Alireza Tavakoli

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ABOUT ALIREZA TAVAKOLI

Alireza is Managing Director Digital of Schunk. A technology company providing high-tech materials, machines and systems. Generating around 1,8 bn. € sales with employees.In his role Alireza is group-wide responsible for all products, services and solutions enabled by digital technologies. He is leading product management and software engineering teams in 10 different Business Units and supervising Digital Startups with talented founder teams. Focus is utilizing innovations in IoT, Data, AI and Software Engineering for top-line growth and internal efficiency improvement. He contributes to an innovative organization and agile corporate culture that promotes and enables digital solutions. Before that he was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of nexineer digital (full subsidiary of the KAMAX Group) and Vice President Digital - CDO of the KAMAX Group at the same time. Further, he held the position of Global Head of Program Management & Innovation - Digital Transformation at the thyssenkrupp Group, of which he joined in 2011. He began his career as a production and logistics engineer with a focus on digital solutions. From 2014 he was responsible for innovation and digitalization initiatives for the entire thyssenkrupp Group. In this function he founded a \"3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing\" startup and managed it as a Managing Director until its successful incubation. From 2016, he was also the Head of User Requirements of International Data Spaces e.V, where he successfully implemented with various industrial partners (e.g. Volkswagen, Siemens, Microsoft) a secure and sovereign data exchange in cross-company value networks as the basis for smart services. This project was under the supervision and sponsorship of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).