Klaus Salchner

Klaus Salchner is a highly accomplished technology executive with over three decades of experience in the technology industry. With a strong background in executive leadership and technology management, Klaus has a proven track record of leading large teams and driving innovation in cloud solutions.

His expertise includes managing geographically dispersed teams across North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as extensive experience working with offshore teams in countries like India, Vietnam, and South America. He has built cloud solutions using Amazon AWS and MS Azure, ensuring high uptime SLA's and managing teams of up to 250 technologists.

Klaus is known for creating a Center of Excellence that transformed engineering practices within a large technology group, leading to increased automation, adoption of SecDevOps culture, re-platforming for faster deployment times, and achieving Continuous Delivery mode. He has also provided thought leadership in democratizing data access and driving consumer experience improvements, resulting in significant audience and revenue growth.

As a leader, Klaus promoted cultural changes towards autonomous teams, focused on outcome ownership, incremental experiments, and customer success. He has managed substantial engineering budgets, increased brand awareness, and spearheaded successful tech recruitment programs across North America. Klaus has managed initiatives across organizational boundaries and gained recognition for delivering enterprise software to prestigious clients and Fortune 100 companies worldwide.

Klaus Salchner's educational background includes studies in Telecommunications and Electronics, along with executive training in communications and employee motivation. He has held various leadership positions in prominent organizations, such as Chief Technology Officer at APOLLO Insurance, VP Engineering at realtor.com, and VP of Engineering at BuildDirect Technologies, among others.