CELONIS - Key Persons


Alexander Rinke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Co - CEO / Co - Founder
  • Co - Founder and Co - CEO
Responsible for overall business strategy, product development, customer delivery and value engineering as well as as customer operations in North America Co-CEO / Co-Founder Alexander Rinke is co-CEO/co-founder of Celonis. He oversees Celonis' operations in the US, marketing, and the continuous development of the Celonis Process Mining technology. Alexander supports start-ups as a business angel and most recently has helped to found Testbirds and Talentry. In 2015, he was named to the Forbes "30 under 30 Europe" list in Science and Healthcare.

Ashling Kearns

Job Titles:
  • Global GTM Chief Operating Officer
Responsible for driving seamless go-to-market execution by aligning sales, marketing, and customer success.

Bastian Nominacher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Co - CEO / Co - Founder
  • Co - Founder and Co - CEO
Responsible for overall business strategy, finance, people and business operations as well as customer operations in EMEA & APAC Co-CEO / Co-Founder Bastian Nominacher is co-CEO/co-founder of Celonis. As such, he is responsible for Celonis business in Europe and Asia, partnerships/alliances as well as finance & operations. Before founding Celonis in 2011, Bastian worked for Ernst & Young, Accenture, IBM and United-Domains. Furthermore, he is the author of several academic papers in the area of IT carve-outs and post-merger integration.

Benoit Fouilland - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
Responsible for leading the finance organization and driving our financial strategy

Carsten Thoma - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • President
Responsible for overall business strategy, corporate strategy & development, culture, innovation (incl. Celonis Labs), marketing and ecosystem Board Observer Carsten Thoma is an enterprise software entrepreneur and visionary who has helped shape the technological shift of an entire industry with Hybris, a company he co-founded and sold to SAP in 2013 in a multi-billion dollar transaction. Thoma was most recently President at SAP Hybris, where he successfully integrated Hybris into SAP, and was critical to SAP's successful paradigm shift in moving to the cloud and into the services business. Thoma brings a wealth of relevant experience to the board of Celonis, which he considers the industry's most promising enterprise technology company.

Dan Brown

Job Titles:
  • Chief Product Officer
Responsible for the company's product strategy, development, and lifecycle management

Greg Czajkowski

Job Titles:
  • EVP Engineering
Responsible for product development, quality, operations and delivery

Harry Nelis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
  • Partner at Accel Partners
Board Member Harry Nelis is a partner at Accel Partners in London. He focuses on consumer internet, financial services and software companies and led Accel's investments in CHECK24, Funding Circle, KAYAK (acquired by Priceline), Showroomprive, WorldRemit and others. Harry started his career as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard before founding the venture-backed software company E-motion.

Laurel Bowden

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
  • Partner at 83North
Board Member Laurel Bowden is a partner at 83North (formerly Greylock IL) with a focus on software and FinTech. She has led investments in many leading European technology companies. Laurel's current company boards and investments include BlueVine, Celonis, Ebury, iZettle, Mirakl, Wandera, Wonga and Workable. She is also on the Boards of Investec PLC and Ltd.

Martin Klenk - CTO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • CTO
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
Responsible for technology roadmap and software architecture CTO / Co-Founder Martin Klenk is the CTO and a co-founder of Celonis. He has been responsible for the development from the first prototype to the current version and today heads Celonis' development and innovation department. Martin has specialized in databases, algorithms and new big data technologies, and continously drives innovation and new capabilities in Celonis' products.

Philippe Mathieu

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President Sales, EMEA, LATAM and APAC
Responsible for go-to-market in EMEA, APAC and LATAM

Ryan Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
  • Co - Founder and CEO of Qualtrics
Special Advisor Ryan Smith is co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics, the world's leading experience management company. Ryan co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father and brother. As CEO, he has grown the company from a basement startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world, with more than 11,000 customers. Qualtrics was acquired by SAP in January 2019 for $8B in the largest private enterprise software acquisition of all time. Ryan was named to Fortune's 2016 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business.

Vanessa Candela

Job Titles:
  • Chief Legal & Trust Officer
Responsible for leading our worldwide Legal, IT, Information Security and Sustainability organizations

Wil van der Aalst

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientist
  • Member of the Board and Advisors Team
  • Professor at RWTH Aachen University
Chief Scientist Wil van der Aalst is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University and Head of the Process and Data Science (PADS) research group. He is known as the "Godfather of Process Mining". As a thought leader, author, and speaker in the fields of data science, business process management and process mining Wil is one of the most cited computer scientists in the world.