We Are Celonis

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Responsible for overall business strategy and leadership

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Responsible for overall business strategy and leadership

President

Responsible for corporate strategy and development, marketing, platform ecosystem, culture, and Celonis Labs

Co-Founder and CTO

Responsible for technology roadmap and software development

Chief Engineering Officer

Responsible for driving Celonis’ innovation and technology leadership and building a world-class engineering team

Chief Legal Officer

Responsible for leading our worldwide legal and compliance organization

President of Global Sales

Responsible for global sales, solution engineering, demand execution, and overall company ACV growth

Chief People and Culture Officer

Responsible for developing top-tier talent and creating a culture where all Celonauts can grow, learn, and lead

Chief Customer Officer

Responsible for global customer success, services, support, and Celonis Academy

Chief Marketing Officer

Responsible for global corporate marketing, category strategy, and brand

Co-CEO / Co-Founder Alexander Rinke is co-CEO/co-founder of Celonis. He oversees Celonis’ operations in the US, marketing, and the continuous development of the Celonis Process Mining technology. Alexander supports start-ups as a business angel and most recently has helped to found Testbirds and Talentry. In 2015, he was named to the Forbes “30 under 30 Europe” list in Science and Healthcare.

Co-CEO / Co-Founder Bastian Nominacher is co-CEO/co-founder of Celonis. As such, he is responsible for Celonis business in Europe and Asia, partnerships/alliances as well as finance & operations. Before founding Celonis in 2011, Bastian worked for Ernst & Young, Accenture, IBM and United-Domains. Furthermore, he is the author of several academic papers in the area of IT carve-outs and post-merger integration.

CTO / Co-Founder Martin Klenk is the CTO and a co-founder of Celonis. He has been responsible for the development from the first prototype to the current version and today heads Celonis’ development and innovation department. Martin has specialized in databases, algorithms and new big data technologies, and continously drives innovation and new capabilities in Celonis’ products.

Board Member Laurel Bowden is a partner at 83North (formerly Greylock IL) with a focus on software and FinTech. She has led investments in many leading European technology companies. Laurel’s current company boards and investments include BlueVine, Celonis, Ebury, iZettle, Mirakl, Wandera, Wonga and Workable. She is also on the Boards of Investec PLC and Ltd.

Board Member Harry Nelis is a partner at Accel Partners in London. He focuses on consumer internet, financial services and software companies and led Accel’s investments in CHECK24, Funding Circle, KAYAK (acquired by Priceline), Showroomprive, WorldRemit and others. Harry started his career as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard before founding the venture-backed software company E-motion.

Board Member Alex Ott is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents. He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference. Alex Ott is on the board of several software companies, such as QlikTech and Forgerock, and actively supports Celonis in this position.

Board Observer Carsten Thoma is an enterprise software entrepreneur and visionary who has helped shape the technological shift of an entire industry with Hybris, a company he co-founded and sold to SAP in 2013 in a multi-billion dollar transaction. Thoma was most recently President at SAP Hybris, where he successfully integrated Hybris into SAP, and was critical to SAP’s successful paradigm shift in moving to the cloud and into the services business. Thoma brings a wealth of relevant experience to the board of Celonis, which he considers the industry's most promising enterprise technology company.

Special Advisor Ryan Smith is co-founder and CEO of Qualtrics, the world’s leading experience management company. Ryan co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father and brother. As CEO, he has grown the company from a basement startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world, with more than 11,000 customers. Qualtrics was acquired by SAP in January 2019 for $8B in the largest private enterprise software acquisition of all time. Ryan was named to Fortune’s 2016 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business.

Chief Scientist Wil van der Aalst is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University and Head of the Process and Data Science (PADS) research group. He is known as the “Godfather of Process Mining”. As a thought leader, author, and speaker in the fields of data science, business process management and process mining Wil is one of the most cited computer scientists in the world.