MANAGEMENT
BOARD

VITA Ingo Kraupa

Ingo Kraupa is co-founder and chairman of the company. In the Management Board, he is responsible for customer business and operations.

Already during his studies of computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he and his colleagues Joachim Astel and Matthias Urlichs founded Northern Bavaria's first Internet Provider, noris network, in 1993 - two years after the web protocol HTTP was introduced.

As the company developed towards a modern IT service provider, the field of activity of the networking expert steadily shifted from the consulting and operative business towards strategy and organization matters. Apart from networking technology, his passion today focuses on the automation and optimization of business processes and green IT.

VITA Joachim Astel

Joachim Astel, co-founder and member of the Management Board of noris network AG, is responsible for the areas of personnel, security, and compliance.

With his colleagues Ingo Kraupa and Matthias Urlichs, he founded noris network, the first Internet Provider in Northern Bavaria, in 1993. Very early on, the IT expert recognized the growing importance of IT security for enterprises and society.

In addition to his core interest in security management, firewall, and IT security technologies, his main focus today is on the automation and optimization of business processes as well as personnel management.

The family man lives with his wife and two children in the Nuremberg region. In his leisure time, he continues to enjoy his hobbies of hardware and programming he shares with his kids, as well as sporting activities such as cycling and swimming.

VITA Jürgen Städing

Jürgen Städing is COO (Chief Operating Officer) of noris network AG. On the Management Board, he is responsible for operations, organization and strategy.

Prior to joining noris network AG, Jürgen Städing was chief strategist (CSO) of NFON AG until summer 2017. There he laid the foundations for the georedundant, scalable and legally compliant operation of a cloud solution for business customers. Until 2008, Jürgen Städing was a member of the Management Board of SpaceNet AG.

Jürgen Städing held executive positions at Tiscali Business and Nextra Germany. In the mid-1990s he founded IP Consult GmbH and was a member of the Management Board of INTERNET AG. Until the end of the 1990s, he was also involved in the development of DE-NIC e. G. as a representative of Contrib.Net.

Jürgen Städing lives with his wife and two children in the heart of Munich. In his spare time he keeps himself fit with swimming, running and cycling.