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Martin Fuchs in Charge of ICW Business in Germany
Walldorf, 08/03/2009
Objective – Expand market position: Martin Fuchs (43), Managing Director of InterComponentWare (Schweiz) AG since 2006, assumes responsibility also for ICW's business in Germany and joins the extended Board. He succeeds Dirk Albers (47), who will also join the extended board. Albers will assume responsibility for Portfolio Management.
Fuchs will be taking over Dirk Albers' responsibility for the German subsidiary. He will be orienting business activity more towards added value for the users of eHealth products while initiating new partnerships and building on existing ones. His goal is to expand the market position in the eHealth sector.
His achievements at ICW include the creation of the subsidiary in Switzerland and the successful implementation of the system for cross-institutional unique patient identification (Master Patient Index – MPI) at Hirslanden, Switzerland's leading private hospital group, and at the hospital groups of the Swiss canton of St. Gall.
Fuchs holds degrees in information sciences as well as in economics and social sciences. For 15 years he has been working actively in the IT and eHealth sectors. His years of management experience bear the stamp of the creation of two businesses for providing IT solutions and training he later merged together under the Fuchsgroup AG, and of the time spent in a sales-related position with SAP (Schweiz) AG.
Fuchs will be in charge of the ICW business ventures in Germany together with Head of Officer Matthias Glück (32). Glück began his career at ICW in 2004. He was named Head of Finance in 2005 and Commercial Director of InterComponentWare AG in 2006. Glück studied economics at the universities of Mannheim and North Carolina. From 1995 to 2003 he was Managing Director of a consulting firm for IT solutions in mid-sized businesses.
Albers was responsible for setting up the German subsidiary. In the future, he will be adding his experience to the task of expanding the international orientation of the company. A key role will be the strategic partnership with GE Healthcare, a business division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE). Along with long years of experience in the eHealth market, Albers will also draw on his professional experience abroad with a major international company.
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For more information please contact:
Simona Macikowski
Tel.: +49 (0) 6227 385 38 83
Fax: +49 (0) 6227 385 199
simona.macikowski@icw.de
