Michael Schäfer has been Managing Director of MDS since January 2022 and acts as COO, CTO and CFO. The qualified electrical engineer can look back on more than 30 years in the IT sector and has experience in the fields of industrial automation, image processing, the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0.

He has managed numerous major international projects during his career and most recently headed the "IIoT Application Factory" and "Business & IT Transformation" areas of the Global Competency Center at Software AG in Darmstadt. Global Competency Center. Sein Credo: "The Mobility Data Space enables society and companies to develop the mobility of the future"