adesso SE announces that Executive Board member Jörg Schroeder will be leaving the Executive Board of adesso SE at his own request with effect from 30 April 2025 to pursue new opportunities. Schroeder has been a member of the Executive Board of adesso SE since September 2019, helping to shape the company's successful development and its growth from around 4,000 to over 10,200 employees on the basis of solid finances. Under his leadership, the company was admitted to the SDAX in 2022. The Supervisory Board of adesso regrets the decision and expressly thanks Schroeder for his commitment and numerous impulses with which he has advanced the Finance division and the operational areas of Healthcare and Public Administration. The Supervisory Board wishes Jörg Schroeder all the best for his personal and professional future.

An experienced successor has been found for the Finance division in Michael Knopp (58), who will join the Executive Board of adesso from 15 January 2025. Michael Knopp has a contract until January 2028 and has many years of expertise in both group finance and information technology. The business graduate worked for many years as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the listed company SUSS MicroTec SE and subsequently at Materna Information & Communications SE. He is currently Managing Director and CFO of the IT service provider akquinet Holding GmbH, from which he is moving to adesso SE. The Supervisory Board considers Knopp to be the ideal person to successfully develop the Finance division in the rapidly growing Group.

 

 

adesso Group

With more than 10,200 employees and expected annual sales of more than EUR 1.25 billion in 2024, adesso Group is one of the largest German IT service providers with outstanding growth opportunities. At its own locations in Germany, other locations in Europe and the first locations in Asia, as well as at numerous local customers adesso offers consulting and software development services for optimising core business processes. adesso also offers ready-to-use software products for standard applications. The development of an own, industry-specific product portfolio opens up additional growth and earnings opportunities and is another key element of the adesso strategy. In 2023 and 2020, adesso was awarded the title of the best employer of its size in Germany across all industries. After having already achieved first place among IT employers in 2016, 2018 and 2020, adesso was ranked first again in 2023.

Contact:
Martin Möllmann
Head of Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 231 7000-7000
E-Mail: ir@adesso.de