CORE-BACKBONE - Key Persons


Andreas Götz

Job Titles:
  • Head of Sales and Marketing
  • Member of the More Team
Andreas Götz has worked for Core-Backbone GmbH since 2013. As a member of management, he is in charge of the departments of sales and marketing as well as purchasing in client projects. After studying at the University of Regensburg and the Dual-Track University of Gera-Eisenach he worked until 2013 as the regional sales manager for a German food discounter. Andreas Götz lives with his family in the heart of Munich. In his leisure time he enjoys jogging and supports his hometown club Jahn Regensburg as a fan on the football field.

Benjamin Weik

Job Titles:
  • HEAD of DEVELOPMENT
  • Member of the MANAGEMENT Team
  • Member of the More Team
Benjamin Weik has since 2008 been on the staff of Core-Backbone GmbH. He is responsible for the department of development. Benjamin Weik lives with his wife and his children in Nuremberg

Daniel Maresch - Founder, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Managing Director
  • Member of the MANAGEMENT Team
  • Member of the More Team
  • Founder and Managing Director of Core - Backbone GmbH
  • Head of Management
Daniel Maresch is the founder and managing director of Core-Backbone GmbH. In the management, he is responsible for strategy, financing, purchasing and personnel. Daniel Maresch is the founder and managing director of Core-Backbone GmbH. In the management, he is responsible for strategy, financing, purchasing and personnel. Even before he began to study business computing at the University of Regensburg and business administration at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he in 1999 founded his first IT company as a sole trader. Since 2006 he has managed the operations of Core-Backbone GmbH, one of the most successful carriers worldwide. As the company developed into a modern carrier, the job duties of the IT infrastructure expert continually moved from engineering and IT more and more to strategy and management. Besides network technology he currently applies himself primarily to improving business processes, purchasing and staff development. As a excited 1.FC Nürnberg fan he lives in Nuremberg. His favourite leisure activities are football and skiing or his adopted home Mallorca.

Jana Rippberger - CFO

Job Titles:
  • HEAD of FINANCE
  • Member of the MANAGEMENT Team
  • Member of the More Team
  • Head of Finance and HR
Jana Rippberger has since 2020 been on the staff of Core-Backbone GmbH. As a member of management, she is responsible for the department of finance.

Steffen Zimmermann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the MANAGEMENT Team
  • Member of the More Team
  • Head of Support
Steffen Zimmermann has worked for Core-Backbone GmbH since 2016. He is responsible for the department of support. Steffen began his work at Core-Backbone in 2016 as an apprentice

Ulrich Köhler

Job Titles:
  • Employee
  • Member of the More Team
  • HEAD of NETWORK and IT - OPERATION
Ulrich Köhler has been an employee from the very start at Core-Backbone GmbH where he is in charge, as a member of management, of the key department of network and operation. Ulrich Köhler has been an employee from the very start at Core-Backbone GmbH where he is in charge, as a member of management, of the key department of network and operation. After his studies in applied computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg he additionally completed training at Core-Backbone GmbH to become a professional computer scientist in systems integration. Over the years he has constantly expanded his acquired knowledge in the fields of network engineering, IT security and service infrastructure. Besides these tasks, he is now responsible for the departments of product development. In addition, he is very devoted to providing the company's technical employees with advanced training where he has not shied away from conducting the training himself. As a family father, he lives with his son in the Bamberg region. The passionate motorsport enthusiast enjoys playing volleyball in his free time and likes to spend weekends in the nearby Franconian Switzerland.