Since 2012 Ralf Ploenes is country manager of Raritan Germany, which provides intelligent solutions for optimized data centers of all sizes. Before he had his own consultant agency for Sales and Marketing with regard to intelligent buildings. In 2015 he took the role of Vice President Sales for the Raritan EMEA region. Since 2018 his responsibility was expanded to VP Sales and Operations for the brands Raritan and Servertech EMEA wide as well as the Datacenter solutions of the Legrand Group for Germany and Austria including the entire portfolio of UPS, Busbars, cabinets and containment as well as iPDUs and KVMs. Mr. Ploenes has a degree in Aerospace Engineering.