Uwe Kritzler currently serves as the Head of Global Automation & MES CoE and Head of Global MES Center of Excellence at Lonza since November 2022, focusing on MES implementation. Prior to this role, Uwe Kritzler was the Global IT/OT Product Lead at F. Hoffmann LaRoche AG from December 2021 to January 2023, and held the positions of Global Lead Process Automation, MES and Building Automation at the same company from July 2016 to December 2021. Uwe Kritzler also has extensive experience at Roche, where the role included Head of Process Automation & MES for Europe and Asia Pacific and Head of the Process Automation Department from March 2007 to June 2016. Uwe Kritzler is an alumnus of Technische Hochschule Ulm.