» Management Team «

Ulrich Gehrmann holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree as well as a Bachelors Degree of Economics. Since 1991 Ulrich Gehrmann has served as CEO of the Kontron (previously PEP) Modular Computers Group and since 2000 he is also CEO of EMEA for the Kontron group.

Prior to joining PEP, Ulrich held several senior level positions for one of Europe's largest retailers and was vice president of a leading German industry group. In addition to his duties at Kontron, he is presently an active board member in several high-tech companies.

Since December 2007 Ulrich Gehrmann is CEO of the Kontron Group.

Thomas Sparrvik is the Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Kontron AG, a member of Kontron’s Managing Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of Kontron America and Asia-Pacific. Mr. Sparrvik is also strategically and functionally responsible for Sales, Marketing, Production and Supply Chain for Kontron worldwide. He has global expertise in: Mergers and Acquisitions, P&L, operations, sales and marketing, strategic planning and turnarounds. Mr. Sparrvik has helped drive Kontron’s organic growth as well as lead several of the company’s strategic acquisitions.

Mr. Sparrvik holds an MBA from the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, England; an MSC in Electrical Engineering from Lund University, Sweden; and a BA in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from Pauli College, Malmoe, Sweden. Mr. Sparrvik is a certified engineer by FEANI, Brussels. He is also a Reserve Officer and Captain in the Swedish Army.

After completing his studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (B.Sc. of Computer Engineering), Mr. Finstel has gained almost 20 years of in-depth experience in the embedded computer technology area. Having founded Dr. Berghaus GmbH & Co. KG in 1991, he was active as CEO of this company until 2000. He headed Kontron Hamburg as CEO in 2000, and, as CTO and CEO, took over responsibility for the sales & marketing area at Kontron Embedded Modules GmbH from 2005. As Vice President, he was responsible for the Global Research & Engineering area at Kontron AG from 2008, and, as CTO, has been a Management Board member of Kontron AG since January 1, 2010, with responsibility for global research and development, as well as the technological strategy of the Kontron Group.

Dr. Jürgen Kaiser-Gerwens studied business administration, both in Muenster, Germany, and in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he graduated in 1990.

Until 2002 he worked at Unilever in various management positions in the financial sector where he was responsible for the restructuring and reorganization of large parts of the European business of Unilever. Lastly, Dr. Kaiser Gerwens was responsible for the financial sector "Spreads and Cooking Category Europe", based in Rotterdam.

In 2002 he became Managing Director of Dynamit Nobel GmbH, where he was responsible, among other things, for finance, purchasing, IT and personnel.

Dr Kaiser Gerwens took over, in 2006, the position of Chief Financial Officer for Schott Solar GmbH. After the reorganization of the company as a stock holder corporation, he was a member of the Board of Directors, responsible for finance, controlling, risk management, investor relations, legal, IT and Projects/Power generation.

Since February 2011, Dr. Kaiser Gerwens is the CFO of Kontron AG responsible for Finance, Controlling, IT, legal, internal audit, M & A and investor relations.