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Tieto appoints Sabine Fischer as Country Manager for Germany
Thursday 25. June 2009 - Sabine Fischer has been appointed as Country Manager and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Tieto Germany as of August 17, 2009.
As Country Manager, Sabine Fischer will play a key role in implementing the reorganisation which was introduced last year. She will be in charge of all of the company’s business activities in Germany as well as strengthen the overall customer focus and push forward the development and introduction of new offerings.
Sabine Fischer has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry. She began her career with Hewlett-Packard in 1984 where she held several sales and management positions and executed a stronger focus on service business with national and international key accounts. Fischer’s most recent job at HP was Managing Principal, which included worldwide responsibility for the company’s service division with EMEA based global accounts. After her time at HP, Fischer became Director Consulting Sales at Oracle Germany, where she was in charge of restructuring the sales model for consulting services. Her next professional assignment came in 2005 when she joined Fujitsu-Siemens Computers where she has been responsible for the sales consulting organisation and, since 2007, also for the enterprise business.
“Our new operational model and strategy has really opened new opportunities for Tieto Germany. The past 6 months has proven that by combining Tieto’s industry knowledge with our infrastructure cloud strategy we can give tempting value propositions to German telecom, utility, healthcare and financial service companies. By appointing Sabine to head Tieto Deutschland, we are getting a true people leader with deep insights of German enterprises and advisory services. I am sure that she can really combine our excellent 1100 people team in Germany with the other 16000 IT and productivity specialists”, describes Pekka Viljakainen, Executive Vice President, Head of International and Head of Customer and Market Operations (CMO) at Tieto.
“I am looking forward to joining Northern Europe’s biggest IT service company. Tieto regards Germany as one of its key markets. This is why I will ensure an even increased level of cooperation with our customers in Germany. Additionally, we are going to expand our business in selected industries like the manufacturing and energy provider sectors,” explains Sabine Fischer. “Tieto intends to further develop its already strong position as R&D and IT partner for the telecommunications industry, definitely also in Germany.”