Volker Smid

Volker Smid is an experienced executive currently serving as CEO of Acrolinx since January 2020 and Chairperson of the Board at Exasol since July 2021, overseeing board activities at the publicly traded analytics database company. Smid has held various leadership positions, including Non-Executive Director at Infinigate Group, Member of the Supervisory Board at Searchmetrics, and CEO of Searchmetrics, Inc. from August 2015 to December 2019. Prior roles include EVP Digital and Member of the Executive Board at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Managing Director Germany at HP, and President EMEA at Novell. Smid's career also includes significant positions at Parametric Technology Corporation, where responsibilities encompassed SVP roles across EMEA and AP markets. Smid holds a Diplom in Business Administration and Computer Science from Fachhochschule Wedel, earned between 1982 and 1987.