Hamburg / Zaltbommel, 1 March 2011 - As of 1 April 2011, Dieter Grosse-Kreul will start as new CEO of Qurius Deutschland AG, a 100% subsidiary of Qurius NV in the Netherlands. Mr Grosse-Kreul succeeds Kay Laukat, who will leave the company.
Before joining Qurius, Mr Grosse-Kreul (55) was CEO of UNIT4Agresso in Germany, an European wide ERP supplier. He began his IT career in 1980 at General Electric Information-Services as Account Manager. Since 1986 he has held various management positions such as Sales Manager at Bertelsmann and Debis, branch manager at Ingres and Oracle, Vice President Central Europe at Baan und CEO at Business Objects, before he started at UNIT4Agresso in November 2005.
Leen Zevenbergen, CEO of Qurius NV, says: "Dieter Grosse-Kreul has the right experience, management and entrepreneurial skills to bring the Qurius Germany organization to the next level."
The current CEO, Kay Laukat, has decided to step down from his position and leave the company after 20 years of Management and Board positions in various companies, including founder and president of Cabus Business Solutions. He has fulfilled the position of Managing Director of Qurius Germany since November 2007.
Leen Zevenbergen continues: "We thank Kay Laukat for his contribution to the company of the past years and the successful merging of our German organizations into one Qurius company with a clear vision on innovation, news ways of working and sustainability. We look forward to further build and strengthen our German operation headed by Dieter Grosse-Kreul and to bring our customers the best solutions to create sustainable success."
Qurius N.V.
Qurius provides IT solutions: design, architecture, infrastructure, implementation and system management of Microsoft-based business and IT solutions. From our head office in Zaltbommel we serve clients throughout Europe, including Belgium, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic. In 2010, we openly communicated our objective of achieving 100% sustainable operations by 2014. In this way, we want to become the leading European organisation in sustainable IT. We work with clients and partners who are equally ambitious and have the same sustainability objectives. Qurius has been listed on the Euronext Amsterdam since 1988. For more information visit
www.qurius.nl
Contact
Qurius NV, Suzanne Schaapman, Manager Corporate Communications,
s.schaapman@qurius.com; +31 (0)418 68 35 00.