About us

Philipp founded QPES in 2007 and initially acted as interim manager in the software and mergers & acquisitions sector before becoming Managing Partner in 2014, realigning the company’s focus on the systems integration business around OpenText and SAP solutions and Cloud services. Since 2022, he has been serving as Speaker of the Executive Board and oversees the strategic direction and commercial prosperity of the company. Philipp's drive for innovation combined with a dedication to partner and customer satisfaction, led him to successfully develop the company to become OpenText’s worldwide biggest extended consulting workbench with competencies across the majority of OpenText, SAP solutions and Cloud services.

Before founding QPES, Philipp was managing business development, marketing and sales teams in Switzerland, Europe and worldwide as much as being a co-founder, shareholder and board member of various start-up and scale-up companies. In 2022, Philipp was also founder, co-founder and speaker of the executive boards of Cirro Cloud Solutions, a public cloud service provider, Fortuna-Service, a ServiceNow system integrator and computational method advisory firm and the Just-Faster Group, a corporate service providing company.

Philipp Sander,
Speaker of the Executive Board

Kalin has an extensive background in the IT sector having held various Project and Change management, Team leadership, Sales and Account management roles in the past. With experience spanning domains such as Pharma, IT, Procurement, Packaging, Telecoms, ERP/CRM implementations, F&A and being comfortable working in matrix environments, he was a great fit for OpenText UK, where he has managed a portfolio of projects since early 2022.

In 2023, Kalin took on a role as a Member of the Executive Board at QPES building upon his experience and overseeing various domains with the view of strengthening the position of QPES as a technological partner of choice.

Kalin Hristov
Member of the Executive Board

I joined QPES at the beginning of 2022 as SAP Master Coach and I have been on a roller-coaster ride ever since . My initial role has changed and developed on multiple occasions ,from SAP domain responsible to Engagement Manager ,Technical Lead , Project Manager and now I am a Member of the Executive Board and one of the three members of QPES AG’ management. 

In my numerous roles I have had the opportunity to collaborate with internal consultants and colleagues , Competence Centers ,System Integrators ,OpenText and SAP and ,of course , customers. I accepted the challenges that were thrown down at me and I embraced with excitement all the opportunities to learn and develop my skills . It pays off to be adventurous ,hard-working and dedicated!

Melania Joja-Gaman
Member of the Executive Board