Gerhard Wanek has been at PIDAS since 2005 as a member of the Executive Board, and was head of the Managed Services business unit in Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic. He has been the Country Manager for operations in Austria. From 1998 until 2005 Wanek was with T-systems Austria GmbH. Partly in parallel, from 1995 to 2003, he was with Mobilkom Austria GmbH, heading client24 and as customer retention Manager. Before that he was with Bene Office Furniture KG as area sales manager key account. He is the founder and operator of PfH, a platform for trading. He is a board member at pro mente Vienna, a society for mental and social health. Wanek is the organizer of SAS, future network, IIR, management forum, and call center Forum.