Jens-Gero Boehm

Strategic GSI Alliances: Leading GSI EMEA team directing high-growth alliance strategies for Tier-1 GSIs across EMEA driving a multi-million-dollar rolling pipeline Digital Sovereignty Leadership for partners: Drive the adoption of digital sovereignty strategies across the partner ecosystem, positioning sovereign cloud frameworks directly to partners and making structured, compliant sovereign offerings available for partners to monetize Embedded & OEM Business Scaling IHV Partnership Integration

Executive DACH Channel Leadership: Held strategic responsibility for SUSE’s channel sales organization across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the companys largest and most mature European market region Strategic Revenue $ Market Share Growth: Led a senior team of Channel Account Managers and Partner Executives to consistently outperform regional revenue targets, driving market expansion for SLES for SAP Applications, Rancher Prime, and Edge infrastructure

CEE Ecosystem Leadership & Transformation: Directed the channel partner strategy across Central & Eastern Europe, managing a high-performing team of Partner Executives to scale 2-tier channel distribution (VADs, VARs, MSPs, and Solution Providers). Rancher Ecosystem Integration: Spearheaded the regional channel integration and enablement following SUSE’s acquisition of Rancher, successfully training and certifying partner networks to monetize enterprise cloud-native solutions

Sales Manager for SUSE Partner and Service Provider Sales: DACH Ecosystem Build-Out: Built and scaled SUSE’s DACH channel organisation from foundational stages into a mature, high-yield two-tier ecosystem (VADs, VARs, MSPs), establishing the channel as the primary growth driver for the region Team Leadership & Performance: Led and mentored high-performing team of Partner Executives, consistently surpassing regional revenue targets and driving market share expansion across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Manager for Partnersales in Central Europe Central European Channel Establishment: Managed SUSE partner sales across Central Europe, leading regional channel strategy to identify, recruit, and onboard top-tier data center solution providers, VARs, and systems integrators Executive Relationship Building: Established trusted, C-level relationships across key regional partner accounts, aligning executive stakeholders on SUSE’s long-term commercial strategy and open-source data center vision

Manager for key alliances like IBM, Lenovo, IBM Channel partners and many other partners in Central Europe

Business development for Novell's solutions in retail sector; Recruitment of retail partners in EMEA (ISVs, CSI, OEM partners) Retail Edge & Infrastructure Strategy: Led EMEA partner alliance strategies for the retail sector, driving adoption of SUSE’s Linux solutions to power next-generation Store-in-a-Box and edge computing platforms Global ISV & IHV Ecosystem Alignment Store Digitalization & Modernization Pipeline & Revenue Generation Industry Thought Leadership

Responsible and building up key alliances of SUSE Linux AG in EMEA like e.g. IBM, HP, EDS, Siemens Business Services, Accenture and more Strategic Account Growth: Managed top-tier EMEA systems integrators and distributors, driving joint account mapping and co-selling motions for complex enterprise infrastructure deals Channel Infrastructure: Designed initial partner engagement models and incentive programs that established long-term trust and high partner retention across the DACH market

Regional Manager for SUSE Linux Rhein-Ruhr Office manager for professional services and sales manager in Sankt Augustin (Bonn) Germany: building up the SUSE office and leading the office with SUSE Professionals Focus in Data Center Automation, Infrastructure setup with Linux based environments Hardening of Linux based systems, building enterprise grade Linux environments

Teamleader for Deutsche bank internal project consulting, quality assurance and acceptance certification for software developments and introduction into the UNIX production area of Deutsche Bank.

- Focus on SAP R/3, database, system management consulting - project manager in Financial Services Sector - Project Manager for SAP R/3 Basis introduction - Data Center Automation

Diploma thesis in "Edge Detection in Medical Volume Data"