Leadership

Sven has been CEO and Chairman of the Board at Serrala since 2012. In his role, he transformed the company into a global B2B payments player by anticipating future market trends, restructuring the organization and implementing a new business model.

Sven strengthened Serrala’s global footprint significantly. Under his guidance, the privately held company strengthened its innovative power and set course for further growth. After company acquisitions, Serrala opened new offices worldwide including a major footprint in North America. With his strong expertise in software and services, together with his exceptional entrepreneurial spirit, Sven transformed Serrala from a provider of ERP-integrated solutions to a modern cloud-oriented organization.

Having started as a banking professional and IT specialist, Sven joined Serrala in 1995. In the following years, he held various positions within the company, including Software Developer, Solution Architect as well as several senior expert roles as consultant. In 2001, he was appointed to the executive board.

Christoph leads the operationalization of the corporate strategy through growth and transformational initiatives. In his role, he is responsible for customer success, solution success, marketing, strategic projects, M&A and integration.

Christoph has an extensive track record in international development and implementation of corporate growth strategies. At Serrala, he shaped the operational excellence to extend the significant company growth and executed against it through organic initiatives, selective M&A transactions and the integration of newly acquired companies into the group.

Prior to joining Serrala in 2016, he worked at the top management consultancy McKinsey & Company and for Waterland Private Equity. Christoph holds a BSc in Business Administration and a MSc in Management from ESCP Europe Business School.

Oliver is leading the global customer experiences of Serrala. In his role, he is responsible for applying a customer centric approach and generating growth results along the value chain, from onboarding, delivery/implementation, and customer support to customer engagement and renewal.

Oliver brings outstanding experience in driving and growing services for on-premise as well as cloud customers to Serrala. As CCSO, he focuses on building high-performing consulting, support and customer success teams as well as on delivering operational excellence to further accelerate growth and customer satisfaction.

Prior to joining Serrala, Oliver was a member of the senior leadership team at OpenText, a leading global provider of information management solutions, and spent the last 7 years leading the professional services units worldwide. Prior to this, he built local and regional services units, drove integrations, and implemented new business models to drive growth and cloud transformation.

Constantin is responsible for the global product development including product management, engineering, and quality assurance. He defines the technological strategy and innovation roadmap of the entire Serrala product and solution portfolio.

With his background in ERPs, cloud strategies and agile environments, Constantin understands the challenges companies face while increasing their level of automation and digitization. At Serrala, he builds future-proof products and drives the integration of new as well as the evolution of existing solutions to anticipate customer’s needs and requirements to move their finance functions into the digital age.

Constantin has extensive experience in project and process management, strategy and leadership. Prior to joining Serrala in 2020, he worked at one of the leading global ERP providers, Sage, leading the native cloud payroll portfolio in a global function. Constantin holds a master’s degree in Bioinformatics from Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany.
 

Axel oversees the global finance operations of Serrala and is responsible for all commercial areas of the company like HR, IT, Legal, and Administration. Axel uses his CFO lens to drive financial strategies and finance-related processes including accounting, financial planning & analysis that deliver a return in business transformation.

Axel brings substantial experience in heading fast-growing international organizations to the company. Before joining Serrala he held executive senior leadership roles at Unzer (formerly: heidelpay group), a fast-growing, innovative, and modular platform for international payments and at PharmaSGP SE (healthcare and pharmaceuticals), and Tom Tailor Holding SE where he managed the IPO in 2010.

Axel holds an MBA in Economics from Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-University, Hannover, and a Ph.D. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Chemnitz.

Mike is responsible for the global sales and revenue management. As an accomplished sales leader, Mike drives the strategy and execution of the company's worldwide go-to-market efforts to achieve the financial and strategic goals of Serrala.

With his proven track record in growing companies in software sales, including defining and executing global go-to-market strategies, building effective sales teams and developing strategic partnerships, Mike will further accelerate Serrala’s continued growth and deliver relevant and actionable insights to our clients to help them build competitive advantages.

Mike joins from Unit4 where he served as both CRO and COO, globally responsible for sales execution and field operations. Prior to Unit4, Mike held senior leadership roles at SAP, Software AG, and IBM.