Management
Nihat Arkan, Chief Executive Officer
Nihat joined SA2 Worldsync in 2008 from co-founding company Agentrics, where he was senior vice president of global customer management responsible for all regional strategies, business development, customer acquisition and operations.
Nihat has extensive experience and working knowledge in the global economy, having supported customer strategies in Asia-Pacific, North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Throughout his career, he has resided in the U.S., Switzerland, Turkey, Japan and Germany.
Nihat has an MBA in international business management from Averett College, Danville, Virginia, U.S., as well as a degree in international finance.
Rolf Stark, Executive Director
Rolf has more than 20 years experience in the field of IT-based business process consultancy. For 18 years, he has had executive management responsibilities in various subsidiaries of GS1 Germany. From 2002 he was responsible for the international expansion of SA2 Worldsync`s data management solutions (former SINFOS) and thus significantly helped to make SA2 Worldsync one of the leading solution providers worldwide in the area of product data management.
Rolf Stark holds master of business administration diploma with a specialization in marketing and market research.
Lorraine Knight, Regional Director, Western Europe
Lorraine has over 20 years of retail industry experience in supply chain, sourcing, acquisitions and special projects focused on item data management.
Before Agentrics, Lorraine served as B2B manager at Tesco, the largest retailer in the U.K. While at Tesco UK, Lorraine was part of the team that founded the Worldwide Retail Exchange GDS offering. She also held positions at Sainsbury’s and Boots.
Gina Baker, Regional Director, Americas & Asia
Gina Baker heads the SA2 business unit in North America and Asia and is responsible for sales, solution implementation and account management. She works closely with the customer community to define new offerings and partnerships that will support growing needs and offer significant return on investment.
Gina Baker joined SA2 Worldsync from Agentrics, where she led professional and implementation services for the GenSync business unit. She has over 10 years experience in supplier onboarding across a variety of B2B ecommerce solutions.
Prior to Agentrics, Gina Baker was the manager of supplier solutions at Metiom (formerly Intelisys Electronic Commerce) responsible for building supplier adoption programs for the Ford Motor Company, Texas Instruments, the State of Maryland, and Commonfind (an education marketplace). Gina Baker graduated from Salisbury State University with a BS degree in marketing.
Burkhard Lorry, Regional Director D.A.CH.
Prior to SINFOS, he held leading positions in EDI and master data management at Mosaic Software AG and Pro DV Software. Burkhard has about 15 years IT experience in strategic sales, project management and business development. He made his studies in information management at the universities of Kaiserslautern and Worms.
Dirk Bräuninger, Executive Director
Dirk has more than 20 years of IT experience in the fields of software development, database administration, project management and key account management. He started his career as an IT consultant at Cap Gemini Germany in 1986 and debis Systemhaus. In 1999, Dirk moved to PIRONET NDH as key account manager involved in web-based application development.
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