Thorben Burghardt, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & EVP Business Lines
Thorben Burghardt,
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & EVP Business Lines
Thorben is Executive Vice President of the business lines and Chief Technology Officer. Having started his career in RnD for the broadcasting industry, and later for finance software, Thorben developed his first airport software in 1997.
Within ADB SAFEGATE, Thorben started as the technical lead for the smart metering businesses before the acquisition of LUCEBIT by ADB, and then leading ADB operations (project management, system engineering, service and production) for Central & Eastern Europe until the 2016 merger with Safegate when he became head of global service for ADB SAFEGATE. In 2020 he took over responsibility for the Gate business line and later Airport Systems, and in 2023 his role was expanded to all Airfield business lines, the international Weather team and Service to streamline efforts towards Airside 4.0.
Thorben has a master’s degree in computer science and a PhD from a data mining and information system chair of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
