Softship- About Us

Management

Softship’s executive directors are:

Detlef Müller

Mr Müller graduated with an M.B. Informatics from University of Applied Sciences, Wedel (near Hamburg) and began work as a developer for Softship in 1989 where he was responsible for developing a range of shipping applications. He became a project manager in 1991 and general manager in 1994. In 2000, he was appointed an executive director with specific responsibility for the production department, customer support, project management for dedicated accounts, consulting, application design. In addition, he is responsible for finances since 2007. Mr Müller is also a member of the supervisory board of Airpas Aviation AG.

Thomas Wolff

Mr Wolff began his career as a software developer and has worked with Softship since 1989. He was project manager for the section midrange and client/server computing for shipping companies, liner agencies and terminals, and was appointed general manager in 1994. He became a member of the board of directors in 2000. He is responsible for administration, production and sales at Softship, and still takes on customer projects as project manager, because to be as close to our customers as possible is a vital element of our company’s policy.

Other key Softship staff include:

Lars Fischer, Global Sales Director

Lars Fischer is Global Sales Director and also Managing Director of the Asia Pacific headquarters of Softship. Educated at Germany’s University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, Lars began working for Softship as a software engineer in 1994. He became a business consultant and project manager in 1996 and has headed-up Softship Data Processing, Singapore, since 1998. He is responsible for Singapore’s commercial and technical staff of around 25 experts and for the group’s sales & marketing strategy world-wide.

Lars Hansen, General Manager

Lars Hansen is Customer Support Manager and has been with Softship since 2007. He graduated at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg as Master of Science in Business administration. Additionally he is a graduated e-commerce manager and specialist in ITIL. He has extensive experience in leading consultancy teams, managing large IT projects.

Dirk Selter, General Manager

Dirk Selter is a senior project manager and has been with the company since 1994. After his graduation as a computer scientist from University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, he started as software developer at Softship, then became project manager for individual projects, and has been involved in IT consultancy and project management for many of Softship’s international clients.

We are governed by a supervisory board comprising:

Heiko Nocke (chairman)

Mr Nocke studied computer sciences before working as a software developer and then managing director of a well-known German software company. He co-founded Softship in 1989 and retired from full-time involvement in the company in 2006.

Gerhard Berchtold

After graduating from the University of Augsburg with a degree in economics, Gerhard Berchtold began his career as trainee with Allianz Versicherungs AG, where he soon gained a leading position. In 1989 he was appointed executive assistant, and, in 1996, was promoted to the management of Allianz, Leipzig.

Mr. Berchtold led the management buyout of Euroty Garantie AG / Quality AG and later became a supervisory board member of Quality AG. Since 2011, Mr. Berchtold has operated as a private investor.

Petra Neureither

Mrs Neureither was CFO of SNP AG from 1999 until Mai 2011. Since 2011 she is Managing Director of the family office PEN GmbH. From 2011–2013 she was also member of the supervisory board of the Tec-DAX company CANCOM SE.

source: http://softship.com/about/management.php