Well, welcome to what you've been heard.

This evening we've got Thomas Wolfe and another IT leader who really wants to talk to us some about IT leadership and what it takes and how we get there and

some of the opportunities that are presented to us. So Thomas, if you take a moment to introduce

yourself and tell us a little about you. Of course. Thank you very much, Mike. So Thomas Wolfe,

director of Deutsche Corporation. We are a U.S US subsidiary and business up for the Americas of Doits Global, which is actually

the oldest engine manufacturer in the world.

We're turning 162 this year.

And here in the US, we're focusing on engine sales, full application service, and decentralized energy, energy generators.

And we are the regional IT execution within a global governance.

So our corporate IT is based in Germany.

And so that really requires us to work closely with corporate IT in Germany, but also with the

subsidiaries based in the Americas.

So a question immediately comes to my mind, and that is, what level of autonomy do you

have within the IT world as the director of IT in the Americas when you've got a corporate headquarters and Germany.

So this is actually a challenge for us, but also a kind of opportunity, balancing between

global governance and local execution. Of course, we are now in a kind of situation where

those globally switch over to a business unit structure

and defined regional business hubs.

And this is a kind of opportunity for us to gain more opportunity,

but of course, within the global governance,

the centralized IT and Germany governs.

And the biggest challenge there is really the work throughout the time zones, the cultural

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