Andreas Klare
Career

Career

From a commercial apprenticeship to sales leadership, in the order it happened.

since 05/2024
Head of Sales Enterprise Solutions
MicroNova AG — exclusive go-to-market organisation for ManageEngine (Zoho Group) in Germany

Accountable for the Enterprise Solutions business and for seventeen people, seven of them direct reports including two managers. Go-to-market, partner and sales strategy for the DACH region, and primary contact towards the vendor in India. Built the key account structure with an end-to-end lifecycle model. In 2025 additionally led the monday.com sales team, at peak with overall responsibility for twenty-three people. Speaker and host at industry events on ITSM, UEM, OT security and NIS2.

05/2024 – 12/2024
Group Manager Sales Enterprise Solutions

Joined as a manager, promoted to Head of Sales after eight months.

01/2020 – 04/2024
Senior Account Manager Sales National
baramundi software GmbH — leading German vendor for unified endpoint management

Built and developed the OT sales business as a newly established segment, as the responsible salesperson rather than in a leadership role. Won the first OT reference in a regulated industrial environment: Windows endpoint management on the shop floor plus inventory and vulnerability assessment of the Siemens S7 controllers at a manufacturer of medical glass. Led a nationwide sales initiative in mobile device management, built technology partnerships, spoke at trade fairs and webinars.

12/2017 – 12/2019
Key Account Manager, strategic OEM accounts
REHAU

Developed strategic key accounts at premium car manufacturers with project volumes in the tens of millions, among them Audi, Porsche and Škoda. Deal management across purchasing, engineering, quality and production, project leadership in international projects in Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

08/2015 – 11/2017
Branch Sales Manager
WM SE — wholesale for automotive supplies, Crailsheim branch

Full accountability for revenue, cost, logistics and overall performance of the site, plus leading and developing a sales team of twelve. Three roles in two years, from inside sales management through field sales to running the site after fifteen months with the company.

2000 – 2015
From retail apprentice to project manager
Tradebyte Software GmbH (2014 – 2015) · Stahlgruber GmbH and A.T.U (2000 – 2014)

At Tradebyte, project and customer responsibility in European e-commerce with technical consulting. Before that, fourteen years in retail, from a commercial apprenticeship through purchasing and inside sales into field sales. During that time completed secondary school qualification alongside work and an integrated dual bachelor's degree.

Andreas Klare, portrait in a suit.
Andreas Klare, current portrait.
Awards and degrees

Awards and degrees

Awards from ManageEngine

Awarded January 2026
  • Endpoint Central Top Revenue Maker
  • IAM Outstanding Partner of the Year
  • FSO Revenue Titans
  • Million Club, Full Stack Observability
Awarded January 2025
  • Star Performer IAM
  • UEM Top Revenue Maker
The trophy for Top Revenue Maker in ManageEngine Endpoint Central, presented at the Partner Meet in January 2026.
The trophy for Top Revenue Maker in ManageEngine Endpoint Central, presented at the Partner Meet in January 2026.
Awarded by the vendor across its worldwide partner network, each January for the financial year just ended. Endpoint Central is the ManageEngine UEM product, so the award for it carries a different name in each of the two rounds.

Academic foundation

MBA Digital Business Management
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, AACSB accredited · completed January 2026

Overall grade 1.2 on the German scale, passed with distinction, thesis graded 1.0. The subject was the transformation of B2B software sales, applied directly in practice.

Bachelor of Arts, International Retail Management
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, dual programme · completed 2014

Integrated dual degree alongside working in retail, with stations in purchasing, inside sales and field sales.

How I lead

How I lead

I do not believe in sales leadership as a control function. A forecast that is merely collected is a number without insight. Leadership gets interesting at the point where somebody loses a deal and you work out together why, without turning that into a procedure.

A no without an alternative is not leadership, it is administration. On the finish line salespeople do not need control, they need creative support. And whoever is meant to give it has to be allowed to decide. Anyone who first has to escalate three levels up arrives too late.

People develop when you trust them with something one size too big and stand next to them. Two of my current managers came about exactly that way. That is the part of this work that carries me the longest, and honestly more than any revenue figure.

And I like to build. Tools, processes, segments. I did not write my master's thesis on the transformation of B2B software sales in order to hand it in, but in order to apply it the Monday after.

CollaborativeCoaching-mindedPerformance-drivenData-ledHigh integrity
Contact

Get in touch

For a professional exchange about IT management, endpoint and OT security, for enquiries about talks and hosting, or simply because you are dealing with the same problem right now. LinkedIn is the direct route, email works just as well.