Peter van der Galiën named TecAlliance CEO

TecAlliance has appointed Peter van der Galiën (55) as the new CEO of TecAlliance GmbH, effective 1 January 2024. He succeeds Jürgen Buchert (66), who will retire at the end of the year after 22 years as CEO of TecAlliance GmbH and Caruso GmbH. The TecAlliance Group will achieve turnover of more than 117 million euros in 2023. It employs almost 1,000 people.

Jürgen Buchert, who holds a degree in business administration, began his career in 1989 at Robert Bosch, after holding various professional positions in Germany and abroad, joined TecCom GmbH as managing director in 2001. In 2010, he merged TecDoc with TecCom, which then became TecAlliance GmbH. With further acquisitions, he systematically completed the solution portfolio in the following years and initiated globalisation.

Peter van der Galiën’s path led him to Motorola in 1992 after studying computer science. In the following 17 years, he acted as managing director of Motorola B.V. Netherlands and was part of the European Executive Management team and Director of Sales for Motorola ECC Europe. In 2009 he joined the Haynes Group as Global Director of Sales & Marketing for HaynesPro, their Professional Automotive Data division. Following steep growth of HaynesPro he was appointed as Managing Director of the HaynesPro Group and Executive Director on the Supervisory Board of Haynes Publishing P.L.C., in 2015. He was a founding member of ADPA (European Automotive Data Publishers Association) and acted as their Vice President for over 6 years.

“I am very excited to succeed Jürgen Buchert as CEO of TecAlliance, who has successfully led TecAlliance to become the global market leader in data for the automotive aftermarket. I am looking forward to building on the achievements of the TecAlliance team and to further develop TecAlliance’s business as a Global player in the field of automotive data and digital business processes. Jürgen and I will work closely together from October onwards to assure a thorough handover and I will be aligning our business plans with Neil Fryer and the Shareholders’ Committee,” added Peter van der Galiën.