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.

Within the global Sales Organization of Serrala Stephan is working closely with the Chief Sales Officer on executing the sales and go-to-market strategy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). In his role, he is responsible for maintaining and expanding Serrala’s strong customer base in the German-speaking region. 

Based on his expertise in decades of customer communication, software and services, Stephan has built trustful and long-term client relationships. He successfully guides our customers in the DACH region into the next generation of B2B payments software, always with the intent of creating additional value for them.

Prior to joining Serrala, Stephan was Sales Director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland at Pulsion Medical Systems AG. He has also worked for international companies such as Hewlett Packard and Philips. Stephan holds a degree in medical engineering.

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.

Stefan is responsible for Serrala’s services offering which includes Implementation Services (Consulting), Managed Automation and Customer Support. Within the Implementation Services department, he oversees the delivery of customer consulting work across all global practices and solutions areas.

In his position, Stefan focuses on delivery excellence and harmonizing the global outreach of Serrala’s services. Further to that, Stefan lays the operational foundation to enable Serrala to scale in scope of the company’s strong continued growth.

Stefan has extensive experience in corporate strategy and IT leadership. Prior to joining Serrala, he has served as CSO and board member at Allgeier Enterprise Services AG and as CIO / COO and board member at INFO AG (now QSC AG). Stefan holds a degree in Business Informatics.

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.
 

Dirk manages Serrala’s financial operations as well as all commercial areas of the company like HR, IT, Legal and Administration. In his role, Dirk is responsible for all finance-related processes including accounting, financial planning & analysis, and takes care of the legal entity footprint of the group. 

Based on his extensive commercial management experience, Dirk successfully established and standardized financial and operational processes within the Serrala Group. The continuous improvement and automation of all business-relevant processes, contribute to Serrala's global growth strategy.

Dirk has held various management positions and joined from travel agent Alltours, where he served as CFO. Dirk holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Cologne.