Dirk W. Schmidt

GWAVA is a leading provider of Unified Archiving and Messaging Security solutions helping organisations worldwide to reduce storage costs, prevent data leakage, ensure compliance and drive business productivity. +10 million users benefit from a global GWAVA partner network and the GWAVA team. GWAVA Retain is featured in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. The company cooperates closely with further strategic partners such as BlackBerry, Micro Focus, Microsoft and CellTrust.

GWAVA is a leading provider of Unified Archiving and Messaging Security solutions helping organisations worldwide to reduce storage costs, prevent data leakage, ensure compliance and drive business productivity. +10 million users benefit from a global GWAVA partner network and the GWAVA team. GWAVA Retain is featured in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. The company cooperates closely with further strategic partners such as BlackBerry, Micro Focus, Microsoft and CellTrust.

Dirk Schmidt is Vice President Sales & Marketing and General Manager EMEA with Novell Inc. He leads an international team and P/L for the company specifically focused on customer- and partner relationships as well as introducing new leading solutions in the Cloud- and Mobility market.

2 Jahre Tätigkeit als Rechtsanwalt in einer regionalen Anwaltskanzlei bis 1996 und nachfolgend und immer noch zugelassener Rechtsanwalt, aktuell im Bezirk des Landgerichts Arnsberg (Schwerpunkte: Unternehmens-, Steuer und Wirtschaftsrecht) / Mediation

INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy offers a new perspective on strategy formulation and execution. In implementing the tools, concepts and frameworks of Blue Ocean Strategy, businesses create ‘blue oceans’ of uncontested market space to help make the competition irrelevant.

With "Powering Growth" you achieve superior performance through customer-based productive, sustained growth. The program enables a roadmap for significant business growth to new peaks of performance and profitability.

Strategy Execution / Change Management / Business Transformation and Innovation

LEAD is a talent management process designed to identify and accelerate the development of high potential leaders. Participants are nominated are selected based on a rigorous set of criteria. The LEAD program provides an accelerated development and expands the participants professional network.

Exchange Studies to Columbia University NY, USA