Management Team

Chief Executive Officer

Roland Hoelscher joined arcplan in 1993. As Marketing Director, he was responsible for the market introduction of arcplan's first software solution, inSight, in 1994 and he established the U.S. subsidiary, arcplan, Inc. in 1997. Roland served as its CEO & President, responsible for corporate development and strategies in North and South America until he returned to arcplan Europe in 2003. Appointed as CTO in 2004 he was responsible for the product directions of arcplan. Previously, he held many integral positions with arcplan including Director of Application Development and Director of Marketing. Roland was appointed CEO of arcplan in 2011.

Prior to his employment with arcplan, Roland worked for a consulting organization, conducting portfolio analysis to support the strategy development of financial intitutions. His versatility and various positions at arcplan and other companies have made him an expert in the business intelligence field. Roland holds a degree in Economics from the Westfaelische Wilhelms University in Muenster, Germany.

Chief Financial Officer

Frank Zimpel, qualified bank officer and graduate in business economics, has more than 19 years of professional experience, with 16 years in management positions. Prior to joining arcplan in 2009, Frank was Managing Director at denkwerk GmbH, an internet agency in Germany focussing on branding, online advertising, e-commerce solutions, and technology services. While successfully leading denkwerk for seven years, he was instrumental in the restructuring of the agency for growth and profitability. He had a leading role in establishing denkwerk as one of the Top 15 Internet Agencies.

From 1997 to 2001, Frank led the finance department of Uncle Sam GmbH & Co. KG, an international sportswear company where he was responsible for the integration of new companies. He also held key positions at Toyota Kreditbank GmbH and Schäfer Sportswear GmbH.

Senior VP Engineering, CTO

Hans Peter Wolff started his career at arcplan in 1997 in the engineering department. In his early years as software engineer and team lead he worked on several extensions of the back-end system, application logic and the arcplan clients. Hans Peter developed the communication interfaces for MIS Alea and IBM Cognos TM1 (Applix at this time), among others. He continued with the Web Service Connector for arcplan Analytic Services – an instrumental part of arcplan's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Since 2004 Hans Peter has been responsible for the engineering department and the concepts and roadmap of all arcplan products. Under his direction, the team created the 64 bit, unicode, and XML adjustments that are crucial components of all arcplan products today. Hans Peter was promoted as CTO of arcplan in early 2011. He holds a master's degree in physics from the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg / Breisgau, Germany.

 

Senior VP Global Marketing

Tiemo Winterkamp joined arcplan in 2009 as VP of Marketing for EMEA/APAC and brings 20 years of software and hands-on marketing experience to arcplan. Since 2010 he has been responsible for global marketing of arcplan's BI and planning products. From 2006 to 2008 he was an independent consultant focused on Go-To-Market strategy support and advisory for high-tech IT companies. Before that, he co-founded VoiceObjects in 2001 – today owned by Voxeo – positioning the company's service execution platform in the new and emerging phone-based self-services market as VP Strategy & Market Research.

From 1997-2001, Tiemo held management positions at MicroStrategy in Germany and at their US headquarters. He has also worked at Informix, Software AG, and Ingres. Tiemo holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.