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Michael Flunkert and Waios Kastanis have shared the management of the software company since 1995. In order to meet the growing demands of the market, the Management expanded in 2020 to include additional members and thus also valuable competences. Since then, Peter Hönle as Head of Sales and Services, Dagmar Henkel as Head of HR and Lutz Krämer as Head of Products complement the management. Partnership and communication at eye level is just as important to the management as a high level of professionalism and courageous progression. Get to know your quality partners!
Member of the Management
Founder and Managing Director
Michael Flunkert, MBA (Master of Business Administration), studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. During this time, he already founded a system house that focused on the development of IT tools for quality assurance. In 1994, Flunkert founded Babtec Informationssysteme GmbH with the aim of providing all manufacturing companies with a standard software solution for quality management. As a shareholder and managing director, he actively promotes a positive error culture in quality management and puts the guiding principle of making the world a little better every day through quality into effect.
Member of the Management
Managing Director
Waios Kastanis started his career in Sales at Ikoss GmbH, a subsidiary of Thyssen AG. In 1989, he took over the management of the Wuppertal branch of softmetal GmbH within the Thyssen Group. In 1991, Kastanis moved to the Stuttgart ERP company Strässle Informationssysteme GmbH. Since 1995, Kastanis has been a shareholder and managing director of Babtec Informationssysteme GmbH. He has made trust and cooperation at eye level his management maxim.
Member of the Management
Sales and Services Division
Peter Hönle studied product engineering at Furtwangen University in the Black Forest. After graduating, he began his career in international Sales in a German corporation. By becoming a managing director in a software company, he came into contact with quality management, which excited him and has accompanied him ever since. Since 2002, he has held management positions in Sales at Babtec. He carries the company's guiding principles into his daily work with passion and drive.
Member of the Management
Products Division
After graduating with a degree in engineering from the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Lutz Krämer began his career in the IT department of a German corporation. He then took on various management roles in medium-sized software companies, sharpening his eye for the needs of the industry. He has held management positions at Babtec since 2006 and has been responsible for the Products division since 2014. In doing so, he places a special focus on creating scope for self-responsible action in his team and acting with a holistic view of the needs of all stakeholders.
Member of the Management
Human Resources
Dagmar Henkel studied business administration at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Afterwards, the graduate in business administration gained extensive management experience in a renowned software company. After almost 20 years of successful HR work, she took over as head of the HR team at Babtec in 2019. True to her motto of the four M's “Man muss Menschen mögen” (engl.: You have to like people), she now puts people at the center of everything she does at our company.