Celonis Appoints Philippe Mathieu as Go-to-Market Leader for EMEA

MUNICH and NEW YORK, September 12, 2023 - Celonis, the global leader in Process Mining, today announced the appointment of Philippe Mathieu as Go-to-Market Leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as well as Latin America (LATAM) and Asia-Pacific (APAC).

With more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, both in fast-growing start-ups and large multinationals, Mathieu will focus on driving Celonis’ expansion in EMEA, a region he was previously responsible for at Palantir and Oracle.

Celonis has a strong presence in Europe, with customers who are household names such as ABB, Anheuser-Busch InBev, AVNET Europe BV, Bouygues Telecom, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Companie de Saint-Gobain, Delphi Technologies, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, LyondellBasell Industries N.V., Merck KGaA, RATIONAL AG, Siemens AG, Uniper SE, Vetter[1] Pharma, Vodafoneand more. As the new Go-to-Market Leader for EMEA, Mathieu will work closely with new and existing customers as well as Celonis partners to help them unlock the potential of their processes.

Bastian Nominacher, co-CEO and co-founder of Celonis comments: “I am thrilled that Philippe is joining Celonis to lead our Go-to-Market efforts in EMEA, our innovation hotspot with the most product and engineering resources. Philippe has successfully built and scaled teams across large markets, and has tremendous experience in fast-paced, category-defining companies. His mix of leadership and regional expertise will help even more organizations in the region to unlock the potential of their business processes. In turn, making them more efficient and enabling them to realize the full impact of process mining to drive sustainable business value.”

“I am very excited to join Celonis as Go-to-Market leader for EMEA, the birthplace of the company and headquarters of many of our most successful lighthouse customers and early adopters,” said Mathieu. “I will build on my prior experience as CFO and COO and my focus on value generation for customers to help EMEA enterprises capture improvement opportunities across their processes, and execute targeted actions to rapidly enhance process performance. By doing so, customers are able to yield immediate cash impact, improve customer experience and build more sustainable businesses.”

Mathieu comes to Celonis from Palantir Technologies, where he served as President EMEA. Prior to that, he worked at Oracle for more than 15 years, most recently as Executive Vice President of EMEA and JAPAC. While there, he was responsible for overall sales and P&L for Oracle business amounting to $16B in revenue. Mathieu has also held senior management positions at US-based enterprise software companies such as Hyperion Solutions, PeopleSoft, Commerce One and Sybase.

Mathieu’s appointment comes shortly after Celonis was named a leader in Gartner’s® first-ever Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Tools. The report catapulted process mining into c-level consciousness and placed Celonis highest in both axes, Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. In collaboration with its customers and partners, Celonis continues to advance the category, most recently with the market introduction of Object-Centric Process Mining, an innovation providing new perspectives into how businesses run, next-level process intelligence and intelligent automations.

About Celonis

Celonis enables customers to optimize their business processes. Powered by its leading process mining technology, Celonis provides a unique set of capabilities for business executives and users to continuously find improvement opportunities within and across processes, and execute targeted actions to rapidly enhance process performance. This optimization yields immediate cash impact, radically improves customer experience, and reduces carbon emissions. Celonis has thousands of implementations with global customers and is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA with more than 20 offices worldwide. © 2022 Celonis SE. All rights reserved. Celonis, Execution Management System, EMS and the Celonis “droplet” logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Celonis SE in Germany and other jurisdictions. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.