About CANCOM

Making the transformation to a digital world a success

As the #1 digital business provider, CANCOM accompanies its customers into the digital future. With passion and technology, we accompany their digital evolution and support them in reducing the complexity of their IT and developing new business models โ€“ and thus make an important contribution to their business success. CANCOM offers classic system house IT solutions as well as data-based digital solutions, managed services and cloud services to meet the IT needs of companies, organizations and the public sector holistically.

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As a leading Digital Business Provider, CANCOM leads companies, organizations and the public sector into the digital future. The range of services and solutions includes classic system house IT solutions as well as data-based digital solutions, managed services and cloud services. We accompany the digital evolution of our customers with passion and technology and support them in reducing the complexity of their IT and developing new business models. We offer a holistic portfolio for all IT and business requirements. The CANCOM Group’s offering comprises innovative solutions in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Security & Network, Datacenter & Cloud, IoT Solutions and Modern Workplace and includes services for the entire IT lifecycle โ€“ from the provision of IT infrastructures, planning and integration, to support, managed services and XaaS. Customers benefit from the extensive expertise with which their diverse requirements are translated into concrete industry-specific IT solutions to significantly promote their business success. 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 Rรผdiger Rath (CEO) and Thomas Stark (CFO). The company is headquartered in Munich. CANCOM generated annual revenue of around 1.7 billion euros in 2024. 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

Munich

Headquarter

TecDAX

Frankfurt Stock Exchange

5,600+

Employees

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.

CANCOM Nachhaltigkeit

Rรผdiger Rath

Chairman of the Executive Board | CEO

CANCOM SE

Rรผdiger 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.

Thomas Stark

Executive Board | 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.

Klaus Weinmann

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director

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.

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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-gab AG (not listed, no Group mandate)

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

First Order

October 25, 2023 (court appointment)


End of the current order

AGM 2029


Dr. Swantje Schulze

Member of the Supervisory Board

Regional Vice President Sales

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.

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Memberships of other statutory supervisory boards:
None

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

First Order

April 19, 2023 (court appointment)


End of the current order

AGM 2029


Dr. Ilias Lรคber

Member of the Supervisory Board

CEO and member of the Board of Directors of Spectrum Value Management Ltd. and Managing Partner and member of the Board of Directors of SEO Management AG, Jona (Switzerland)

Dr. Ilias Lรคber (born 1974; Swiss nationality) began his professional career at McKinsey & Company from 2001 to 2008, where he rose to Associate Principal. From 2008 to 2019, he worked at Cevian Capital as Partner and Managing Director of the Swiss office. From 2013 to 2019, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Panalpina World Transport Holding Ltd, where he served as Chairman of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee. In 2019, he joined Quercis Pharma AG as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Since 2021, Ilias Lรคber has been CEO, partner, and member of the Board of Directors of Spectrum Value Management Ltd. The company manages and oversees the industrial and private investments of the Thomas Schmidheiny family. Since 2022, Ilias Lรคber has also been co-founder and Managing Partner of the Spectrum Entrepreneurial Ownership Fund, an investment vehicle that manages a focused portfolio of listed European mid-cap companies. Ilias Lรคber holds an MSc in Engineering from ETH Zurich and an MA in Economics from the University of Zurich, where he received his PhD in 2004.

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Memberships of other statutory supervisory boards:
Holcim LTD, Zug, Switzerland: Member of the Board of Directors, Swiss Automotive Group, Cham, Switzerland: Member of the Board of Directors

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory boards of commercial enterprises:
Keine

First Order

January 1, 2024 (court appointment)


End of the current order

AGM 2029


Jรผrgen Maidl

Member of the Supervisory Board

Freelance management consultant

Jรผrgen Maidl (born 1960; nationality: German) studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Ulm and, after graduating with a degree in engineering, started his career as a software developer at a specialist for universal testing machines, where he also gained his first management experience as head of the software and universal testing system department. After joining Capgemini in 1988, he took on various management roles in both delivery and sales, most recently as International Account Director in 1994. From 1994 to 1998, he gained further experience in the system house and IT service provider environment at debis Systemhaus GmbH, most recently as Senior Vice President. In 1998, he moved to the BMW Group as Senior Vice President Group IT. Until 2023, he held various roles at the BMW Group, particularly in the areas of organisational development, logistics and process management as Senior Vice President. Since October 2023, he has been active as a freelance management consultant for international mandates in the service and software sector. Mr Maidl also advises companies as part of three advisory board functions and a mentorship programme.

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Memberships of other statutory supervisory boards:
Keine

Memberships in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory boards of commercial enterprises:
Keine

First Order

AGM 2024


End of the current order

AGM 2029


Vice-ChairmanKlaus Weinmann
ChairmanDr. Ilias Lรคber
MemberProf. Dr. Isabell Welpe
Vice-ChairmanProf. Dr. Isabell Welpe
ChairmanKlaus Weinmann
MemberDr. Swantje Schulze
Expert within meaning of Section 100 (5) AktG: AccountingKlaus Weinmann
ESG expertProf. Dr. Isabell Welpe
Expert within meaning of Section 100 (5) AktG: Final examDr. Ilias Lรคber