Chris Nicolaes

Consulting firm specialized in helping IT companies to improve their market position or enter new markets. - Interim Management for Business Transformation and Change projects - Go-to-market planning, internal development, exploring partnerships, structuring sale - Coach and confidant for CEOs of IT companies - Mentor for start-ups (Ludwig Maximilian University and Technical University Munich)

Leading provider of Enterprise Product Costing software with offices in Germany and USA. Delivering enterprise-wide cost transparency to enterprises in automotive, aerospace, engineering, high-tech & electronics. Enabling companies to accelerate their costing processes and improve cost accuracy by bringing together the financial view and the engineering perspective of costs.

Leading provider of Social Enterprise Management Software, encompassing and integrating human services, labor-, health-, social security-, and military & veterans agencies around the globe. Cúram was acquired and is now part of IBM.

Worldwide leading provider of PLM Software. Main markets: industrial & automotive, aerospace & defense, high-tech & electronics and consumer products. Responsible for the sales & services organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. MatrixOne was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 2005.

Provider of Business Intelligence & Balanced Scorecard software and services. 2001 Gentia was acquired and their solution proprietarily used in the new owners product. Gentia's support and service for (multinational) customers in DACH was taken over by ebm Solutions while developing a successor Balanced Scorecard product.

World-leading provider of software (CAD, PLM) and CNC cutting equipment for industries using fabrics, leather, technical textiles, and composite materials. 33 Sites worldwide serving Fashion & Apparel (23.000 customers), Automotive (car-seats, airbags) and Furniture (upholstery) as well as a broad array of other industries. Lectra’s solutions, specific to each market, enable customers to automate and optimize product design, product development and manufacturing.