Dr. Henning Schulze-Lauen joined enercast in 2017 as Chief Operating Officer in order to make its advanced technological solutions fit for the next growth phase, and became Chief Executive Officer in 2018.
Henning brings many years of international executive experience in the high-tech business to the job. As Vice President of Product Operations at Trufa Inc., Palo Alto, California and Heidelberg, Germany, he has delved deeply into the world of software-as-a-service and big data. Prior to that, he led the $300m support and maintenance business at Lawson Software, St. Paul, Minnesota, and was Managing Director of Parsytec Computer GmbH in Aachen, Germany, and Seoul, Korea. In addition, Henning has advised the executive management of both small companies and public corporations on structural and product issues.
Henning studied mechanical engineering at Aachen University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was during his time at M.I.T. in the early 1990s when he got first involved with climate change and renewable energies. He later received his Ph. D. from Aachen University where he also became Chief Engineer and head of the department for production automation of the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering.
