Managing Board of the Amadeus Fire AG
The Management Board currently consists of three members – the Chairman of the Management Board and the two Chief Operating Officers for Personnel Services and Training.
All members of the Management Board were appointed by the Supervisory Board in accordance with Section 84 AktG and are presented individually below.
Robert von Wülfing
Chief Executive Officer
born 1972, Nationality: German
In 2000 Robert von Wülfing started his business career with Amadeus Fire AG after graduating in business administration at the university Mannheim. Initially he was acting as investor relations manager and assistant to the CFO. Between 2003 and 2007 Robert von Wülfing worked as senior consultant with Greenwell Gleeson GmbH, a subsidiary of Amadeus Fire AG. After a short time of self employment as interim finance manager Robert von Wülfing switched to the pharmaceutical company Nycomed. Between 2008 and 2012 amongst others he was acting as director of business controlling, Germany, CFO of Nycomed Pharma AG in Switzerland and at least director commercial services DACH.
In 2012 Robert von Wülfing returned to Amadeus Fire AG as CFO. In this capacity he is responsible for the divisions finance and accounting, controlling, human resources, IT, legal and internal audit, since 2014 additionally for the business segment training. In 2019 he became the spokesperson of the board of managing directors and was appointed Chairman of the Management Board in November 2020.
Dennis Gerlitzki
Chief Operating Officer Personnel Services
born 1976, Nationality: German
Dennis Gerlitzki studied business administration with a special focus on marketing and technology management at the University of Lüneburg and finished his studies with a diploma. In 2003 he started his business career with Amadeus Fire AG as an executive assistant. Between 2005 and 2007 he worked as Senior Consultant and later as Area Manager in the Amadeus Fire branch in Hamburg.
From 2008 on he was for 10 years the regional director for all branches in the area of southern Germany. He has been a member of the Executive Board since 2019 and is responsible for the Personnel Services division in his role as Chief Operating Officer.
Monika Wiederhold
Chief Operating Officer Training
born 1969, Nationality: German
Monika Wiederhold holds a degree in mathematics (TU Darmstadt) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA, Hult International Business School).
After periods of employment in the USA and Uruguay, she began her career in aviation in 1995 as a simulation expert for flight planning and reservation systems at Lufthansa AG in Frankfurt / Main. Mrs Wiederhold has held several top management positions within the Lufthansa Group in the areas of Corporate Strategy, Product Management, Innovation, Crew Scheduling, Marketing & Sales.
In 2017, she started as Chairwoman of the Management Board of Amadeus Germany GmbH at Amadeus IT Group S. A. and was initially responsible for the travel agency business in Central and Eastern Europe and, from 2019, the airline business. From 2021, as Executive Vice President, Mrs Wiederhold built up the global ecosystem initiatives to shape the travel ecosystem of the future: Sustainability, safe travel, mobility, data, API interfaces and innovation. Most recently, she was responsible for Global Marketing and Digital Transformation at Amadeus IT Group S. A. She also represented Amadeus IT Group S. A. in Germany, including as a member of the Tourism Advisory Board of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
Since November 2024, Monika Wiederhold is a member of the Management Board of the Amadeus Fire Group and responsible for the Training segment in her role as Chief Operating Officer. She actively participates in various national and international networks, particularly in the areas of digital innovation and the platform economy.