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Dr Jochen Göttelmann

Critic · DISC type C
VP Business Unit IT ("Airline CIO") Lufthansa Group at Lufthansa
📍 Bodenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Dr. Jochen Göttelmann is the VP of Business Unit IT and "Airline CIO" for the Lufthansa Group, responsible for global IT operations and digital strategy. With a Ph.D. in mathematics, his award-winning career includes leadership roles at Allianz Global Investors and Credit Suisse. He is recognized for driving major digital transformation and IT modernization projects.

He is passionate about bridging the gap between technology and real-world operations, personally participating in flight and ground crew activities to gain firsthand experience. He values peer networking and actively participates in CIO forums to exchange insights on resilience, innovation, and leadership. A 2017 newsletter lists him as a high-altitude tour consultant for the Mainz chapter of the German Alpine Club.

As a senior IT executive, he spent a day as an "additional crew member" on a flight to better understand daily operations.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
VP Business Unit IT ("Airline CIO") Lufthansa Group
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Bodenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Personality Overview

How Dr shows up

ROI Driven
Negotiator
Information Seeker

They prefer to analyze logically and value objective facts over emotions. It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms. Unless the value is proven by data, they are unlikely to value fancy features.

Priorities

Topics Dr cares about

Digital Leadership
Recognized as the "European Digital Leader of the Year" for implementing projects that had a profound impact on his company.
Business Resilience
He emphasizes that resilience is more than fixing IT incidents, focusing on prevention, detection, and recovery across all business processes.
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Career

Work history

2-2026
VP Business Unit IT ("Airline CIO") Lufthansa Group
Lufthansa
2-2023 - 1-2026
VP IT Lufthansa Airlines (CIO) & Lufthansa Group Operations IT
Lufthansa
7-2015 - 2-2023
VP Information Management Lufthansa Cargo (CIO)
Lufthansa Cargo AG
4-2003 - 6-2015
IT Manager Germany; Head of Business Application Management Investments & Operations Europe
Allianz Global Investors
4-2000 - 3-2003
Head of IT Product Development (Credit Suisse Financial Planning Solutions)
Credit Suisse
In the press

Media appearances

CIO-Update: IT bei der Lufthansa - moderner und resilienter. Featured in VOICE
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#78 - Lufthansa Cargo’s Accelerated Leap into Digital Amid Covid-19: The Complete Case Study as shared by Jochen Gottelmann. Featured in Future Insights
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Education
1988 - 1998
Diplom-Mathematiker; Dr. rer. nat.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
1994 - 1995
Mathematik
University of Valencia
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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