Tobias Maier is a business economist with more than seventeen years of experience in the SAP and IT environment. After holding various leadership positions in sales, project management and business development, he specialized in supporting transformation projects, building high-performing teams and placing demanding specialist and leadership roles. As founder and managing director of tectigo GmbH, he is responsible for a broad service portfolio ranging from executive search in the SAP domain to strategic sales consulting and content formats aimed specifically at technology decision-makers. In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, he is actively involved in the CIO ROUNDTABLE as regional organizer of the Rhine-Neckar chapter. In this role, he regularly brings CIOs and IT executives together and supports dialogue between the market, technology and management practice.

Dr. Oliver Oswald is a business information scientist and holds a doctorate in engineering with many years of experience in management and IT consulting. From 1996 to 2024, he played a key role in shaping the development of the renowned consulting firm MHP, a Porsche Company, across various leadership positions. Most recently, as a Partner and member of the Board of Management, he was responsible for international expansion as well as the strategy and implementation of global sourcing. Alongside his entrepreneurial work, he has been actively engaged in academia for many years. He is a co-founder of the advisory board for the German-language degree programs at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, where he serves as a guest professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. In this role, he promotes the exchange between academia and practice and contributes to the education of the next generation.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Metz is a habilitated economist with more than thirty years of experience in leading internationally operating IT companies. As a founder and long-standing CEO, he built one of Romania’s leading IT service providers, which he successfully sold to the Japanese technology group NTT DATA. From 2010 to 2020, he served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of NTT DATA Romania S.A., where he was responsible for strong growth, international expansion and the organizational development of the company. Today, Prof. Dr. Metz is strongly engaged in the academic world. He is Vice Rector of the “1st of December 1918” University in Alba Iulia and a lecturer at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca as well as at the Land Forces Academy in Sibiu. For his contributions to research, teaching and academic organization, he has received multiple honorary distinctions. With his experience at the intersection of business, technology and education, he actively supports the development of young talent and the exchange between academia and industry.