Założyciel i CEO ELO Digital Office GmbH odszedł niespodziewanie.
Enterprise content management (ECM) software provider ELO Digital Office bids a sad farewell to its esteemed founder, Karl Heinz Mosbach, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Friday, April 11, 2025. In accordance with the succession plan, his son and Co-Managing Director Nils Mosbach will be taking on additional responsibilities to lead the company confidently into the future.
Nils Mosbach is demonstrating tenacity, strength, and foresight despite the challenging circumstances: “As a son, the loss of my father is extremely hard. Not only is ELO losing an exceptional and visionary entrepreneur, but also someone whose humanity, empathy, values, and inspirational qualities have made such a lasting impression on everyone who knew him. My father and I have always shared the same values and ideas. Since I joined the management in 2020, we have developed and driven forward many strategic goals and visions together. The fact that he is no longer here to witness the fruits of this wonderful collaboration in person is especially painful. As an owner-managed company, stability and consistency in management has always been a key focus. That is why we will continue the company’s legacy and vision as my father would have wished.”
Matthias Thiele, Managing Director and former CTO, has also expressed his deep sadness, and yet is optimistic about the future: “I knew Karl Heinz Mosbach for almost 30 years. We built ELO together. