EXTEDO Management Team

Martin Schmid joined EXTEDO in October 2010 as Managing Director to head the global Marketing and Sales Department. In addition, he has assumed responsibility for the Business and Corporate Development branch of the EXTEDO Group.

Martin has more than 15 years of experience in the areas management consulting, marketing and sales. Prior to EXTEDO, he worked as an independent consultant for several customers within the consulting industry, as well as almost five years for a US-based solution provider for data management, technical documentation and publishing. Throughout his career, he has successfully managed several international customers and projects within the industrial sector.

Stephan Bruehl joined EXTEDO as Managing Director in August 2019. He brings more than 22 years of experience as a CEO and member of the Board of Directors mainly within the information and telecommunication industry.
Stephan graduated with a degree in Business Administration and then worked in Marketing and Sales in leading information and telecommunication companies before taking over management roles.

Schei joined EXTEDO in 2020. He has almost 30 years of business knowledge, around 25 years of experience in sales and marketing in the IT- and services industry and 3 years in material management.

He is well-versed in technical and social guidance as well as analytical and structured procedures. His strengths lies in the areas of business thinking and acting and he is very experienced in solution selling and key account management.

Prior joining EXTEDO, he was owner and General Manager of a sales outsourcing provider. Before that, he was Member of the Board and responsible for Sales, Marketing and Consulting at one of the leading German service providers for Technical Documentation and Translation. Furthermore, Schei was Department Head and responsible for Material Management at a plastic compression - and injection molding company. And he was responsible for Marketing and Sales at one of the leading software solution providers for Computer Aided Quality Solutions.
Schei holds a degree in Business Administration.

Keith joined EXTEDO for the first time in 2012 and re-joined again in 2020.

He is a seasoned and international experienced executive and is building and leading customer obsessed service and support teams for more than 30 years, mainly with in the life science, information and telecommunication industry.

At EXTEDO Keith leads a diverse and cross-functional team of highly skilled Subject Matter Experts and is responsible for providing a consistently high level of customer satisfaction through the delivery of responsive, high quality and innovative services and support.

Prior joining EXTEDO, he held leading customer serving roles at Siemens, Lucent Technologies, Lion Bioscience, Accenture, Telefonica and Amazon Web Services. Keith holds a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Kyle joined EXTEDO in 2012 and brings over two decades of experience include 10 years in enterprise software for life science. He attended University of Delaware and graduated with a business degree. 

Hans-Ulrich joined EXTEDO in November 2017 as Vice President Product Development. He has almost 30 years of experience in defining and implementing release-based products. Before joining EXTEDO, Hans-Ulrich worked for several software companies within the life sciences industry. During this time, he developed a passion for lightweight, agile processes, e.g. according to Scrum.

Before starting his professional career, Hans-Ulrich graduated in computer science at the Karlsruher Institute for Technology.

Gerhard leads the Regulatory Competence Center, which serves as the backbone for EXTEDO’s regulatory competence and ensures the life sciences business operates compliant. Gerhard is responsible for all aspects of regulatory intelligence at EXTEDO which includes eCTD, IDMP, PV, PP... and supports EXTEDO to explore new innovations and markets.

Gerhard joined EXTEDO in 2002. With now more than 25 years of life sciences industry expertise, he has a deep understanding of the underlying regulatory business processes of the pharmaceutical industry and the national competent authorities.

Gerhard graduated in analytical chemistry at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria and holds a doctorate degree from the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Martina joined EXTEDO in August 2017 and heads our team of finance, controlling and legal specialists.

In her 25+ years in finance, controlling and accounting, she managed, transformed and developed a diverse set of functions in US-international public software corporations with European responsibilities, as well as family-owned German companies, including the preparation of the IPO of a pharmaceutical company.

Martina finds job satisfaction in fortifying our financial solidity while at the same time supporting our aggressive growth ambitions. She holds a degree in Business Administration (Diplom-Betriebswirt, FH) from University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, Germany, and is a TÜV-certified Quality Manager.