Press Release

Ansgar Eickeler Appointed General Manager for Central & Eastern Europe at Board

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 - Bad Homburg, Germany

Board International appointed Ansgar Eickeler as General Manager for Central & Eastern Europe. In his new role, Eickeler is responsible for Board's businesses in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe.

The market leader in Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management, and Advanced Analytics applications, Board International, continues its growth strategy in Central and Eastern Europe under the direction of Ansgar Eickeler. 

Board International, provider of the all-in-one platform for Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management, and Advanced Analytics, appointed Ansgar Eickeler as General Manager for Central & Eastern Europe. In his new role, Eickeler is responsible for Board's businesses in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe, succeeding Jessica Venturini as she becomes Chief Revenue Officer in the international organization. 

Eickeler's mission is to drive Board's growth in Central and Eastern Europe and to ensure the success of its customers. He will focus on the fact that companies are investing in modern data analysis tools to profit from the significant changes and opportunities in digital data. 

Board is already very familiar with Eickeler's work: from 2016 he was Sales Director for the DACH region, turning it into one of the leading sales regions in just two years. The business graduate can look back on over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He climbed his way up the ranks of responsibility, holding operational and strategic management positions at leading US software manufacturers, achieving sustainable success for companies such as Platinum Technology, Business Objects, Kofax, and POWA Technologies. 

"My aim is to work with the Board team to significantly increase sales in Central and Eastern Europe again this year and to sharpen our profile in such a way that Board becomes synonymous with state-of-the-art decision-making," says Ansgar Eickeler.

"With the appointment of Ansgar Eickeler as General Manager for Central and Eastern Europe, we are sending out a clear message about the importance of the region to our business development," says Jessica Venturini, Chief Revenue Officer at Board International. "Ansgar Eickeler will now dedicate himself to enhancing the huge potential we see in this market. His experience in helping companies grow and his approach to creating successful sales structures will help us implement our ambitious growth strategy."

About  Board International:

Board is the #1 decision-making platform for organizations of any size. Founded in 1994, Board International has enabled more than 3000 companies worldwide to rapidly deploy Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management and Predictive Analytics applications on a single unified and programming-free platform. The Board platform allows companies to achieve a single, accurate and complete view of business information and a full control of performance across the entire organization, from strategic formulation down to operational execution. Thanks to its programming-free toolkit approach, global enterprises such as H&M, KPMG, DHL, Mitsubishi, NEC, Puma, Siemens, Toyota have rapidly deployed end-to end decision-making applications in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions. Headquartered in Chiasso, Switzerland, and Boston, MA, Board International has 21 offices around the world and a global reseller network. Board has been implemented in over 100 countries. www.board.com