabiello

Head of Consulting

Piotr is a trained economist with an MBA in Business Engineering and nearly 30 years’ start-up and corporate experience. He is now a highly experienced consultant, senior project manager and executive line manager with extensive expertise in the Enterprise IT domain. Piotr describes himself as a CQ / AEM and Web Technologies "veteran", serving as Senior Vice President of Global Services & Support for Day Software from 2000 to 2009. A supporter of Cognizant Netcentric's annual sailing event, Piotr has offered himself for the role of Skipper of Cognizant Netcentric's Corporate Yacht (should this become a reality).

Alina Pana

Head of Talent Management

Katharina Schweighart

Head of Delivery

Katharina is responsible for setting the strategic direction for our Delivery by supporting our clients' missions and steering our capabilities accordingly. She focuses on empowering our people and teams, to ensure the successful delivery of all client services. Katharina has over 15 years of experience in software development. She has successfully led large, complex IT projects as program lead and account manager and is passionate about fostering teamwork and people development. She holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University Dresden and a Master's Degree with distinction in Informatics from Glasgow Caledonian University.

Urs Bucher

Chief Marketing Officer

Urs started his career in IT over 30 years ago and moved on to sales & marketing positions since then. As Director New Business he is responsible for the successful growth of business in our Zurich studio. He considers himself a hopeless optimistic, even after all those years in IT, digital and marketing. The proud father loves good food and wine and is a passionate TEDster.

Georgiana Gheorghe

Head of Organizational Agility

Since she joined Cognizant Netcentric, she has set a focus on building a PMO service that has become a key player in the way best practices are collected and shared across client projects, supporting successful delivery and providing Key Performance Indicators for external and internal use. Before Cognizant Netcentric, Georgiana has led global teams and conducted research projects related to social enterprises. Her positive attitude, attention to detail, and focus on optimization are the key skills that recommend Georgiana in her current role, supporting the entire Cognizant Netcentric Delivery in their pursuit of transforming our customers into fans of Cognizant Netcentric.

Stefan Heimann

Head of Growth, Director Consulting

Stefan has been working for more than 20 years in the field of professional software development in management roles and as an architect.

He successfully managed and grew up one of Cognizant Netcentric's key accounts for many years, where he led all strategic and commercial initiatives. Stefan is now heading an industry domain and the global Account & Growth group within Cognizant Netcentric.

His extensive experience in the field of software engineering, consulting and digital marketing especially with Adobe Experience Cloud Solutions enables him to effectively bridge business needs and technical possibilities to achieve best-in-class results for the customer.

Rasmus Frick

Director Consulting and Business Development

Rasmus has more than 20 years of experience in positions in various industries, and now more than 12 years in IT consulting. He has always focused on IT related processes that interface between company and their end customer. Rasmus is leading the global business development team and acts as circle lead of the Holacracy embassy. He holds a diploma in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and an Executive MBA from WHU/Kellogg. Besides spending time with his family, he enjoys playing the saxophone and mountain sports.

Fritz Oleinek

Senior Director Marketing Technology Consulting

With over 25 years of professional experience as a senior manager and at C-level in the field of Marketing Technology, Fritz has an in-depth understanding of all relevant areas, including infrastructure, information architecture, content, technology and digital marketing strategies. This enables him to “speak” both languages – Marketing and Technology, so he is perfectly placed to translate clients’ business requirements into granular, IT specifics. And he can also communicate challenges emanating from IT and development teams to clients and work with them to solve complex problems.

Dr. Peter Scheytt

Senior Director Business Consulting

Peter is recognized as a leader of complex transformation projects. He has almost 20 years of experience in building strong consulting teams, delivering value-adding international IT and business programs. His mission is "improving the customer experience of our customers' customers.” He will lead the growing Business Consulting Circle at Cognizant Netcentric. Peter holds a master’s degree in computer science and a PhD in management. He teaches university courses in business transformation and management, speaks four languages and is a passionate triathlete.

Malve-Marie Becker

Growth & Sales Director

Nicolas Athanasopoulos

Principal Enterprise Data Analytics & GenAI

Experienced tech/project lead with a proven track record in spearheading projects across diverse and global enterprise environments. Expert in solution design and hands-on setup of platform-agnostic analytics and data infrastructure across Adobe, Google, and Microsoft ecosystems.

Holds a master’s degree (M.A.) in media management from the MD.H University of Applied Science for Design and Information Technology in Düsseldorf.

• Adobe Certified Expert - Adobe RealTime CDP Adobe
• Google Analytics IQ Google
• Azure Data Fundamentals Microsoft

Jan Berhardt

Principal Solutions Consultant

Matthias Gau

Director UX Consultant

Matthias has over 20 years of experience working closely with business, design and development in digital business and product development projects. He has extensive experience in leading UX/design projects as well as migration and product development projects in multinational, multi-company, interdisciplinary, large scale project setups. As an entrepreneur, as well as Product Manager for international enterprises, Matthias built up a strong design and experience strategy focus complimenting his technical background.