Effective May 1, 2022, Stefan Günzel will join the CEO Board of INNOSYSTEC GmbH in Salem. As part of the management team, he will be responsible for the national and international growth of the German software company together with Camilla von Baer and Peter Zerwes, and will continue to drive it forward.

With Stefan Günzel, INNOSYSTEC gains a CEO who brings more than 40 years of experience from various security sectors. Most recently, Günzel headed Rola Security GmbH in Oberhausen for more than eight years as Managing Director and Spokesman of the Management Board. The company provides solutions for internal and external security. Its customers include German authorities and organizations as well as international customers with security tasks.

He previously worked in the security division of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) from 2002 and held various management positions at DTAG and T-Systems International GmbH. Among other things, he worked in Public Sales as a top management consultant for customers from German security authorities.

Stefan Günzel began his career in the early 1980s with the German Federal Police (then the Federal Border Guard) and then worked for more than 15 years in various functions at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

"With Stefan Günzel, we were able to gain an absolute industry expert from the security and intelligence domain. His extensive network and many years of management experience make him the ideal candidate for the position of CEO at INNO," says Peter Zerwes, CEO and owner of INNOSYSTEC GmbH. CEO Camilla von Baer, adds: "Stefan Günzel combines all the requirements we need to further expand the national and international presence of our powerful multisource analytics software SCOPE in security agencies".

Stefan Günzel on his new role: "I am very much looking forward to contributing my many years of experience to an established, innovative and agile German software house. With our top motivated and highly specialized INNO team, we will continue the success story of INNOSYSTEC GmbH so far and further expand our solutions and products for national and international customers.

About INNOSYSTEC

INNOSYSTEC GmbH, founded in 2000, is an owner-managed software company based in Salem/Lake Constance.

Security agencies, civilian intelligence services and military worldwide trust in INNO software solutions Made in Germany. The product SCOPE offers a unique platform for the correlation and analysis of billions of data sets from different data sources. Coupled with more than 20 years of domain know-how and excellent technology partners as well as comprehensive after-sales services, INNO thus provides its customers with an unsurpassed, individual service package.

With its software products and services, INNOSYSTEC GmbH makes an active contribution to European IT sovereignty in the intelligence industry.

There is enough space in the new company headquarters built in 2020 to double the 75-strong crew of experts in the next few years.

Important visitor to a Hanseatic hidden champion: Hamburg's First Mayor Dr. Peter Tschentscher visited the PLATH Group and experienced a modern, fast-growing and successful company that specializes in the field of data-driven crisis prevention.

The importance of this branch of business and technology, the strong role PLATH plays and the promising global growth prospects, also with regard to highly qualified jobs in Hamburg, were the subject of a comprehensive tour through the company. "Precision instruments have been manufactured at PLATH in Hamburg for over 150 years. Today, the PLATH Group is a leading international specialist in data-driven crisis prevention and an important part of Hamburg as a center of innovation and technology," says mayor Dr. Peter Tschentscher.

The First Mayor was welcomed and personally accompanied by Nico Scharfe (Managing Partner at PLATH GmbH & Co. KG), Sandra Jung (CSO at PLATH GmbH & Co. KG), Michael Kalt (CEO PLATH Corporation) and Dr. Ronald Meixner (CEO PLATH Signal Products GmbH & Co KG).

As chance would have it, Peter Tschentscher's visit coincided with "Girls & Boys Day", which also was offered by PLATH that day. At the end of his tour, the mayor made himself available for a photo with the children and young people between the ages of 11 and 15 – of which the future talents of course were enthusiastic and impressed.

On April 28, PLATH focused on the people to whom the future belongs: Girls Day and Boys Day form a joint, nationwide day of action that offers girls and boys the opportunity to get a taste of future-oriented job profiles. The day, initiated by the Federal Office for Family Affairs and Civil Society Tasks, is also intended as a signal to young people to take an interest in job profiles beyond those that are still gender-specific - such as IT and scientific professions.

To this end, PLATH offered the 11- to 15-year-old pupils two attractive workshops, which were accepted with great commitment and enjoyment. In the morning software workshop, the children tested their programming skills and learned to write their own small programs. In the following hardware workshop, the youngsters soldered computer kits and experienced how much dexterity and sophistication hardware production still requires today.

Another highlight came at the end of the successful event: Since the First Mayor of Hamburg, Dr. Peter Tschentscher, paid an official visit to the company on "their" day, the students suddenly found themselves face to face with their mayor. Of course, a group picture with the mayor had to be taken. 

In September 2021, PLATH GmbH & Co. KG received the order from the Federal Network Agency for the renewal of four HF direction finders, including the corresponding software. Thirteen years ago, the Federal Network Agency acquired narrowband direction finders from PLATH. However, due to technological advances in hardware, it is no longer possible to repair the old direction finders, so the renewal of the direction finders was put out to tender. PLATH took part in the tender and was awarded the contract. The old PLATH DFP 5050 direction finders were and are in the process of being successively replaced by the successor DFP 5050 S from PLATH. The installation of the hardware and software will take place on-site in the established infrastructure at four direction finder points. The successive, selective replacement reduces the entire system’s downtime to a minimum. PLATH will also take care of the maintenance and operator training on-site.