TeamViewer SE, appointed Mei Dent as Chief Product and Technology Officer, starting 31 August 2023. She will join the management board of TeamViewer SE alongside CEO Oliver Steil, CFO Michael Wilkens and CCO Peter Turner. Mei will drive the company’s product vision and overall innovation strategy and will head TeamViewer’s global product management, solution delivery and R&D teams including its software development hubs in Germany, Austria, Greece and Portugal.

With this newly created role that anchors all technology responsibilities in the management board, TeamViewer underlines the strategic importance of product development and innovation for the company. Mei Dent has an excellent track record as a technology executive in the software and IT industry. She started her career as a software developer at IBM and spent nearly 25 years in various product and engineering related leadership roles at Canadian software giant OpenText.

As VP R&D at OpenText, she successfully pioneered the first multi-tenant SaaS product for the company and therefore developed a key element of OpenText’s cloud offering. As part of the senior leadership team of the company’s software development organization, she was also responsible for global engineering practices and processes for security, performance, user experience, as well as reusable and shared services. In her most recent role as CTO at customer communications management and engagement software provider Doxim, Mei led the entire technology organization and scaled it to support the company’s growth.

She was responsible for the full lifecycle of Doxim’s platform development as well as product integration in the context of Doxim’s acquisitions. Mei holds a Master in Computer Science from the Western University in Ontario. She will be based in Goppingen, Germany.

Dr. Mike Eissele, TeamViewer’s current CTO, and Dr. Hendrik Witt, TeamViewer’s current CPO will leave the company at the end of 2023 after a transition phase and a comprehensive handover to Mei. Beyond that, both remain available with their extensive knowledge to support the company further as needed. Mike leaves TeamViewer after more than 14 years and numerous successful product launches and releases as well as pioneering the use of Augmented Reality software at TeamViewer.

Under his leadership the company built dedicated software development hubs outside of Germany to become more flexible in R&D. Hendrik joined TeamViewer three years ago with the acquisition of Augmented Reality software specialist Ubimax. The founder and former CEO of Ubimax will leave TeamViewer as planned after a very successful journey with the company and a complete integration of Ubimax’s product offering “Frontline” into TeamViewer’s solution portfolio as well as the recent go live of TeamViewer Remote, the company’s upgraded remote access and support solution for SMB customers and non-commercial users.