GERMANY - Key Persons


Dr. Andrea van Aubel

has been a member of the Executive Board of msg systems ag since 2023. She has overall responsibility for the Insurance sector, is also responsible for the cross-sector Digital Services area, and provides the overall coordination of the central areas. She is also responsible for the Diversity Management executive department and the subsidiaries msg life, msg nexinsure, Digital Seals and Icon.CXM. With a doctorate in business mathematics, she looks back on 30 years of professional experience in the insurance and IT sector. Before joining the Executive Board of msg, she had already served as Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Digital Officer Insurance (CDO), member of the Executive Board of an insurance company operating worldwide and had worked as an Executive Partner for a global leader in the IT sector. Dr. van Aubel is a member of numerous committees and was also involved in setting up InsurLab Germany as part of the German government's digitalization initiative.

Dr. Frank Schlottmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Member of the Board of Directors, Msg
has been a member of the Executive Board of msg systems ag since 2021 and is responsible for the banking business and also for the areas Marketing and Communication, Legal, Compliance and Global Alliance Management. Furthermore, he is responsible for the cross-sector areas SAP Competence and Artificial Intelligence as well as the group companies msg GillardonBSM AG and msg Rethink Compliance GmbH. He holds a degree in Business and Engineering and had already worked for msgGillardon AG for many years before he took over the management of a banking consulting company of a globally operating MDAX group of companies in 2012. In 2016, he returned to the Executive Board of msgGillardon and became Chairman of the Executive Board in 2019. A long-time lecturer on artificial intelligence at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, he has in-depth knowledge of consulting and msg's core products.

Dr. Jürgen Zehetmaier - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
has been Chairman of the Executive Board of msg systems ag since the beginning of 2023. He is responsible for the Automotive & Manufacturing sectors and, together with Executive Board members Rolf Kranz and Dr. Andrea van Aubel, the Insurance sector. His area of responsibility also includes the central areas Administration and Finance, as well as Controlling and the Corporate Social executive department. In addition, he is responsible for the group companies msg DAVID, msg Plaut, msg global, msg Schweiz, Prevo, LPP (Legacy Portfolio Partners), FIDA, Optravis, SDA, ITeanova, ergon.design, BTPAG and CONPLAN. The doctor of business administration has been a member of the msg group since 2013, part of the msg Executive Board since 2020, and has many years of management and consulting experience in the insurance and financial services environment.

Dr. Manuel Audi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, BELTIOS GmbH

Dr. Stephan Frohnhoff

has been a member of the Executive Board of msg systems ag since 2011 and Deputy Chairman since 2023. He is responsible for the Public Sector business as well as the cross-sector areas Security Advisors, Identity Management, Competence Management and Test & Quality Management. He is also responsible for the central areas Human Resources, Information Technology & Organization and Business Applications. In addition, he is responsible for the group companies finnova, minnosphere, passbrains, mySaveID, msg BIN and FMA. With a doctorate in computer science and a graduate degree in physics, he has extensive experience in the IT industry, and in particular has proven expertise in software engineering. In his professional career, he has already helped to establish a number of sector-oriented business units. From 2020 to 2023, he was Chairman of the Executive Board of msg systems ag.

Dr. Stephan Melzer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Executive Vice President Industry, Msg

Dr. Thomas Kraft

Job Titles:
  • Head of

Hans Zehetmaier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board
As founder of msg systems ag, Hans Zehetmaier steered the extremely successful development of msg over four decades. Prior to founding the company, the graduate in business administration and computer science worked for IBM. In October 2008, he was honored for his top entrepreneurial achievements with the prestigious "Entrepreneur of the Year - Finalist 2008" award. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Senate of Economy, an independent and non-partisan organization that advocates an ecohumanist market economy. Hans Zehetmaier has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of msg systems ag since the beginning of 2020.

Horst Bratfisch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, Repuco

Johann Zehetmaier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Karsten Redenius

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Member of the Board of Directors, Msg
has been a member of the Executive Board of msg systems ag since 2019. He is responsible for the sectors Life Science & Chemicals, Food, Consumer Products & Retail, Travel & Logistics, Utilities and Telecommunications. As board member responsible for the Business Consulting area, he promotes the expansion of msg's cross-sector consulting business. He is responsible for msg advisors, the consulting network of the msg group, and for the area msg Research. In addition, he has been the managing director of the msg company m3 management consulting GmbH since 2012, which he previously helped to establish as a partner, and is responsible for the group companies msg industry advisors, msg food advisors, msg services, msg communications, DIPKO, Checkpoint.eco, BELTIOS and SOFTPROVIDING. Karsten Redenius started his career as an officer in the German armed forces, where he studied business administration. Subsequently, he held various positions in which he gained experience in consulting as well as the management of large organizational units in the corporate environment. This has now resulted in 20 years of experience in strategy development and implementation and also in design, planning and implementation of large transformation schemes.

KI Icebreaker Workshop

Job Titles:
  • Master Data Management & Data Governance

Michael Dusch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, M3 Management Consulting

Oskar Zodel

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director of Msg Systems Ag Switzerland

Rolf Kranz

has been a member of the Executive Board of msg systems ag since 2020. He is responsible for the Healthcare sector and is part of the Executive Board team responsible for the Insurance sector. In addition, as a member of the Executive Board, he is responsible for the group companies PiAL, msg Romania, edith.care and msg care assist. He is also responsible for the Global Delivery Services executive department. With a degree in computer science, he has been working in the IT sector for more than 20 years and is a proven expert in the insurance industry and healthcare sector. In his career, he has supervised numerous projects for the alignment of IT and transformation of application landscapes. Most recently, he was business area lead at msg, where he helped develop the market segments Statutory Health Insurance and Statutory Accident Insurance, among others.

Thomas Praska

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • CEO, Msg Industry Advisors Ag

Werner Achtert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Executive Board Public Sector, Msg Systems Ag