About ACTICO
Helping businesses globally to make smarter day-to-day decisions that drive higher levels of growth and attain a competitive advantage.
Our Company
ACTICO at a Glance
ACTICO is a leading international provider of software for intelligent automation and digital decisioning. The company provides best-in-class software and tools used across multiple industries enhancing day-to-day decision-making and end-to-end automation.
Used to manage risks, fulfill regulatory compliance obligations, prevent fraud, enhance digital customer engagement and optimize operations, ACTICO solutions combine human knowledge and artificial intelligence with powerful automation technology. The adaptive, cloud-architected software helps companies to gain agility, achieve business excellence and attain higher customer satisfaction.
With more than 20 years of experience delivering to organizations globally, ACTICO has a proven ability to handle large volume of data and build reliable, robust and scalable applications. ACTICO technology is used directly by companies on almost all continents, ranging from small/mid-size to Fortune 500 companies. Our team operates through fully owned subsidiaries in North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
ACTICO in numbers
The Facts
25+
Countries
100%
Project Success
50,000+
Users
Management Team
Meet ACTICO's Senior Executives
Hans Jürgen Rieder
Chief Executive Officer
Hans Jürgen Rieder
Chief Executive Officer
At the ACTICO helm is CEO Hans Jürgen Rieder. His goal: to help this medium-sized RegTech company from Lake Constance progress as a world-class solution provider meeting the needs of global banks, insurers and financial service providers. A quest on which this business graduate combines managerial expertise, a passion for technology and an impressive range of finance experience too, having worked at Société Générale and advised at PwC. He also held leading positions at SAP AG for several years, including most recently the post of Senior Vice President Global IT – Application Services. Similarly, his remit as Vice President of Group Head Applications at ABB Ltd. included overseeing all global applications. Hans Jürgen Rieder was also Group CTO at UBS AG before taking the top job as ACTICO CEO in January 2020.
Thomas Knöpfler
General Manager and Chief Portfolio & Project Officer
Thomas Knöpfler
General Manager and Chief Portfolio & Project Officer
Thomas Knöpfler oversees the strategy as well as the project implementation of the Compliance and Credit Risk business units at ACTICO. After graduating in business administration, his first career steps were taken in an international consulting firm and then, as now, he strove to optimise how specialist departments and IT cooperated by leveraging technical solutions. After coming on board at ACTICO – then Bosch Software Innovations – he was tasked with marketing and selling software solutions for banks, financial service providers and insurance companies. Since 2015, he has been Managing Director and since March 2023, Chief Portfolio & Project Officer at ACTICO GmbH.
Thomas Meyer
General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer
Thomas Meyer
General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer
For Thomas Meyer, work means keeping ACTICO earnings on an even keel – by managing sales and marketing, for example. And this professional has proven his worth multiple times in this field for SaaS, cloud and financial services companies – including Salesforce, IPSoft and Tableau in financial services to name but a few. After graduating with business administration, he familiarised himself with the software industry in various roles at IBM Germany, most recent of which Global SW Management. Team spirit and trust come first for him when helping others advance to jointly agreed goals, as amply reflected by a great track record with clients and as a football coach and manager. Since March 2022, he has applied his exceptional insights to ACTICO as Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer.
Claus Petersen
General Manager & Chief Financial Officer
Claus Petersen
General Manager & Chief Financial Officer
Claus Petersen manages ACTICO’s finances as CFO. Petersen is a highly accomplished finance professional with more than 17 years of experience in various industries and global assignments. He combines strategic thinking with digital savvy and excellent stakeholder engagement skills. Petersen has a proven track record in disruptive industries – and in both established publicly traded companies and entrepreneur setups. The finance expert is also an esteemed leader and earned an Executive MBA from IMD in Lausanne in 2013. Since January 2023 he has been General Manager and CFO of ACTICO GmbH.
