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 world-wide IT organisation of a global transport and logistics company with more than 500 IT employees and a budget of > 200m€.
Working in closest cooperation with business, I was able to successfully advance various digitization initiatives. In global company mergers, I successfully completed the post-merger IT integration in a very short period 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 was accompanied by increasing agility and impact.
- Reorganization of the
business / IT governance model
- along with it, successful alignment of IT to the strategic growth goals of the company.
- Short-term enablement of
digital 'work from home' for
worldwide over
10,000 employees in the context of the CV19 pandemic.
- Successful post-merger IT integrations in four M&A transactions with international or global scope. Accompanying with it, 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 Background 14 years of responsibility as CIO / Head of IT.
A total of 30 years of experience as IT manager on 1st and 2nd management level, thereof 20 years on the IT-applied side.
Deep experience in digitizing the transport and logistics industry and building digital ecosystems.
The industry
- Logistics & Transport
- Retail
- IT Consulting & Systems Integration
CIO / Head of Group Information Technology
Hapag-Lloyd AG
2007 - 2021
Senior Director Application Development
Hapag-Lloyd AG
2003 - 2007
Head of ERP Solutions, Logistics/Retail
IBM Global Services
1996 - 2002
Project Manager, IT Consultant
Andersen Consulting
1990 - 1995