We’re committed to empower you to make faster and smarter decisions that have a real impact. Whether you’re an employee, partner, or stakeholder, we provide solutions and the ability to enhance your performance beyond expectations.
We are a European software development leader, dedicated to the automotive industry. With over 70.000 end-users in Europe, we are committed to drive excellence within the automotive distribution sector.
We provide integrated end-to-end software solutions that digitize and simplify the entire automotive customer journey.
Interface your solution to Nextlane platform to connect it with your DMS, CRM or other digital solutions.
Deploy new interfaces in the cloud without requiring software updates.
We’re committed to empower you to make faster and smarter decisions that have a real impact. Whether you’re an employee, partner, or stakeholder, we provide solutions and the ability to enhance your performance beyond expectations.
Innovation is at the core of what we stand for. We’re dedicated to making our products better through technology and providing solutions that truly make a difference. Our company culture is all about encouraging new ideas and pushing the limits.
We are continuously adapting to the ever-changing industry landscape. Being agile to us means linking people, processes, and technologies to streamline processes, removing limits for both employees, customers and partners. In simple terms, we aim to remove unnecessary constraints to maximize productivity.
Our commitment to reliability is to create a foundation where trust is at the heart of everything we do. We want to build a circle of trust with our customers, partners and employees by being transparent, accountable and delivering the best possible quality.
Hartmut Wagner started his role of Chief Executive Officer for Nextlane in November 2023.
Hartmut brought with him a tremendous level of experience and expertise in the global Software and Cloud industry for more than 25 years. He has been successfully leading international teams with up to more than 1’000 people in leading tech enterprise companies such as Jron Mountain, HP and Microfocus. Hartmut has also been showing strong performance operating in Private Equity owned portfolio companies such as Exact, Collenda and Serrala, where he served in CEO and General Management roles.
Hartmut gained a diploma in Business Administration at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Mannheim, Germany. His career brought him to many countries around the World with local engagements in the United States, The Netherlands, France and Germany.
Jonatan studied Computer Science at the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started his professional career working as technical support for Microsoft at a young age.
In 2002 he co-founded Nextlane, wherein his capacity as IT Manager was in charge of the design of CRMAuto, the most extensive CRM solution for the automotive sector in Europe. In 2019 he was appointed co-CEO of Nextlane Spain.
After three years, Jonatan became the Chief Technical Officer of Nextlane. He oversees product development and roadmap, R&D, and Information Systems.
Jean-Louis is the Chief Revenue Officer of Nextlane. He is in charge of all our dealers and OEM offers, as well as our global Marketing, Sales and Alliances teams.
He started his professional career in 1993 in France, then in California. During 25 years, he grew through the ranks and has worked as Vice-President, Chief Revenue and General manager of technology companies like Oracle, Salesforce, and Microsoft France where he managed the entire enterprise business, contributing to the company’s transition to the cloud. He then successfully grew French startups and scaleups such as Algolia or Alsid into international businesses.
His mission at Nextlane, first and foremost at the service of our customers, is to fully integrate all the entities into a cohesive, efficient, and well-performing team, ensuring the company’s growth in Europe.
Gregory Andre joined Nextlane as Chief Financial Officer in March 2024 to drive the continued growth and development of the organization.
Gregory brings with him a wealth of experience, having started his career at Arthur Andersen before spending nearly 18 years in the heavy industry sector, working for prominent international corporations.
Seven years ago, Gregory made a strategic transition to the fast-paced technology sector, drawn to its dynamic evolution and constant innovation. Applying his experience of heavy industry to hyper-growth models, Gregory was actively involved in commercial strategies, partnering with the Go-To-Market teams to accelerate growth and implement scalable models.
This combined experience gives him a unique skillset to optimize both top-line and bottom-line performance. Known for his dynamic approach and comprehensive financial acumen, Gregory is also an avid trail runner and freeride snowboarder. His energy and dedication are evident in both personal and professional endeavors.
Olivier is an engineer and graduated from Mines-Télécom in 1998. He started his career at Bouygues Telecom, working in digital services and launching dematerialised services. He supported Enterprise accounts in their business transformation and the implementation of their knowledge-sharing and collaboration projects.
Olivier joined Nextlane in January 2022 as Chief Operating Officer with the mission of supporting the company’s growth by ensuring the smooth running of customer operations by implementing an optimal strategy.
As Global Head of the Professional Services and Customer Services departments in 11 countries with around 200 employees, he will lead all Customer Operations from project deployment to support and customer relationship management.
Hélène joins Nextlane as Chief Product Officer with the objective of increasing the added value of the products, supporting customer growth and harmonising the product portfolio by redefining and aligning product operations with Nextlane strategy, managing the Nextlane product team and defining investment priorities.
Her professional career started as a dealer network trainer on new models at Volkswagen France. After working at companies such as JATO Dynamics and Solera, where she developed the brand’s product strategy for managing the claims platform, connecting repairers, adjusters and insurers, Hélène became VP Product Manager and acquired a solid experience in Product Management of SaaS solutions for the automotive, sales and after-sales industries.
Her experience of more than 20 years in the automotive sector gives her a deep understanding of the business and the challenges related to the digital transformation of customers.
Bertrand started his career as a strategy and marketing consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners from 2013 to 2019.
Initially based in the Paris office, he was involved in multiple B2B and B2C projects in different countries (Greece, Turkey, Romania…). He then relocated to London and later to Sydney. He spent 3 years helping the local office grow while keeping solid connections with the rest of the organisation.
Back in Europe in 2019, to complete his initial engineering education, Bertrand joined Nextlane in September 2020, first as GTM & Pricing manager and later as Chief of Staff. His mission is to help the executive team to achieve the company goals.
Jean-François is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Nextlane, in charge of talent development, culture and leadership within the organization.
He brings over 20 years’ experience as a human resources manager in EMEA, Asia and the Americas, supporting the rapid growth and transformation of various companies in the electronics manufacturing, energy and software sectors.
Prior to joining Nextlane, he was VP HR at a global SaaS player, where he managed the creation of a Center of Excellence, recruiting and integrating over 600 software engineers to support the company’s exponential growth.
Ionut Jivan is the Chief Digital Officer at Nextlane, bringing over 20 years of expertise in the technical field. He started his career in a local Romanian company working to build software for the UK market, where he quickly found himself moving up into leadership roles. For the past 8 years, Ionut has worked for North American-based tech companies, creating highly efficient organizations with distributed global teams, while working on cloud-native high throughput systems.
Ionut joined Nextlane in March 2024 to help support the company’s continuous growth, where he always aims to have the customer at the forefront of everything he does. His extensive experience enables him to drive a robust digital transformation with a clear digital vision and strategy.
Being a developer at heart, Ionut thrives in solving problems and key challenges, allowing him to support empowered, autonomous, full-stack teams at Nextlane that can adapt to any project.