Klaus Straub

CEO & Co-Founder at xelerate.tech

Klaus Straub is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in the technology and automotive sectors. Since October 2020, Klaus has served as CEO and Co-Founder of xelerate.tech and CEO and Founder of exadit GmbH. In addition, Klaus has been a Member of the Supervisory Board at Bechtle since May 2023 and previously held advisory roles at Reply and Zscaler. Notably, Klaus was CIO and Senior Vice President of BMW Group IT from April 2012 to October 2020, where Klaus led the agile transformation and focused on enhancing in-house software development. Earlier career roles included positions at Audi AG, SiemensVDO, and Daimler, showcasing a strong background in organizational development and IT leadership. Klaus holds a Diplom in Maschinenbau from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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Plochingen, Germany

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xelerate.tech

We are a Portuguese-German company, driven by the power and opportunities great software products have to empower people and businesses. We establish innovative Software Development Hubs with tech passionate companies, who dare to take on the transformation towards a fully digitized business and want to create an inhouse software development hub. We cooperate with mid to large international companies and build our software product excellence through self-managing, high performance teams. Our core values are respect and trust. This refers to the way we meet, interact and work together as humans. We meet as whole humans bringing out the best in everyone, evolving as a team. Bring your whole self to work. Shape the way innovative software development of the future looks like.


Headquarters

Porto, Portugal

Employees

51-200

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