KARL-HEINZ STREIBICH	
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Chairman of the Management Board and Group Executive Board
Karl-Heinz Streibich, born in 1952, has been Chief Executive Officer of Software AG since September 2003.
In this role he is also responsible for the following functions: Corporate Communications, Global Legal, Global Audit, Processes & Quality, Global Partner Management, Corporate Office and Top Management Development.
Throughout his career, Karl-Heinz Streibich held various management positions in Information and Communication Technology. Among others he was Head of Marketing Operations of ITT Europe in the UK, Member of the Board of debis Systemhaus, as well as deputy Chairman of T-Systems where he was responsible for the merger of debis Systemhaus IT activities with Deutsche Telekom.
Karl-Heinz Streibich studied Communication Engineering in Offenburg and visited postgraduate courses at Harvard University, Stanford University and London School of Marketing. 
He is a member of the Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsrat) at Dürr AG and at Deutsche Messe AG and holds several honorary positions including Member of the Presidency of the German IT Association BITKOM, Member of the Executive Committee of the regional economy initiative Frankfurt Rhein Main e.V., Co-Chairman of the working group “Innovative eGovernment services” within the framework of the German Chancellor’s IT summit and he is a co-founder of the German Software Cluster of Excellence.