Team

Constantin Kontargyris is a founder 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 a founder 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.

Andreas Rebetzky is the CIO of CYRACO GmbH. He spent more than 20 years as an executive board member, CIO and CDO with various SMEs including Sto SE , Bizerba , and Exyte AG . Rebetzky has twice been selected as CIO of the year (CIO -Magazin/COMPUTERWOCHE ). Since 2017 he has been an independent consultant with EA Ruby, where he supports SMEs in all matters relating to digitalization. Rebetzky is a co-founder and Presiding Committee member of VOICE e. V., the German association for IT users. He has been a member of the Senate of Economy Germany and of the Senate of Economy Europe since 2020.

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.

Georgios Manolis is the Managing Director of Cyraco Hellas M.I.K.E. in Thessaloníki, Greece, and boasts over 15 years of professional experience in the leadership and management of medium and large-scale IT projects for leading companies in the fields of e-commerce, logistics, and finance.

Anke Otto is a project assistant and works with all aspects of finance. Prior to this position, Anke spent over 39 years with TÜV Rheinland where she served in various roles and departments, including as a commercial clerk in accounting.