Helmut Fink complements management board of EXASOL

Helmut Fink takes up the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at EXASOL. With his many years of experience, Fink shall strengthen the global positioning of marketing and partner business as part of the management board.

Nuremberg, February 14th, 2014 – EXASOL, manufacturer of the analytical database EXASolution, expanded their management board with the addition of Helmut Fink. Beginning January 2014, he will fill the position as COO and be responsible for the global positioning of sales, marketing, services and partner business within the scope of the global growth strategy.

Born in Graz, he has been working in the IT industry since 1998. During this time, he worked for 15 years for SAP, where his last position was EMEA Vice President Strategic Business Development and Innovation. Amongst other things, he was responsible for the launch of the SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA. EXASOL especially profits from Fink’s relevant experience in matters of strategically positioning the international business.

“It was a perfect time for my decision”, says Helmut Fink, COO of EXASOL. “Not only was I convinced of the outstanding development of EXASOL and the technically mature product, I could also see, how renowned customers such as XING, Zalando and Cacau Show really profited from EXASolution. That motivated me to transfer.”

“With Helmut Fink, we won over a great manager with many years of experience”, says Aaron Auld, CEO of EXASOL. “He complements our management team and takes up an important position to strengthen our sales and marketing. I’m sure we made the right decision in adding him to our team.”

About EXASOL AG

EXASOL AG is one of the leading manufacturers of analytical database systems. Its scaleable software “Made in Germany” can be found in the areas of data business, customer analytics, Loading...operational BI, Loading...advanced analytics and data warehousing. With their appliance and cloud solutions, EXASOL AG customers are able to make effective decisions and gain a significant competitive advantage.

The company was founded in Nuremberg in 2000 and has three subsidiaries in Brazil, in the United States of America and in the United Kingdom. Customers from around the world rely on the technologies from EXASOL AG. These include companies such as Cacau Show, King.com, XING, Sony Music, Olympus, media control, Zalando, IMS Health and Webtrekk.