Dr Jochen Ruetz

Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Managing Director of GFT Technologies SE

Biography

Administrative Board

Dr Jochen Ruetz has been a member of the administrative board at GFT Technologies SE since August 2015.

Driving GFT forward since 2003

Dr Jochen Ruetz has been CFO of GFT Technologies SE since 2003, initially as a member of the Executive Board of GFT Technologies AG, and since its transformation into GFT Technologies SE in August 2015 as an Executive Director and Member of the Administrative Board. He is responsible for finance, IT, human resources, legal, purchasing, audit, investor relations and mergers & acquisitions.

Before joining GFT

Before joining GFT in September 2003, Dr Jochen Ruetz served for three years as managing director of STRABAG BRVZ Bau-, Rechen- und Verwaltungszentrum GmbH, which brings together all of the commercial activities of the STRABAG Group. In this position, his responsibilities included group and project management accounting, bookkeeping, information administration, finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

Before this, he was in charge of group management accounting at STRABAG AG. Dr Jochen Ruetz started his career in corporate development at Deutsche Bank AG in 1993.

Education

Dr Jochen Ruetz completed a degree in business administration at the University of Regensburg in 1994. He went on to receive his doctorate in 1997 from Cologne University through a part-time study programme.