The management of TPG The Project Group
Experience in project management and Microsoft Project
The successful management team at TPG The Project Group combine technical and economic experience and expertise at a very high level. The management alone have well over 50 man-years of experience with Microsoft Project accumulated since 1989 when the first Beta Version appeared on the market. All three team members have established international reputations as consultants in project management solutions.
Their know-how, accumulated over many years, provides the basis for the Microsoft Project extension products supplied by TPG, integrating EPM solutions even more seamlessly in the processes and infrastructure of medium-sized and large companies and organizations.
Stavros Georgantzis is the Founder and Managing Director of TPG The Project Group GmbH. It was under his leadership that TPG developed the first link between Microsoft Project and SAP (PSLink®) back in 1998.
Before setting up The Project Group, Stavros Georgantzis was a consultant, a trainer for project management and the author of several publications on the subject including being the main contributor to the Inside Project magazine. He worked as a consultant and product manager at Microsoft GmbH in Unterschleißheim, Germany from 1992 to 1994.
Today Stavros Georgantzis is in charge of worldwide sales and partner management as well as strategic relations with Microsoft and SAP at TPG.
Johann Strasser is a qualified engineer and has been Managing Partner of TPG The Project Group since 2001. His responsibilities include software product development.
Following several years’ experience as a development engineer in the automotive and energy sectors, Johann Strasser worked in the field of project management for ten years as a self-employed consultant and trainer. During this time, he was a project manager for software projects in the construction sector and managed scheduling and cost management for large-scale building projects. He has been working intensively with Microsoft Project ever since the first version was released. Johann Strasser also authors articles for a variety of journals and is a recognized speaker on all project management related topics.
Dr. Thomas Henkelmann has been the Director of Consulting Services and Associate Partner of TPG The Project Group since May 2004.
After his studies and PhD in Technical Physics he started as a project management consultant at Primavera. Having founded his own company, Micro-Frame Technologies Deutschland GmbH (changing its name in 2000 to 12Plan Projektmanagement GmbH) he went on to become managing director of several software companies (elabor.com, Scheuring AG, Business Engine Software Corporation), responsible for building up their European distribution and service networks.
His current activities now focus on consulting and developing implementation concepts for Enterprise Project Management solutions based on Microsoft Project Server.
