Harald Ruckriegel
Area Vice President, Systems Engineering, World Wide Strategic Accounts Emea @Pure Storage
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Area Vice President, Systems Engineering, World Wide Strategic Accounts Emea @Pure Storage
Munich, DE
As Area Vice President of Strategic Accounts System Engineering I act as an inspirational thought leader, with an emphasis on possessing broad industry technology knowledge, executive sales experience and a ‘Customer First’ mentality.I act as SE leadership advocate, firstly leading from the front through engaging as an industry, and publicly visible influential thought leader, and directly helping to pivot key relationships in our accounts, as well as be an technical executive influencer through our pathways to market, primarily Commercial VARS.Pure’s culture is proving to be a powerful differentiator in the market, and a magnet in attracting the unique top 1% talent from a diverse set of technology segments and companies. As the leader of the SE organization, I connect to the hearts and minds of the Pure SE community, noisy, visible, leading from the front, inspiring and motivational, and to foster an environment that the Pure SE Community can thrive anddevelop during the key years of growth that lie ahead.In my role I am covering the three main verticals Manufacturing incl. Automotive, Financial Services & Insurance, and the Telecommunication Industry.
EDUCATION
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Diplom-Ingenieurin (Dipl.Ing.), Informatik
Tsinghua University
Executive Master of Business Administration, International Communication, Innovation and Leadership
Technical University of Munich
Executive Master of Business Administration, International Communication, Innovation and Leadership
ABOUT HARALD RUCKRIEGEL
I am a highly motivated and experienced IT senior manager with >25 years expertise in various Information Technology, Automotive & Industrial, business development and leadership roles with global team leads for strategy, sales, project, product, architecture, technology, ecosystem, and innovation management.At Quest Global i am a leader for Automotive Solutions and Technologies with focus to Software-defined Vehicle.In my last role at Red Hat as Global Industry Automotive Lead and Chief Technologist I was the Automotive lead with focus to Software Defined Vehicle / Vehicle IT and other Automotive topics.Part of the role was to develop, implement, and monitor the automotive vertical go/get-to-market strategy in alignment with the company strategy and in collaboration with key stakeholders in sales and product development, globally.Be the voice of Automotive for field sales, customers and all other Red Hat teams.The use cases are spanning from Vehicle OS and Vehicle Onboard, Autonomous Driving, Virtual Testing, Industrial Internet, Plant Service Bus, Over-the-Air-Updates, Connected Services to classical IT like Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and DevOps. My business and IT expertise next to my academic background with a technical degree in computer science and an executive MBA in Communication and Leadership (Technical University Munich & Tsinghua University Beijing) enable me to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.As part of my strategy roles (e.g. BMW corporate digitization strategist, Red Hat chief technologist) I regularly formulated and executed corporate IT strategies, go-to market strategies and lead cross-functional teams as well as organization-wide digital transformation activities. As IT project & build manager I had the technical leadership for different project teams as well as the responsibility for IT design & implementation of different systems. Also I am experienced in state-of-the-art agile project methods. In my former roles as IT innovation manager & strategist I gained knowledge to adapt to new technologies. My experience in former consultant and founder roles proves my skills and qualification as a technology professional in a customer-facing role.I have an extensive background for a wide range of systems & platforms (Cloud, Java, Microsoft, SAP, Mainframe, embedded). Part of this job was the enterprise architecture responsibility for IT systems of different business units and a team lead for international architects.
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