Definiens Management Team
Thomas P. Heydler
Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Executive Board
Thomas P. Heydler, Chief Executive Officer of Definiens AG, joined Definiens in 2004. He brings more than 20 years of entrepreneurial expertise and in-depth knowledge of global software business to Definiens.
Mr. Heydler was President and CEO at Barcelona Design Inc. based in San Jose, USA. Before joining Barcelona, Mr. Heydler served as President and CEO for InterPro Business Solutions, Inc., USA. He was Vice President and Executive Officer at Documentum Inc., a leading software and solutions provider with specific focus on the
pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.
He built and drove Documentum’s European operations and assumed worldwide responsibility for Marketing and Documentum’s Application Business subsequently. Prior to this engagement, he served as Vice President and General Manager Europe for Cadence Design Systems and held senior leadership positions at Siemens AG.
Mr. Heydler holds a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in Electric Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical University in Munich.
Dr. Wolfgang Rencken
Chief Operating Officer, Head of R&D
Member of the Executive Board
Dr. Wolfgang Rencken joined the company in 2006 bringing more than 15 years’ industry experience to Definiens. Dr. Rencken is responsible for all research and development activities, including platform and solutions development.
Prior to joining Definiens, Dr. Rencken was Vice President Engineering of the Siemens Medical Solutions Software Components and Workstations Business Unit, running a software platform development of more than 400 developers with sites in USA, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and India.
Besides holding further management positions in engineering at Siemens Medical Solutions, he was also a research engineer at Siemens Corporate Research and Development, specializing in service robotics, data fusion and image processing.
Dr. Rencken holds a bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and a D. Phil in Engineering Science of the University of Oxford, England.
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Dr. Markus Rinecker
Chief Financial Officer
Member of the Executive Board
Dr. Markus Rinecker, Chief Financial Officer, joined Definiens in July 2009. He brings more than 10 years of entrepreneurial and finance experience as well as in-depth clinical expertise to the company.
Prior to joining Definiens, Dr. Rinecker served as Managing Director at one of the leading surgery hospitals in Munich. He managed 350 employees, had full P&L responsibility, established a new department for open heart surgery and streamlined organizational processes to increase the organization’s profitability.
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Furthermore, he evaluated potential acquisition targets and participated in share deal transactions for the hospital chain Humaine Kliniken GmbH. He was also actively involved in the start-up venture ProHealth AG which opened Europe’s first full clinical proton radiation centre for cancer therapy in March 2009.
Dr. Rinecker holds a Doctoral Degree in Medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich as well as a Masters Degree in Business Administration of INSEAD, France and Singapore.
Prof. Dr. Gerd Binnig
Founder and Head of Research
In 1986 Prof. Binnig, along with his colleague Prof. Heinrich Rohrer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in scanning tunneling microscopy. Prof. Binnig and Prof. Rohrer were recognized for developing the powerful microscopy technique, which can form an image of individual atoms on a metal or semiconductor surface by scanning the tip of a needle over the surface at a height of only a few atomic diameters.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Prof. Binnig studied at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1973 and his doctorate degree in 1978.
That year he joined a physics research group at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory. Prof. Binnig was assigned to IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. from 1985 to 1986, and was a visiting professor at Stanford University from 1987 to 1988.
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Martin M. Ehrhardt
Vice President Remote Sensing Business
Martin Ehrhardt joined Definiens beginning of 2003. He currently serves as Vice President for Definiens' Remote Sensing Business within the Earth Sciences Business Unit. In this role he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities of the Remote Sensing Business Team. He joined Definiens from Autodesk Germany, where he was Head of Strategic Account Sales in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. Prior to Autodesk, Ehrhardt has been Key Account Manager for Computervision, a pioneer in the CAD/CAM business.
Mr. Ehrhardt holds a Diploma degree in Business Administration and Engineering from the Munich University of Applied Sciences.
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Ralph D. Humberg
Vice President Earth Sciences
Ralph Humberg holds the position of Vice President with Definiens Earth Sciences division. He joined Definiens in 2002 and is responsible for Definiens' global Earth Sciences business.
From 1998 until 2002 he served as Director of Global Marketing at ADVA Optical Networking, followed by the position of General Manager Asia Pacific launching and expanding ADVA's operations in Asia-Pacific with offices in Tokyo and Shanghai. From 1992 to 1998 Mr. Humberg worked for Siemens AG, holding various positions in engineering, marketing and sales in Erlangen, Tokyo and Munich.
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At Siemens ICN he drove multi-media projects including telemedicine and broadband video conferencing, and was promoted Business Manager for ICN's global transport edge-networks business. Mr. Humberg holds a Diplom-Ingenieur degree from the Technical University Munich having studied information technology at the Technical University Munich and the Tokyo Institute of Technologies, focusing on pattern recognition and computer sciences.
Frank-P. Klein
Vice President Medical Imaging
For more than five years Mr. Klein worked for GE Healthcare in different international roles. As International Marketing Director he implemented GE’s Early Health Model in Cardiology (a $2 billion global business) in Paris, France and at GE Medical Systems Information Technologies in Freiburg, Germany he launched the company’s leading cardiovascular IT solution.
In the context of GE's sponsorship for the Olympic Games, he supported clinical studies with olympic athletes and established a close relationship with the German Olympic Team by supporting the team with diagnostic equipment.
Prior to joining GE, Mr. Klein worked for six years as General Manager, International Sales for Schwarzer (a partner of Philips Medical Systems) in the Cardiovascular area.
Frank P. Klein holds a degree in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from University Siegen and TU Graz and a post-graduate degree in Marketing from MA Hamburg. At GE, he received his 6Sigma certification.
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Manfred Voglmaier
Vice President Business Development, Life Sciences
Manfred Voglmaier holds the position of Vice President Business Development for Definiens’ Life Sciences division. He joined Definiens in November 2002 as Global Director Sales & Marketing. Currently, he is responsible for developing the strategic direction of Definiens’ life sciences business and managing strategic partnerships.
Before joining Definiens, Mr. Voglmaier built and drove NuGenesis Technologies’ business in central Europe, served as District Manager at Documentum, and as Sales Manager for Kontron Instruments and Millipore Waters. Prior to this, he spent several years in the pharmaceutical industry working for Merz & Co and STADA in drug development.
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Mr. Voglmaier has over 20 years of executive sales, marketing and business development experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostic industries. He holds a Diploma in Analytical Chemistry from the Technical College of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt.
