Stefan Heim named new Vice President at Bechtle

• Move to Business Applications confirmed from 1 October 2025
• Andreas Staudigel to retire after 15 years with Bechtle
• Stefan Heim makes the switch from subsidiary, Aproda

Neckarsulm/St. Gallen, 12 August 2025 – Stefan Heim will take on the role of Vice President Business Applications at Bechtle AG from 1 October. He is making the move from Swiss subsidiary, Aproda AG, taking the reins from Andreas Staudigel, who will be retiring after 15 years at Bechtle. Stefan Heim will be overseeing the international activities of the group specialists Modus Consult GmbH and HanseVision GmbH (Germany), Aproda AG (Switzerland), and Smartpoint GmbH (Austria). In his new role, the 47-year-old will be reporting to Michael Guschlbauer, COO for Germany and Austria and all Bechtle Group specialists.

Andreas Staudigel has held leadership roles at Bechtle since 2010, initially as Managing Director of the IT systems house in Mannheim, and from 2014 onward as Executive Vice President for the Cluster Central Germany and Business Process Solutions. Since January 2023, his focus has been on the Bechtle Group’s four specialist entities for application solutions employing some 750 staff across the DACH region.

Stefan Heim joined the Bechtle Group in 2019 as CEO of Alpha Solutions—a company he had been with since 2003. Two years later, Swiss subsidiaries, Acommit and Alpha Solutions, merged under the name Aproda, which—under the leadership of Stefan Heim, has continued to grow, establishing itself as a recognised specialist for ERP and CRM solutions in the Swiss market. Effective 1 October 2025, Markus Zäch—already a member of the leadership team—will succeed Stefan Heim as CEO at Aproda.

“We’d like to thank Andreas Staudigel for his unwavering dedication and exceptional contributions across his various leadership roles. He played a key part in growing our business applications division and supporting the development of our specialists into leaders in their respective markets,” says Michael Guschlbauer, COO, Bechtle AG. “We are delighted to be able to fill both high-level positions with outstanding leaders from within our own ranks.”