Pliezhausen, July 12, 2018. The Supervisory Board of DATAGROUP decided to expand the Management Board by a Chief Production Officer. Andreas Baresel will take on this role at the start of the new fiscal year as of October 1, 2018. He will be responsible for the overall management of the individual service factories within the group.

“I am delighted that Andreas Baresel will complement the Management Board in this newly created role”, says DATAGROUP CEO Max H.-H. Schaber. “We intend to coordinate the IT factories to be able to offer the very best one-stop service to our customers.”

Andreas Baresel (43) will assume the responsibility for the management and coordination tasks as a member of the Management Board and at the same time become operational manager of the IT factories. This form of organisation will ensure that the highly complex CORBOX services are perfectly matched to one another in production. Since 2012, Baresel has worked as a director of DATAGROUP Business Solutions GmbH, where he was responsible for the development and expansion of the IT service business in Southern Germany. He is currently Managing Director of this largest DATAGROUP unit.

With the CORBOX product family, DATAGROUP offers IT services to its customers that are produced according to industrial standards. Customers can put together modular solutions from the full-service offering according to their individual needs, for instance for the use of private, public and hybrid Cloud solutions, application management or for running SAP system landscapes.

About DATAGROUP:

DATAGROUP is one of the leading German IT service companies. Over 2,000 employees at locations across Germany design, implement, and operate IT infrastructures and business applications such as SAP. With its CORBOX product, DATAGROUP is a full-service provider, supporting over 600k global IT workplaces for medium and large enterprises as well as public authorities. In other words: We manage IT. The company is growing organically and through acquisitions. The acquisition strategy is particularly noted for its optimal integration of new companies. DATAGROUP is actively participating in the IT service market’s consolidation process with its “buy and turn around” and its “buy and build” strategy.