XChange Deutschland 2025 - Advisory Board 

The XChange DE Advisory Board represents the voice of our senior IT partner attendees.


Working closely with CRN DE and The Channel Company management, the board helps shape a compelling and valuable platform for both attendees and sponsors. In addition to their advisory role, board members also serve as moderators during our boardroom appointment sessions.


Meet the 2025 Advisory Board members

Andreas Schober
Geschäftsführer
aconitas GmbH
Jan Bindig
Managing Director
Bindig Media GmbH


Jan Bindig is the Managing Director of Bindig Media GmbH and the CEO of kiwiko eG, a nationwide network for IT service providers. With over 20 years of experience in the IT sector, he has extensive expertise in IT security, data recovery, and emergency management. As an expert in innovative business concepts, he is also actively involved in promoting strategic cooperation and the exchange of experience within the IT sector.


Jan-Michael Lohr
CEO
Ploon.IT Group


Jan-Michael Lohr is an experienced and passionate IT entrepreneur who founded the system house List + Lohr in Hanover in 1996 together with his fellow student Martin List while still a student. In addition to the system house business, he has initiated and helped shape numerous IT projects. These include the cloud provider Busymouse, founded in 2011, which offered cloud services specifically for system houses, and a company founded in 2018 that specialised in data protection.

In addition to the system house business, Jan-Michael Lohr regularly contributes his extensive expertise to M&A projects and has gained valuable experience in acquiring and selling IT companies and corporate integration. In his current role as Managing Director of the ploon.it group, he drives the development of a nationwide managed service provider group. 

Robert Sieber
Geschäftsführer
MSP-Support GmbH


As a service nerd, Robert Sieber is about good service experiences and efficient service delivery. He has been sharing his service management knowledge and experience in the podcast (www.different-thinking.de) since 2015.

He has gained experience as a corporate CIO, business unit manager in a system house, technology consultant, and third-level administrator. As Managing Director of MSP-Support GmbH, he and his team ensure measurable and sustainable relief for system houses and MSPs. A first-class service desk, competent support, and the reliable processing of operational and routine tasks are at the heart of the cooperation offer.


Sven Meyer
Managing Director
EDV-Partner GmbH


Since 1995, the year EDV-Partner was founded, Sven Meyer has been managing partner of the Hamburg-based system house. The customers of the infrastructure and information security specialist include medium-sized companies as well as internationally networked corporations. Focus: IT security, future-proof infrastructures, digitalisation of business processes. Meyer is also spokesman for the advisory board of ALSO Network (ANW). Around 250 system houses, MSPs and ISVs belong to the broadliner's network. Sven Meyer is also a member of the 7-member CRN Readers' Advisory Board and the CRN Channel Awards Germany jury.