MELOS GmbH, Augsburg (Gessertshausen), Germany, manntz@melosgmbh.de

Andreas Manntz is Managing Director at the MELOS GmbH in Gessertshausen, one of the leading German providers for software for medical and industrial laboratories over the last 25 years. He holds a diploma in Business Administration from the University of Augsburg in connection with a trainee programme at the Siemens AG. He began his professional career at Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG as a Commercial Product Manager, responsible for product development, in 1990 and changed to Sortimo International GmbH in 1993. Seven years later he complemented his academic career with an MBA degree from the University of Augsburg and Katz Graduate Business School in Pittsburgh, before joining MELOS GmbH as Managing Director in 2003.