Simon Ulmer joins Board of Management of TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH

As part of long-term succession and skills transfer planning, Simon Ulmer (41) will take on the role of a second Managing Director at TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH (TÜVIT) with effect from 17 November 2025, complementing Dirk Kretzschmar. As an internationally experienced executive with strong expertise in business administration, public administration and scientific degrees in molecular chemistry and physics, Simon Ulmer will strengthen the current management team of the Digital & Semiconductor Business Unit with numerous competences.

Simon Ulmer brings international experience and extensive expertise in the field of cybersecurity. He completed his education in the USA and at the French universities École Normale Supérieure and Université Paris-Saclay. He is also a graduate of Corps des Mines, an elite training programme for engineers in France who take on key roles in industry and administration.

After working in the diplomatic service, including as Counsellor for Economic Affairs at the French Embassy in Germany, his career took him into the world of business. Simon Ulmer was Vice President of the Energy, Utilities & Transportation division at ATOS, an international IT service provider, and most recently headed up the Digital ID/Cyber Products business unit at Eviden, an ATOS company.

Dirk Kretzschmar, Managing Director of TÜVIT, explains: "With Simon Ulmer, we are gaining a young but already highly experienced manager with an international network and exceptional technological expertise. His broad expertise in the areas of cybersecurity, digitalisation and critical infrastructures will play a key role in shaping our strategic development. Together, we want to further expand TÜV Informationstechnik's position as a leading provider of trustworthy IT security services and provide new impetus for innovation and growth. I am very much looking forward to working together and the joint projects that lie ahead of us."

Simon Ulmer adds: "I have been fascinated by science and technology all my life and feel that the purpose of the TÜV NORD GROUP is very appealing: To create trust in technology. The role of second Managing Director of TÜVIT fits perfectly into my professional development. I want to contribute to making our digital and connected world safer and help shape the upcoming technological revolutions: From quantum technologies and machine intelligence to autonomous systems, photonics, nanoelectronics and beyond."

Dr Dirk Stenkamp, CEO of TÜV NORD AG, explains: "With Simon Ulmer, an internationally qualified manager and expert in the field of cybersecurity and especially post-quantum cryptography is joining us from Eviden/ATOS. The plan is to systematically develop Mr Ulmer over a period of 1 to 1.5 years in order to prepare him to take on more extensive responsibilities."
With this appointment, the management of TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH will in future consist of Dirk Kretzschmar and Simon Ulmer.

TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH (headquartered in Essen, Germany) is a renowned IT security service provider and an independent testing institute and laboratory for IT security and cyber security in digitalisation. TÜVIT has been accredited worldwide since 1995 and creates trust in security measures at the level of business processes, data, applications and technologies through vulnerability analyses, audits and evaluations. TÜVIT is a powerful partner in detecting and responding to cyber attacks and ensures rapid restoration of business capability. In this way, businesses, public authorities and operators of critical infrastructures strengthen their regulatory compliance in the areas of confidentiality, integrity and availability as well as their holistic cyber resilience and IT security in the supply chain.

Together with ALTER TECHNOLOGY, TÜVIT forms the Digital & Semiconductor business unit. The business unit is a key pillar of the TÜV NORD GROUP, a knowledge company that has stood for security and trust worldwide for over 150 years. Engineers and IT security experts in more than 100 countries ensure that companies become even more successful in the networked world.