PLAUT - Key Persons


Dr. Georg Krause - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Chairman of the Board Msg
Dr. Georg Krause has had a professional career in the IT and management consulting industry. Since May 2017, he has been the CEO of msg Plaut, where he is responsible for the solution and consulting business of the msg Group in Austria, CEE & CIS. Prior to this role, he held leadership positions in various consulting firms, including Horváth & Partners, Steria Mummert, Deloitte Consulting, and SAP Consulting. At SAP Austria, he made a significant contribution from 2012 to 2015 to the strategic realignment of the consulting business and sustainable profit growth. Dr. Krause has also been actively involved for many years in the digital industry association "Internetoffensive Österreich" as a board member and managing director. Since 2012, he has been a lecturer at Donau Uni Krems. His commitment extends to a board position in the digital competence association fit4internet. Additionally, he holds the "Certificate in Governance of Enterprise IT" and is a "Certified Supervisory Expert." In addition to his leadership role at msg Plaut, Dr. Krause has been recognized as one of the 1000 most influential managers in Austria, highlighting his significance in the Austrian business landscape.

Dr. Jürgen Zehetmaier

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chairman of the Board
  • Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • Deputy of the Chairman

Dr. Raimund Binder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Raimund Binder was born in St. Pölten in 1960. After studying mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, he completed a doctorate in technical sciences at the same university. Raimund Binder also completed a postgraduate course at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and has been a volunteer with the Lower Austrian Red Cross for many years. He started his professional career in 1988 as a university assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, moved to the IT department of Interunfall Versicherung in 1993, then to Generali Versicherung in 1998 and has been involved in the financial sector ever since. Raimund Binder was first head of department, then a member of the extended management of Generalis Service AG and from 2002 managing director of the IT subsidiary of Generali Vienna Holding AG. At the beginning of 2006, he moved to the Wiener Städtische Group, where he worked as Managing Director of the IT subsidiary BIAC until the end of 2011 and then moved to the IT division of VIG Holding. From 2013, Raimund Binder was Managing Director of Hagenberg Software GmbH, before being appointed Managing Director of msg systems GmbH in the fall of 2013. Since then, Raimund Binder has remained loyal to the msg world and has held the position of Managing Director of msg Plaut Austria GmbH since August 2017. He has also been a member of the Management Board of msg Plaut AG since 2019 and is responsible for the Financial Services and Manufacturing divisions.

Hans Zehetmaier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Mag. Dr. Wilfried Drexler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board

Mag. Klaus Sickinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Board
  • Management
  • Member of the Msg Plaut Management Board
Klaus Sickinger has been a member of the msg Plaut Management Board since May 2023. Born in Upper Austria, he studied business administration at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and completed a master's degree at South Eastern Louisiana University in Hammond, USA. He has more than 20 years of international management, finance and sales experience in NASDAQ/DAX-listed companies. Klaus Sickinger has held positions including CFO at Oracle and SAP, Head of Sales and Managing Director of SAP Austria and Chief Operating Officer of SAP Central Eastern Europe. Since joining the company in 2019, Klaus Sickinger has been responsible for the expansion of msg Plaut CEE locations in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovenia.

Mag. Wilfried Pruschak

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supervisory Board