Michael Schulte

CEO Engineering
Group Executive Board member
 
Michael Schulte has been CEO of Engineering since January 2026, and a member of the Group Executive Board since January 2021.
 
Prior to this, from 2021, Michael was CEO of Northern Europe.
 
Michael was the Managing Director of Capgemini’s Business Unit in Germany from July 2018 to December 2020, after having led the Application Services business in Germany since 2013. Under Michael’s leadership Capgemini was able to reach market leading positions both in management consulting and in application development and became a leading brand for digital talent.
 
Michael joined Capgemini in 1993 through Gemini Consulting, which has evolved into Capgemini Invent today. He has held a variety of leadership positions at Capgemini in both Germany and the US especially within the strategy and transformation consulting practice of the Group.
 
He studied mechanical engineering at the Bochum Ruhr-University (Germany) as well as at the A&M University in Texas (US) and subsequently completed his doctorate in the field of production engineering at the University of Saarland (Germany).