Our Management
The executive management is jointly led by the managing partners Michael Flunkert and Waios Kastanis, together with Lutz Krämer. The extended management team additionally includes Thomas Kogelberg (division manager finance & services – CFO). This ensures that Babtec is competently positioned across all business areas to meet the growing demands of the market. Partnership and communication at eye level are just as important to the management as a high level of professionalism and courageous progression. Get to know your quality partners!
Michael Flunkert
Managing Partner
Michael Flunkert, MBA (Master of Business Administration), studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. During this time, he already founded a system house that focused on the development of IT tools for quality assurance. In 1994, Flunkert founded Babtec Informationssysteme GmbH with the aim of providing all manufacturing companies with a standard software solution for quality management. As a shareholder and managing director, he actively promotes a positive error culture in quality management and puts the guiding principle of making the world a little better every day through quality into effect.
Waios Kastanis
Managing Partner
Waios Kastanis started his career in Sales at Ikoss GmbH, a subsidiary of Thyssen AG. In 1989, he took over the management of the Wuppertal branch of softmetal GmbH within the Thyssen Group. In 1991, Kastanis moved to the Stuttgart ERP company Strässle Informationssysteme GmbH. Since 1995, Kastanis has been a shareholder and managing director of Babtec Informationssysteme GmbH. He has made trust and cooperation at eye level his management maxim.
Lutz Krämer
Managing Director (Lead)
After graduating with a degree in engineering from the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Lutz Krämer began his career in the IT department of a German corporation. He then took on various management roles in medium-sized software companies, sharpening his eye for the needs of the industry. He has held management positions at Babtec since 2006 and was responsible for the Products division starting in 2014. Since early 2026, he has been a Managing Director. Lutz Krämer places a special focus on creating scope for self-responsible action in his team and acting with a holistic view of the needs of all stakeholders.
Thomas Kogelberg
Member of the Management
Division Manager Finance & Services – CFO
After studying business administration, Thomas Kogelberg gained extensive experience in the areas of controlling, finance and administration in the software industry. Most recently, he was CFO of a well-known software manufacturer in southern Germany. Since 2021, he has stood for appreciation and teamwork at Babtec in a management position in the area of Finance and Central Services.
Our Vision:
Every Company Has a Quality Consciousness for the Benefit of People.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is our common denominator. All team members – from the top management to the working student – work every day towards our big goal, our common vision, and follow our mission and guiding principles. It is important to us that we are constant in our values, but agile in our processes. In this way, we are continuously developing as a company, improving ourselves again and again, and achieving quality excellence together with our users.
Our Mission:
We Support Companies in Permanently Strengthening Their Quality.
To support companies in quality management, we offer everything from intuitive quality tools in the cloud to complex QM systems for the fulfillment of quality-relevant standards such as DIN EN ISO 9001 and IATF 16949, we offer a wide range of services for all industrial companies.
The "Element Q" describes the market's requirement for modern quality management and consists of the elements of integration, connectivity and collaboration.
Integration
Based on common processes and taking into account the corporate strategy, the interests of all stakeholders and, in particular, the manufacture of the products, modern quality management develops as part of an integrated management system (IMS).
Connectivity
The management system requires a seamless and bidirectional connection to existing software systems in the company.
Collaboration
Digital processes do not stop at the corporate boundary. The high effectiveness of digital quality processes only emerges within the framework of good collaboration in the supply networks.
With our help, companies strengthen their quality, generate competitive advantages, and improve their market position. In this way, we promote a heightened awareness of quality and a quality mindset that goes beyond normative requirements.
Our Guiding Principles:
Focus on People
Shared values are the basis for a good corporate culture. We have therefore defined guiding principles that place people at the center of our actions. In our day-to-day interactions, whether in our team or with our users and partners, these guiding principles serve as a framework that reflects our corporate values and ethical rules of conduct.
- We maintain our independence and sovereignty and act in a self-determined manner in the implementation of our vision.
- We think and act holistically and achieve good results for all in the interests of the stakeholders.
- We give people freedom and responsibility so that competent decisions are made where they are needed.
- We give trust and create commitment through perceptible appreciation and cooperation at eye level.
- We continuously improve and win through a positive failure culture.
