Frank Sempert Profile
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Frank P. Sempert |
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Frank Sempert is Senior Program Executive for Saugatuck Technology, helping to guide the overall growth of Saugatuck’s services in Europe. In addition, Mr. Sempert will lead the firm’s business development efforts in Central Europe, with a focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Since 2002, Mr. Sempert has been an independent Management Consultant, advising a variety of both small and large European technology providers concerning sales & marketing strategies, setting up off-shore development, identification and selection of venture investors, and occasionally acting as an interim CEO. He is a very active board member for the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) in Germany.
From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Sempert created and ran a Frankfurt-based company, SEC Consulting AG, initially specializing in Y2K and Euro projects, later in Post Merger Integration Management. Prior to this, he built up and headed Gartner Group’s Central European operation for more than five years, after a position as Managing Director of Central Europe for Informix. Still earlier in his career, Mr. Sempert held various executive leadership and sales and marketing positions with Olivetti, WANG Germany, Ericsson Information Systems and Teamco.
Mr. Sempert wrote “1999”, a book focusing on Y2K. He is the author of numerous articles and a frequent keynote speaker. In addition, he advises CIOs of large and medium companies on strategic IT issues.