Helmut Krcmar

Helmut Krcmar (born December 16, 1954) holds the Chair for Information Systems in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany since 2002 with a joint appointment to TUM School of Management. Krcmar served as Dean of the Faculty of Informatics from 10/2010 until 09/2013. In July 2018 he was elected Vice Dean TUM School of Management and Founding Dean TUM Campus Heilbronn.^[1] He is academic director of the SAP University Competence Center @ TUM. Krcmar has supervised more than 100 Ph.D. students. He is also speaker of the directory board of Fortiss GmbH, Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for Software and Systems.

He is a member of the Data Protection Board of Deutsche Bahn and serves on boards of companies in the IT sector. Krcmar was co-initiator of "CIO Circle", a network of nearly 1,000 chief information officers and was instrumental in launching a new EMBA^{[clarification needed]} program together with the EuroCIO network. He is Co-Chairperson of the German National E-Government Competence Center and serves as Chairperson of the Research Committee of Münchner Kreis. He is founder of the IT consultancy Informations- und TechnologieManagement Beratungsgesellschaft, and co-founder of the spin-offs RETIT, Qupe, Tür an Tür Digital Factory.