ARIS Announces Key Leadership Appointments and Renewed Strategic Focus
Saarbrücken, Germany –30 June 2025: ARIS, a global leader in business process management and transformation, today announced a series of senior leadership appointments that mark a new chapter of growth, innovation, and market expansion for the company.
Leadership Appointments
Karl Wagner has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of ARIS, effective immediately. A cornerstone of the ARIS organization for over 30 years, Karl has consistently driven innovation and upheld the company’s reputation for technical excellence. His promotion underscores ARIS’ long-standing commitment to Saarbrücken and its foundational technology leadership.
Joining the executive team as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) is Fadi Naffah, who comes to ARIS from Celonis, where he played a critical role in building and expanding the Process Mining category across France and the Middle East & Africa. Fadi brings deep go-to-market expertise from senior roles at SAP, Salesforce, and Citrix.
Vikas Seth has been appointed Chief Product Officer (CPO). Most recently serving in the same capacity at IDnow, Vikas helped lead significant growth and product expansion. His extensive background in engineering, product innovation, and agile development—alongside deep AI expertise—will be vital in shaping ARIS’ next-generation product strategy.
Ralf Hartings joins ARIS as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from United Internet AG, where he held the Group CFO role. Ralf will lead financial strategy and operations while helping optimize internal processes and enable operational excellence across the organization.
Earlier this year, Tom Pressley was named Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), bringing extensive experience from Relesys and other high-growth software companies. Tom will be instrumental in strengthening the ARIS brand and amplifying its market presence.
Driving Toward a Bold Vision
With this strengthened leadership team, ARIS is accelerating its mission to become the foundational process architecture for the world’s largest enterprises. The company is uniquely positioned in the BPM market, serving highly regulated industries with complex requirements through its robust modeling, mapping, mining and analytics capabilities.
Ongoing R&D investment continues to expand ARIS’ capabilities in rapid deployment frameworks, and AI innovation, including the ability to securely leverage Agentic AI to improve performance and efficiency while ensuring control and compliance.
About ARIS
ARIS, the Process Intelligence leader, helps organizations turn their processes into value. By managing the entire process lifecycle with a single, integrated suite, ARIS enables companies to define, analyze, simulate, optimize and control their processes.
ARIS is consistently recognized by Gartner and Forrester as a leader in Process Intelligence and Process Mining and is trusted by thousands of businesses across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and others to improve and reinvent their business.
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