Team

Constantin Kontargyris is one of the founders of CYRACO GmbH. He was previously Executive Vice President ‘Corporate Information Technology’ at TÜV Rheinland (Group CIO) with responsibility for the group’s global IT strategies and for the creation and operation of digitalization models.

Until 2016, Constantin Kontargyris had been a member of the Global Player Initiative of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). As a founding member of the federal IT association VOICE e. V., he was a member of the association’s Executive Board until 2017.

Ralf Wilde is one of the founders of CYRACO GmbH. He was a member of the Executive Board of TÜV Rheinland e. V., and as a Division Director of TÜV Rheinland AG he was responsible for the Products business stream worldwide. Ralf Wilde lived in Japan from 1983 to 2010, where he helped grow TÜV Rheinland Group Asia and its Product Safety and Quality business stream, which became the group’s largest in 2017.

Among other positions, Ralf Wilde is a member of the Advisory Board for the Science and Innovation Alliance Kaiserslautern e. V. (SIAK), the leading network for digital transformation, high-level interdisciplinary research, and tomorrow’s innovations in Germany.

Tobias Hofmann is a founder and Chief Marketing Officer of CYRACO GmbH. He has been active in the fields of communication, marketing, public affairs, public relations, and advertising for more than 25 years and has been the owner and Managing Director of the advertising agency POLIVOX Werbeagentur GmbH for some 20 years now. He and his company serve large SMEs, government ministries, associations, and political parties. Communication is both cause and effect, and all the signals we send provoke a reaction. That is what makes communication so exciting — for CYRACO too.

Carina Wagner is the Chief Commercial Officer of CYRACO GmbH and can look back on more than 15 years of experience in sales and IT. During the years she spent working as an executive assistant to high-level management, she not only honed her top-notch skills, but also gathered valuable management experience. Now she is deploying this experience and her passion for organization and working with people as the person responsible for the strategic orientation of CYRACO GmbH.

Joaquín Calvo is the CTO of CYRACO GmbH. Joaquín has a master’s degree in particle physics and over a dozen years of experience in the IT industry, where he has worked both for large international corporations and for highly innovative start-ups. Joaquín has spent the past six years specializing in the digitalization and scaling of start-ups. As an IT architect and CTO, Joaquín has successfully overseen the technical development and strategic road maps of multiple start-ups in various countries, including Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Brazil.

Timo Kannengiesser is the Chief Operation Officer of CYRACO GmbH and an expert in mathematical optimization and artificial intelligence (AI). Timo completed a work-study program with Bayer AG in the field of mechanical engineering and has already submitted his doctoral thesis for mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University.

Konstantinos has experience in software engineering more than 20 years.

He is responsible for design, develop and maintain software applications for Android OS devices, smart phones and smart glasses.

He also participates in the development of the server side, creates algorithms, applies existing ML techniques and tools. Finally, he contributes to writing proposals for funds.

Software engineer, specialized on backend technologies, implementing computer vision AI models focused on object detection.

Ioannis has an integrated master in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Unity developer specialized in Augmented Reality. Responsible for development of AR libraries and applications for smartphones and smart glasses.

Nikolaos Symeonidis is a Quality Assurance engineer, and has over 15 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications field.