ARNO THEIß

Member of the Group Executive Board
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Global Consulting Services 

Arno Theiß, born in 1961, was appointed to the Group Executive Board in April 2013 as 
Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Global Consulting Services. Besides this role, he is 
also General Manager of IDS Scheer Consulting GmbH, a wholly-owned Software AG 
subsidiary.

Arno Theiß joined Software AG in May 2006 as Vice President PS Operations. In 2007 his 
responsibility was extended to managing the newly founded company SAG Consulting 
Services GmbH, a Software AG subsidiary, as General Manager. In addition, he was 
appointed as Senior Vice President for PS Region West. As of mid-2012 Arno Theiß took 
over responsibility as Head of GCS Global Delivery. 
Mr. Theiß has many years of experience in leadership positions and began his career at 
Bull, where he worked as Program Director for the Telecommunications department. 
Later he became Resource Manager for the DACH region at Integris (an IT-Service-unit of 
Bull-Group) where he successfully built up the “eSolutions” division. Finally, as 
managing director at Steria GmbH and as Board Member for Steria Mummert Consulting, 
he was mainly responsible for the telecommunication and transport industry as well as 
for outsourcing business.
Arno Theiß graduated in Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences in 
Gießen.