[ff-marketing] Fwd: Gaia-X CEO Transition

[Cristina Brandtstetter]

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From: Gaia-X <info at gaia-x.eu>
Date: Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Subject: Gaia-X CEO Transition
To: <cristina.brandtstetter at fiware.org>


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Dear Gaia-X Members and Hubs Coordinators,



We are pleased to officially announce the appointment of Ulrich Ahle as the
new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Gaia-X European Association for
Data and Cloud AISBL as of 1 November 2023. He succeeds Francesco
Bonfiglio, who had been leading the non-profit association for almost three
years and whose mandate ended on 30 September 2023.



The interim period of 1 October 2023 to 31 October 2023 is covered by the
Gaia-X COO, Roland Fadrany and Gaia-X CTO, Pierre Gronlier, co-CEOs.



Ulrich Ahle brings more than 30 years of experience in the IT & Digital
industry. As the Chief Executive Officer of the FIWARE Foundation since
2017, Ahle has played a pivotal role in advancing open source solutions for
smart cities, industry, energy, etc. Ulrich Ahle was previously Vice
President and leader of the Manufacturing and Industrie 4.0 System
Integration business at Atos in Germany. Ahle is also founder and member of
the Board of the International Data Spaces Association in Germany and
served 16 years on the Board of the prostep IVIP organisation.

*“Francesco was a great CEO for Gaia-X, and we are grateful for his
leadership and energy during the last three years. I am pleased that we
have found an excellent successor in Ulrich Ahle, whose remarkable
experience will make a significant contribution to our organisation as it
embarks on the next level in its mission. Gaia-X aims to facilitate
European and International adoption of an open, transparent and secure
federated digital ecosystem, in which data and services are governed by
common rules and can be built, collected and shared freely and securely. At
the present time, almost all European regulations for data sharing have
been adopted and promoting the proper set of compliance organisations and
tools is critical for the industrial success of the data economy. Ulrich
Ahle has been actively participating to internationally build such a
framework in the domain of key open standards to enable smart solutions and
will drive our ambition to this next step.”*



*Catherine Jestin*, Executive Vice President Digital and Information
Management at Airbus and Chairwoman of the Gaia-X Association

*“Based on the growing power of artificial intelligence and digital
business models, data is becoming an even more strategic asset for
sustainability and competitive advantage in several business domains. In
addition, there is an increasing demand for a global and
inter-organisational collaboration based on shared data. Based on European
values, Gaia-X has designed a high-performance, competitive, secure, and
trustworthy federated data infrastructure. I will contribute my experience
in transferring innovative solutions into market adoption and build a
sustainable global ecosystem around the Gaia-X technology together with the
whole team. An even stronger harmonization of the public funding at EU and
member state level will further push the market adoption of Gaia-X based
solutions. This will be based on a clear vision and strategy of the
deliverables provided by the Gaia-X ecosystem creating value for its
members.”*



*Ulrich Ahle,* Gaia-X Chief Executive Officer

*Francesco Bonfiglio, the Former CEO of the Gaia-X Association, said: “I
had the honour to start and grow Gaia-X, bringing my vision into an
endeavour that I consider unique and paramount for Europe. Walking the talk
of my five year plan, at the end of 2023 finally Gaia-X will become
tangible, through the deployment in the market of the compliance services,
and the first public catalogue. Having developed this foundation, thanks to
the great effort of my team and all members, I now consider my work done.
Grateful to all and proud of what we built, I wish the best of success to
my friend Ulrich and look forward to seeing the expansion and scale up of
Gaia-X.”*



*Francesco Bonfiglio*, the Former Gaia-X CEO

The Press Release is available on the Gaia-X Website
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With Best Wishes,

The Gaia-X Team
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