Lawo's CTO Office will drive your business strategy and integration

The so-called Office of the CTO of Theirs arises to promote innovation and developments, present and future, with integrated solutions that can be marketed, in addition to guaranteeing initiatives aimed at achieving the corporate strategy.

The rapid growth of Theirs in recent times, as well as the need to provide their clients with innovative responses to new workflow models, has led to the creation of the CTO Office, made up of experts from all areas and dedicated exclusively to achieving strategic objectives general of the company's product and R&D organizations.

“The Office of the CTO will implement the execution of our customer-centric strategy throughout the organization,” he explains. Phil Myers, CTO of de Lawo (in the right image)-. We are well aware that it is no longer enough to supply products that include audio, video, networks and control infrastructure. Customers expect more and more perfectly integrated solutions, rather than technically robust sets of hardware and software.”.

As this manager emphasizes, “Lawo clients have work to do, and we have to provide Intuitive and efficient tools and workflows that cover the entire range of products of the company. “Close integration is the cornerstone of our strategy”.

With this vision, Myers states that “Lawo solutions have to be powerful, easy to use, quick to deploy and technically aligned. To achieve, we will ensure that all parts of the organization are synchronized and working towards a common goal. The CTO Office is responsible for drive this convergence within the company”.

The new CTO Office is made up of Axel Kern, Senior Director of Cloud and Infrastructure Solutions (left image), who will also be in charge of the development of Home, Lawo's core media infrastructure platform.

Axel Kern brings more than thirty years of experience in the broadcast and professional audio industry, the last few years working at Lawo. With an MScEng in media technology, He has held various positions as a product manager in the broadcasting sector.

Senior Director of Workflow and Integration, Lucas Zwicker, takes on the task of promoting innovation with new technologies, while exploring its application in current and future products. This especially involves harmonizing workflows and ensuring interoperability across the entire Lawo portfolio..

Zwicker joined Lawo in 2014, after previously working as freelance in the live sound and entertainment industry for several years. He has a degree in event technology and electrical and computer engineering from the Munich University of Applied Sciences. (Germany).

Henry Bourne, senior director of experience and design, He is responsible in the CTO Office for the human factors of all Lawo technology., making sure it works well for people.

After also working as freelance in UK recording studios, Bourne has focused the last ten years on the broadcast environment and joined the Lawo team in 2019.

Finally, Jeremy Courtney, senior director of coordination and vice president of the Office of CTO, is responsible for overseeing and facilitating all aspects of Lawo's R&D and product management activities..

With twenty-eight years of experience in broadcast engineering, Courtney has held various R&D roles, product management and business leadership, all focused on video and image processing.