Our Team
The ProAKT Team has been together since 1992. The extended NGBT GmbH team in Munich and Frankfurt now consists of
- Norbert Thiel, CEO and Owner
Norbert started working with ATS in the mid-80s while studying Electrical Engineering. His outgoing approach has been to focus on customer experience since the beginning, and he has been responsible for many strategic orientations of the unit. His country focus is on Italy, Germany and the Americas.
- Gerson Kurz, CEO and Owner
With a university degree in both computer science and an MBA, Gerson has been the main ProAKT architect since the beginning. He has spent many hours in labs around the world integrating ProAKT into diverse environments, while at the same time driving customer meetings with his background knowledge on the business processes. His country focus is on France, the UK, North America and the Nordics.
- Anke Breidenbach, Accounting
Anke joined the team in 2008 to make our accounting processes more professional and has kept the team together - both mentally and financially.
- Wolfgang Thaler, Senior Software Engineer
Wolfgang focuses on large scale customers of ours that need a dedicated support resource. His efforts have won the team awards as the best external supplier for several of them.
- Klaus Kragler, Senior Software Engineer
Klaus is our ATS device specialist. Right from the beginning his focus has been on hardware and how to make it tick.
- Martin Eichhorn, Senior Software Engineer
Martin is our newest team member. He brings many years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on achieving results with excellence in coding.
- Volker Thiel, Senior Product Manager
Volker studied industrial engineering and has been new to the company since May 2018. He will complement our face to the customer as project- and productmanager. Almost 30 years experience in IT customer service, technical customization and migration in various banking projects and practices as technical trainer are his expertise.
Starting September 1st 2017 we have a fully owned subsidiary in Spain, NGBT Spain SRL. Its staff members are:
- Alberto Turiel, Senior Software Engineer
Alberto has been working for many years all levels of software lifecycle, from development to support to product management to sales. He has always been in direct contact with customers worldwide.
- Jorge Robles, Senior Software Engineer
Jorge has been working with the integration of peripherals into banks and financial institutions for many years.
- Jorge Martinez, Senior Software Engineer
Jorge has been working the last ten years in software to make the communication between customers and financial devices easier. He has worked with many customers all over the world helping them to integrate devices into their systems and providing them support whenever it was needed.
- Oscar Valtueña, Senior Software Engineer
Oscar is a senior expert for financial peripherals and devices with more than 10 years experience (device handling, monitoring, remote access,..). In the last 20 years he spent a lot of time in various development projects at customers all over the world (including interoperability, multiplatform, communications themes).