Dr. Franz Semmernegg (born 1968) is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Kapsch Group and Kapsch Group Beteiligungsgesellschaft as well as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and CFO of Kapsch BusinessCom. He is also chairman of the supervisory board of Kapsch TrafficCom and active in various functions for additional companies of the Kapsch Group.

Functions.

• CFO of Kapsch AG (since October 2001)
• CFO of Kapsch Group Beteiligungs GmbH (since April 2005)
• CEO (since April 2010) and CFO (since March 2003) of Kapsch BusinessCom AG
• Chairman of the supervisory board of Kapsch TrafficCom AG (since June 2005; member since June 2002)
• Member of the executive management of Kapsch Smart Energy GmbH, Kapsch Cashpooling and Hedging GmbH, Kapsch IT Services for finance and industries GmbH and Kapsch S.R.L. (Romania)
• Member of the executive management of CALPANA business consulting GmbH
• Deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Austria Telecommunication International AG

Career.

Prior to joining the Kapsch Group, Franz Semmernegg worked for the technology company Schrack. After holding management positions at Ericsson Austria (1998) and Schrack Seconet (1997), he oversaw the successful management buy-out of Schrack BusinessCom by Ericsson Austria in 1998. From 1999 to September 2001, he was a member of the management board of Schrack BusinessCom AG.

Franz Semmernegg has a doctorate in business administration from the Karl Franzens University of Graz. He began his professional career at the accounting firm Wirtschaftstreuhandkanzlei Nidetzky, where he specialized in tax consulting, reorganizations, company valuation and financing.

Borenich studied commerce and economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and, while working, completed the Executive MBA program at the Wien & Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota). In addition, he has completed postgraduate training courses at the London Business School, Insead, Harvard and Stanford.

Jochen Borenich, MBA became a member of the Management Board at Kapsch BusinessCom in 2010. In this function, Borenich is responsible for the Sales, Marketing and International areas. Together with Board Chairman Dr. Franz Semmernegg, he runs one of the leading ICT service provider and digitalisation partner in Austria and Romania.

Functions.

• COO of Kapsch BusinessCom (since 2010)

Career.

He began his professional career at debis Systemhaus, a predecessor of T-Systems Austria. In 2006, he was appointed a member of the executive management, first as Sales Vice President Telecommunication, Media & Utilities and subsequently as Sales Director Corporate Customers at T-Systems Austria.