11. January 2021 - (Munich, Germany and New York City, USA) - Celonis, the global leader in Execution Management Systems (EMS), today announced the appointment of Lars Reinkemeyer as Vice President Customer Transformation.
Reinkemeyer joins from Siemens, where he held multiple senior executive roles and expanded the company’s own implementation of Celonis process mining. At Siemens, Reinkemeyer created a Celonis Center of Excellence and nurtured a large user community of process and execution experts. Reinkemeyer is the author of Process Mining in Action: Principles, Use Cases and Outlook, published earlier this year.
At Celonis, Reinkemeyer will help customers drive their digital transformation initiatives forward with the Celonis Execution Management System and core process mining technology. He will help Celonis customers design and incorporate EMS Centers of Excellence to drive process excellence and unlock execution capacity. He will nurture the Celonis customer and process mining community by creating a Senior Advisory Board and an EMS Expert Council for the sharing of best practices and expertise in process mining and business execution.
“Lars is a true pioneer in execution management and process mining and we are thrilled to have him join our leadership team,” said Alexander Rinke, co-CEO and co-founder of Celonis. “This is one of those magic opportunities where the process expert becomes the teacher, and our customers will all benefit from Lars deep expertise and insights in applying process mining to drive execution results.”
Lars Reinkemeyer, VP Customer Transformation at Celonis, commented: “Joining Celonis is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to follow my passion and enable organizations to unlock execution capacity and transform the way they operate. I was attracted to the world-class leadership team at Celonis and the next evolution of its market leading process mining technology to the Celonis Execution Management System.”
Munich-based Reinkemeyer holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne and is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and lecturer at Stanford University. He is an advisor to the IEEE Task Force on process mining and regular speaker and chairman at international conferences.