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Seerene's Mission

Seerene helps to transform software development into a mature engineering discipline by providing organizations an AI-based, data-driven management platform that cuts risks and achieves higher quality, speed and efficiency for software development.

Our Roots

Seerene originated from the Hasso Plattner Institute's (HPI) more than 15 years of academic research into how data on software as intangible, dynamic, and abstract phenomena can be analyzed, visualized and understood. The seminal research project, which dealt with inventing a type of "software cartography", laid the foundation for several additional research projects on software process mining and AI-driven software engineering, which have been the basis for the ongoing partnership between Seerene and HPI.

Dr. Johannes Bohnet, co-founder of Seerene, investigated concepts and techniques of software maps as a starting point for visual software analytics in his dissertation. Today, they form part of Seerene's platform that helps customers to deliver reliable, dependable and affordable software systems on a consistent basis.

Seerene has since been recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor and by McKinsey and Google as B2B Scale-Up of the Year and was selected by Microsoft for its 2018 ScaleUp program. 

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Meet the Management Team

Dr. Johannes Bohnet
Dr. Johannes Bohnet
Founder & CEO

As founder & CEO, Johannes defines Seerene’s vision and strategy, so that the product satisfies the demands of both current and future customer markets. Dr. Bohnet leverages his role as Seerene’s CEO to promote his vision of a network of executives and leading experts dedicated to solving software’s most pressing challenges. Johannes frequently accepts invitations to speak on the topics of software excellence.

Before founding Seerene, Johannes capped off a successful career in academia, where he’d studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Münster, by achieving a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Potsdam. During this time, Johannes led Hasso Plattner Institute’s research group on software analytics and visualization. 

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Marc Hildebrandt
Founder & Chairman

Marc has guided Seerene’s development from the start with a steady hand. He is a passionate company builder, who also believes value creation is tied to social responsibility. He brings more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur to his role as founder and executive chairman of Seerene, including the development and eventual sale of LandXplorer to Autodesk in 2008.

Marc also heads the German Deep Tech Group, which takes a systematic approach in its founding of companies within the space of deep tech. The Group has contributed to Seerene’s progress from its beginning. 

Marc Hildebrandt

Sophia Friederike Hoehn
Sophia Friederike Hoehn
Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Sophia leads Seerene Operations, Legal, Process Excellence and Human Resources. 

Prior to Seerene, Sophia was working as an International Project Manager at Palfinger where she quickly gained a reputation for being able to lead complex projects across eclectic domains. This included M&As with multinational companies across Eastern Europe and playing a pivotal role in the founding and scaling of a successful incubator in Russia. Sophia uses her myriad skills and experience to enable Seerene’s growth. 

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René Freude
Head of Engineering

René leads Seerene Engineering. 

Prior to Seerene, René was working at sprylab technologies, a company providing software solutions for the publishing market with many big enterprises as customers. At sprylab he was in the role of "Head of Product Development". Before this, he had gathered many years of experience as a project manager and software developer. René uses his great skills and experience to enable Seerene’s growth. 

René Freude

Mathias Hoehme Leadership Team
Mathias Hoehme
Vice President of Finance

Mathias runs our global Finance function. 

Prior to Seerene, Mathias served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Finance Director in various companies. He was also Managing Director of a tax consultancy company. Mathias began his career at KPMG, where he passed the tax consultant as well as the German CPA exam in 2005.  

Mathias Hoehme

Oliver Viel Leadership Team
Oliver Viel
Director of Marketing and Business Development
Being responsible for external communication Oliver and his team make sure that Seerene's mission is understood.
 
After finishing his Master's degree, Oliver began his professional career at Hobsons Group and Group GTI, two globally operating corporations, holding international management roles in the field of statistics and IT. After specializing in marketing and sales, Oliver held management positions in specialized IT companies before joining Seerene. Oliver uses his skills and experience in analytics, IT, branding, marketing and sales to convey Seerene’s messages to our sophisticated audience.
 

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Meet our Client Success Expert

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Carsten Rönneburg
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Carsten is responsible for our key accounts. Thanks to his many years of IT experience, he knows how to work in and with complex structures and is the right contact for corporate clients, corporations and consultancies.  
 
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Company History

 

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HPI - Research Partner for Software Analytics

The Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) for Digital Engineering is the leading university for IT systems engineering and software engineering in Germany thanks to its strong research, excellent study programs, extensive industry partnerships and the excellent educational standard.

Seerene collaborates with the HPI on a number of cutting-edge research projects. Seerene will participate as key industrial partner in the new upcoming AI lab for IT systems engineering to be founded at HPI.

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German Deep Tech - Founding Partner

German Deep Tech is an entrepreneurial holding that is focused on building companies and scale their businesses in entirely new ‘deep tech’ categories.

 

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Phone: +49 (0) 331 706 234 0
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