Stefanie Hertkorn
Head of Human Resources
Stefanie Hertkorn
Head of Human Resources
Stefanie Hertkorn, qualified in business administration, leads our HR and admin team at ACTICO after years spent honing her expertise in the field as HR Business Partner with the ZF Group und LBBW Immobilien Management GmbH. Stefanie and her team provide solid support to all ACTICO colleagues, even before they start work with the company and on an ongoing basis via professional development, even long after the induction phase. A certified process consultant and coach for change management and mediation, she ceaselessly strives to grow and improve to master her remit – the benefit of which is felt throughout the ACTICO team. Stefanie Hertkorn has been Head of HR at ACTICO since July 2017.
Timo Jakob
Chief Technology Officer
Timo Jakob
Chief Technology Officer
In his role as Chief Technical Officer of ACTICO, Timo Jakob is responsible for ACTICO’s core business: the technological development of the platform and the solutions. He gained the necessary experience as Deputy CTO at Infront. Prior to that, the graduate engineer of electrical information technology had earned his merits in several areas at vwd Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste GmbH, later Infront, as Director Software Development. His career demonstrates stamina and loyalty to the team and the company. Timo Jakob has many strengths: many years of practical experience with visionary foresight, strategic calculation and profound knowledge of development management in the RegTech sector, as well as its secure operation in highly available and highly scalable cloud environments. Since October 2022 Timo Jakob is CTO at ACTICO.
Stefan Opferkuch
General Manager Americas Region
Stefan Opferkuch
General Manager Americas Region
Stefan Opferkuch manages ACTICO’s business in North and South America and played a key role in setting up the Chicago location. A computer science graduate, he came on board at ACTICO in 2008, when it was still known as Innovations Softwaretechnologie GmbH, after experience which included working as a software consultant at SE-RT, with clients including nCelesio AG, Bosch, IBM and the Sparkassenverband Baden-Württemberg. But academia is where his career first got underway – after studying, Stefan Opferkuch engaged in research at Stuttgart University’s Institute for Software Technology. Stefan Opferkuch has been General Manager of ACTICO Corp. in Chicago since November 2015.
Ruben Alink
General Manager APAC Region
Ruben Alink
General Manager APAC Region
Ruben Alink manages ACTICO’s operations in the Asia Pacific market. With over 20 years of exceptional leadership and success in the FinTech industry, Ruben has delivered Core Banking Solutions and Credit Decisioning Solutions with renowned companies such as Temenos and Experian. His deep understanding of the Credit Decisioning space, particularly in APAC, provides valuable insights to ACTICO. With a strong presence in Asia for over a decade, Ruben has fostered robust client relationships across multiple countries, driving growth and innovative solutions for ACTICO in the APAC region. Now Ruben Alink is General Manager for APAC at ACTICO Pte. Ltd in Singapore.
Certificates: We are excellent! You are safe.
We let ourselves be tested so that you know: We are secure – and with us, so are you.
- We want our products and services to meet all relevant legal and regulatory requirements and the expectations of our customers. That is why we pay high attention to the quality of our products, services and processes. ISO 9001 certifies that we meet this goal.
- We understand service as a living relationship in which we listen very carefully to our customers so that we know exactly what they need. This enables us to provide them with precisely tailored solutions. Our satisfied customers speak for us just as much as ISO 20000-1 for service management.
- We offer risk solutions ourselves – such as the Credit Risk Platform. It goes without saying that we manage potential risks proactively. We ensure that even in the event of disruptions, the most important business activity continues to operate. ISO 22301 for Business Continuity Management gives us the seal of approval.
- We have earned the trust of our customers on the one hand because we keep our high quality promise, and on the other because we protect their secrets – as humans and technically. ISO 27001 for information security testifies that we treat your data and information with trust and protect it responsibly.
Tell your auditor: Our compliance projects comply with IDW PS 951!
The scope of this audit is the customer-specific implementation and further development of the Compliance Suite. The certificate uses a standard issued by the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany to test the quality of service providers who implement internal controls for other companies. In the process, Type 1 checks the adequacy of the ICS and the implementation of controls relevant to the service. We already completed this part in 2021. Type 2 certifies that we have actually implemented these controls and are implementing them on an ongoing basis.