EUROPE and build a future IT infrastructure .
“ My first task was and remains the execution of the carve out and the ramping up of the IT department entirely to the creation of an independent company altogether in HENSOLDT ”, he says .
“ This means building up all the business functions and all the other support processes such as IT . The challenge here , was that this was happening all at once and not as part of a long-term strategy , or from a baseline because everything was and is being created from scratch .”
HENSOLDT was formed from Airbus , specifically the company ’ s defence electronics activities . In 2017 , under the name HENSOLDT , which comes from the German pioneer of optics and precision mechanics Moritz Carl Hensoldt , the company embarked on an ambitious carve out journey .
As CIO , Schreck is tasked with creating not only an IT infrastructure for an entire company , but one that will
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