We are LzLabs.

Thilo Rockmann has more than 20 years of experience in the information and communications technology industry. Thilo has served as president and CEO, managing director, group systems director, and technology consultant with many notable companies, including Accenture, Sun Microsystems, Easynet (BSkyB), and JME Ventures. He holds an MSc in physics from the University of Hamburg, an MBA from University of Wales in Cardiff, and a certification in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors in London.

As a senior people development lead and coach, Kristine is passionate about attracting talent and helping people grow.

She has a track record in designing learning programs and engagement initiatives with focus on continuous improvement and authentic leadership. As a certified coach she builds connection and trust to help people become their best possible self.

Prior to obtaining a role in the HR field, Kristine built up a large agile software development organization and managed several global business transformation projects in the insurance and travel industry. Over a decade of hands-on project delivery shaped her approach to leading others and provided her with a wealth of experience in the collaboration area.

She started her career as a project manager in system integration and process optimization at Accenture.

Originally from Belgium, Kristine has lived in Switzerland for almost two decades.

Andrew Askew is responsible for the global sales, and presales teams at LzLabs, overseeing the sale of LzLabs software to organizations across the world. He has over 20 years of experience as a leader in the enterprise software space, including senior leadership roles at IBM, CA Technologies and Broadcom.

Most recently, Andy spent over ten years leading CA Technologies’ mainframe solution sales and customer adoption functions across EMEA. Subsequent to the Broadcom acquisition of CA Technologies in 2018 Andy worked in the EMEA leadership team supporting the successful integration of CA and go to market plan.

Jan Jaeger was the co-inventor of Hercules, the mainframe emulation hardware. He has been programming on Unix systems since 1981, and IBM mainframes since 1984 for clients in the financial, oil, and airlines industries. Jan has extensive experience in the fields of systems programming, security, and information risk management. He has more than 30 years of experience working in large organizations, including Accenture, BT, Shell, ING Bank, IBM, and Ansett Airlines of Australia and a proven track record of delivering projects successfully by being able to translate very complex technical issues into practical business applications.

Christian Wehrli manages LzLabs’ product delivery team and is responsible for post sales, project office & support teams in the areas of product implementation, testing, architecture, support and project management. Prior to joining LzLabs in 2014, Christian spent two years at IBM running a strategic outsourcing team. He previously spent seven years at UBS as a Mainframe Engineer and Architect.

Nick is responsible for the portfolio and product management function at LzLabs. In his role he will connect the dots between Development, Delivery, Sales, and Marketing and drive a customer focussed outcomes.
Nick worked in the midrange software industry for over 20 years. Nick has worked with teams all over the world in the areas of solution delivery, training, consulting, and pre-sales. Nick is skilled in UX design, design thinking, agile and lean development, product management, and digital transformation, as well as psychology and neuroscience relating to product leadership.

Tobias Braun is responsible for the Technology Consulting Services Division at LzLabs. With over 10 years of history in mainframe workload modernisation at IBM, PKS and LzLabs, Tobias combines a broad technical know-how with strategic thinking and thus realises modernisation strategies together with companies across all industries.

Mark Cresswell is Executive Chairman, overseeing development of the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®. He is also Founder and Chairman of Scalable, a private software asset management company. Prior to his position at Scalable, Mark served as CEO of NEON Systems, Inc. which specialized in mainframe integration software, and he was also managing director of Framesoft, a private Swiss company that developed solutions for the investment banking market.

After an academic career, Stephan Murer held global chief architect/CTO roles at UBS and Credit Suisse, with responsibility for global architecture, technology and innovation management. Today, Stephan serves on a number of technology company boards in Switzerland and abroad, runs his own consulting business and teaches at various universities.

Frank Mang built a 30-year career with Accenture (1990-2020). As technology division lead, he managed a USD1-billion unit with more than 3500 employees across the DACH region. He also led the European Nearshore development center network and the EUR100-million global technology business for a German global insurance group. Frank served in Accenture’s Europe, Africa and Latin America technology board and was a lecturer for software project management at Technical University of Munich, where he earned a degree in computer science.