GFT Technologies SE announced in addition to his current role, Jochen Ruetz(56), CFO of the company, will become Deputy CEO as of 1 January 2025. He has many years of capital market and business experience and has been CFO of GFT Technologies SE since 2003. The Administrative Board extended Jochen Ruetz's contract once again until 31 December 2029.

Since August 2003 Dr. Jochen Ruetz has been GFT?s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), initially as a member of the Executive Board of GFT Technologies AG, and since the change of legal form to GFT Technologies SE in August 2015 as Managing Director and member of the Administrative Board. He is responsible for finance, IT, human resources, legal, purchasing, audit, investor relations and mergers & acquisitions. Before joining GFT in September 2003, Dr. Jochen Ruetz served for three years as managing director of STRABAG BRVZ Bau-, Rechen- und Verwaltungszentrum GmbH, which brings together all of the commercial activities of the STRABAG Group.

In this position, his responsibilities included group and project management accounting, bookkeeping, information administration, finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Before this, he was in charge of group management accounting at STRABAG AG. Dr. Jochen Ruetz started his career in corporate development at Deutsche Bank AG in 1993.

Dr. Jochen Ruetz completed a degree in business administration at the University of Regensburg in 1994. He went on to receive his doctorate in 1997 from Cologne University through a part-time study program.