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Since January 2005 Dr.-Ing. Andreas Schwolen-Backes works at PLATH. Since 2022 he is CEO and CTO of PLATH GmbH & Co.KG. Since 2018 he was Managing Director of Business Division of S&I resp. RRS. He is member of PLATH’s executive board since 2013. He had several roles as CTO, Director Signal Products, Director Project Management and Project Manager.

In parallel, he was lecturer for University Kempten from 2010 to 2016. He did his Doctoral Thesis in RF Technologies and studied Electrical Engineering. He served the German Bundeswehr’s “signal troops” and “command & control systems” from 1990 to 2003, which he left in the rank of a Captain. He is a member of the AOC.

He is an Air Force Academy graduate, has a Master’s degree in Mathematics at Milan Cattolica University and a Master in International Strategic Studies.
His Operational experience comprises multiple combat flights over Kosovo and former Yugoslavia as part of NATO Allied Force Operations, further more he took part to the ISAF NATO Mission as DCOS for Stability Operations of R.C. West, Afghanistan. He worked for about 1o years at the Italian “Flight Test Center” on several weapon integration and projects, operational test, and evaluation activities.

Gen. Pederzolli worked in Air Staff and General Defence Staff respectively dealing with Operational Requirements and International military policy and strategy.
Within the military intelligence enterprise, he worked as Deputy Chief of Military Intelligence for Policy until his promotion to Major General in 2023, when he took the Commanding position of the Italian Defense Joint Intelligence Center.

Jonas Pedersen is the Managing Director of Tuco Marine Group, a Danish company specializing in the design and manufacture of lightweight, high-performance vessels utilizing advanced composite materials such as carbon fiber. Under his leadership, Tuco Marine has developed the ProZero series, which includes Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) designed for both commercial and defense applications. Notably, Tuco Marine collaborated with Ørsted to construct the prototype Ørsted USV, an autonomous vessel for offshore measurement campaigns. Additionally, Jonas has overseen partnerships integrating autonomous systems for subsea asset inspection, such as the collaboration with EIVA to combine Tuco's ProZero USV with EIVA's remotely operated towed vehicle technology.

Gregor Zowierucha has taken over the responsibility as CEO of Plath GmbH on June 1st, 2024. As graduate from Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg in Industrial Engineering, he held various management and executive positions in the German Defence Industry inter alia Executive Vice President Sales at Rheinmetall Electronic Solutions.

He looks back on two decades as an German Air Force General Staff Officer including operational deployments and assignments in the German MoD.
Gregor is married with four kids.

Heiko Fimpel is Director Presales at PLATH (joined 2020), with over 15 years of experience in systems engineering, communication technologies, cyber security and aviation certification.
After his studies of Electrical Engineering with focus on Information and Communication Technologies, he has started in aviation sector working for large development projects as e.g. the Airbus A380 and A400M program and crossed Automotive, Railway and submarine domains working through SILVER ATENA Engineering GmbH.
Besides the projects themselves, his major achiements have been the standardization activities for Unmanned Aerial Systems and Wireless Communication Standards in Brussels. In combination with his experience in setting up, implementation and training of cyber security standards for industrial system developments and the time heading an EASA Design Organisation in Hamburg merges perfectly with the topic of unmanned autonomous Intelligence systems.

Antoine Vignol has been working at INNOSYSTEC GmbH in Salem since 2022. After his military training at the French Army Military Academy of Saint-Cyr and his academic degree (MA) at the University of the German Federal Armed Forces, he served in the French armed forces and the French intelligence agencies. Today he works as a pre-sales manager at INNO. Thanks to his extensive domain experience, he acts as a product consultant for our customers in the intelligence and military sectors. From requirements elicitation to customer support and support in project management and implementation of product training: For our customers Antoine Vignol is not only a contact, he´s a sparring partner at eye level.

Cesare Del Vecchio has spent his last 18 years in IPS side-by-side with tier 1 LEAs and Intel Agencies worldwide, supporting them in OSINT, COMINT and SIGINT capabilities and technologies. Today he is responsible for the Business Development at IPS providing actionable feedback to the operational needs of our customers.

Dr. Frank Langmann has many years of international experience in the development as well as product and portfolio management of EW and SIGINT systems. He has worked with military land, sea, and underwater systems, as well as airborne platforms. He has experience in leading complex large programs such as FCAS and Pegasus. Today, he is head of airborne mission systems as well as company-wide responsible for data fusion and sensor resource management capabilities.