Claus Gründel has been appointed General Manager of the “Embedded IoT Solutions” division. Claus has taken over the position from Swissbit CEO Silvio Muschter, who served in a dual capacity since the business unit’s founding in 2019. Silvio will now continue his focus on corporate management. Claus will concentrate his efforts on the ongoing development and expansion of the Swissbit Security portfolio, particularly emphasizing the integration of software and services for securing IoT infrastructures.
Claus Gründel is a management consultant with more than 20 years of experience in the security sector. Before joining Swissbit, he worked as an independent consultant for ProSieben Group and Barclays Bank. In the managed PKI space Claus worked for Digicert, among other industrial customers and medical device manufacturers. Before that, the 49-year-old held executive positions for many years, including at Giesecke+Devrient (G+D), where he contributed to the development of the software and service business for security applications and was in charge of furthering the cyber security portfolio’s growth. Claus has a degree in industrial engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and a Master of Law (LLM) in Mergers & Acquisitions. He is married and has two children.
With Claus Gründel, we have gained an extremely experienced security expert. In addition to having an in-depth understanding of market requirements, he also has the entrepreneurial knowledge to build new service models in the IoT environment,” says Silvio Muschter, CEO of Swissbit AG.