Ulrich Dietz

Ulrich Dietz (* 25 January 1958 in Pforzheim) is a German Manager. He is the founder and CEO of GFT Technologies AG.

Career

Ulrich Dietz studied mechanical engineering and product engineering at the universities of Reutlingen and of Furtwangen and graduated as a certified engineer.

He is the co-founder of the Transfer Centre for Information Technology (TZI) at the Steinbeis Foundation for business development.

In 1987, Ulrich Dietz founded the IT service company GFT and became managing director. In 1999, Dietz took GFT public, listing it on the German STOCK exchange. Since then, Ulrich Dietz has been CEO of GFT Technologies AG. In the years that followed he has continued to expand the company, taking it to an international level. Under his leadership, the GFT Group currently employs around 1,100 full-time and around 1,500 freelance employees at locations in seven countries. Dietz holds 28.46 % of all GFT shares.

In 2003, Ulrich Dietz became a member of the Presiding Committee of BITKOM (the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media). In this role, he is particularly responsible for the promotion and the expansion of international relations in the German IT industry. Furthermore, he is a member of the task force which represents “IT in small and medium-sized companies” within the scope of the federal government’s National IT Summit. The task force’s main aim is to improve IT availability for small and medium-sized companies, as well as the possibility of further education. Since March 2010, Ulrich Dietz is Speaker of the committee for IT/ICT of the Eastern European Economic Relations by the German Government.

Committees

Ulrich Dietz is a member of the following boards:

  • Member of the Presiding Committee of BITKOM (the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media)
  • Speaker of the committee for IT/ICT of the Eastern European Economic Relations by the German Government
  • Member of the task force “IT in small and medium-sized companies” within the scope of the federal government’s National IT Summit
  • Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG, Stuttgart
  • Chairman of the Advisory Board bw-i (Baden-Württemberg International)

Bibliography

  • Dietz, Ulrich: The new New. DISTANZ Verlag, Wuppertal 2010, ISBN 978-3-942405-09-6. In English and German

References

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