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Hamburg-based Implico Group appoints new CFO

Tim Hoffmeister joins the executive management of the software and consulting company

Hamburg. Software and consulting company Implico announced today that Tim Hoffmeister will become the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Co-Managing Director effective 1 September 2018. The 44-year-old complements the existing executive management consisting of Thomas Ernst, Torsten Peter and Stephan Buhre.

As CFO, Tim Hoffmeister will assume responsibility for Finance and Controlling and will also support the impending growth process of the Implico Group. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT sector.

Prior to his new role at Implico Group, Tim Hoffmeister was part of the German management team at Cognizant Technology Solutions for five years, where he was in charge of Finance, Operations and Change Management. His responsibilities included managing the integration of the parts of the C1 Group acquired by Cognizant with over 550 employees. Before that, he was a member of the executive management of the C1 Group and played a key role in the organic growth of the IT consulting group and in more than ten M&A transactions since 2003. As a Business Studies graduate, Tim Hoffmeister started his career as a management consultant at Bertelsmann and Conrad Electronic.

“We are pleased to have gained Tim Hoffmeister, a proven financial and IT expert, who will support us with his expertise in our expansion strategy and strengthen our management team,” Stephan Buhre, Thomas Ernst and Torsten Peter, the Co-Managing Directors of the Implico Group agree.

“Over the last few years, the Implico Group has developed into one of the world’s leading software and consulting companies for the international oil and gas industry. I am looking forward to continuing this growth trajectory in order to successfully support our customers in meeting the challenges of digital transformation,” says Tim Hoffmeister.

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About Implico

The Implico Group optimizes logistics and business processes for oil and gas downstream companies. The international consulting and software company with its headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, has subsidiaries in Malaysia, Romania and the USA. Founded in 1983, the company today employs around 200 staff.

Implico provides consulting services, data services and software solutions for the entire supply chain – from forecasting, order entry, dispatching and tour optimization to data collation and invoicing. Leading oil and gas companies all over the world trust in Implico’s industry expertise and high-performance IT solutions including OpenTAS, iGOS, and the SAP downstream solutions SAP SDM and SAP RFNO (both available as Business Suite or S/4HANA version).

OpenTAS automates the storage and transportation of hydrocarbons for refineries, tank farms, and service station networks. iGOS (Implico Global Operation Services) offers innovative downstream solutions out of the Cloud. SAP SDM (Secondary Distribution Management) steers and optimizes the complete order-to-cash process. SAP RFNO (Retail Fuel Network Operations) automates all payment and quantity flows of service station networks.

Implico is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a Software Development Partner of SAP and a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork. In the field of Terminal Automation Systems, Implico is market leader in Europe, Middle East and Africa (ARC market study, July 2016). The company has been recognized for its products and services on numerous occasions. It was named, for example, “Best Oil & Gas Software Specialists” in 2017 and received the Tank Storage Award as “Best Terminal Supplier” in 2018.

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Daniel Seegers
Content Manager

Implico Group

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daniel.seegers@implico.com

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