Karl-Heinz Streibich was born in Germany. He holds a degree in communications engineering from the Offenburg University, Germany. He started his career in 1981 at Dow Chemical Company in Rheinmünster, Germany as a software development engineer. Three years later he joined ITT Industries as Product Marketing Manager then moved to ITT-SEL AG now Alcatel-Lucent as Managing Director of the PC business. He joined Daimler Benz AG in 1989 where he served several IT related executive positions before serving as Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Debis Systemhaus facilitating the merger with T-Systems between 2000-2002.[1][2] He is a member of the Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsrat) at Deutsche Telekom AG, Dürr AG, Deutsche Messe AG and holds several honorary positions including Member of the Presidency of the German IT Association BITKOM, Co-Chairman of the Platform “Digital administration and public IT“ within the framework of the German Chancellor’s IT summit and he is a co-founder of the German Software Cluster of Excellence.

Currently he is serving as Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Germany-based Software Company Software AG from 2003. He is also responsible for company’s Corporate Marketing, Audit, Processes & Quality, Legal Affairs, Corporate Communications.[3] He is the author of the book entitled The Digital Enterprise published in 2014.[4]

Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Streibich [Zugriff Juni 2018]