Michael Heinrich

is CEO of d-labs GmbH, a Design consulting company based in Potsdam and part of the Hasso Plattner Ventures portfolio. Prior to d-labs, he was a VP with SAP where he co-led the SAP design services team.

Having started his career with SAP as a consultant and consulting manager in 1990, he gained his first Silicon Valley start-up experience in 1997 as one of the founders of Pandesic, an SAP-Intel joint venture in the B2C e-commerce space. He holds a PhD in computer information systems from Berlin University of Economics and a BS in artificial intelligence from Donezk State University (Ukraine).