Dirk Leopold is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in digital engineering and operations management. Since April 2016, Dirk has served as Executive Vice President of Digital Engineering at itemis AG. Concurrently, Dirk has been a lecturer at FOM Hochschule - University of Applied Sciences since March 2010, teaching E-Commerce and Mobile Computing to Bachelor and Master's students. Previous roles include Director of Operations at BEONTRA AG from March 2011 to February 2016, COO of Trivid GmbH from August 2009 to August 2011, and Director of Business Development at Achievo Deutschland AG from January 2006 to August 2009. Dirk also held sales leadership positions at Siemens COM Singapore and Brokat AG / Encorus. Dirk completed a Joint Masters in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering at Technische Universität Darmstadt.