Management

Dr. Gerd Große
Chief Executive Officer

Gerd is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cognidata GmbH.

His research interests are in artificial intelligence methods for industrial applications. He studied computer science in Braunschweig and Edinburgh. Afterwards he did research in this field at Stanford, Darmstadt (phd) and Pisa.

Gerd's professional career started at Lufthansa Systems where he designed and implemented a variety of IT systems for flight planning and revenue management. Subsequently he was appointed to head of outsourcing activities at Gedas, the former Volkswagen subsidiary for IT.

Gerd is voluntary working as Chairman of the non-profit organisation Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers e.V. (GFFT).

Christian Seidemann
Director PARASUITE

Christian studied computer science for 5 years with stops in Gießen, Dublin and Zielona Góra (Poland). He holds a Dipl.-Inform. (FH) degree from the university of applied science in Gießen and a master of science degree from the University of Zielona Góra.

He started his career at Cognidata in 2006 as a software engineer and researcher with focus on decision support systems.

Since 2009 he is mainly responsible for the maintenance and further development of our PARASUITE software. He also accounts for the management and execution of software projects.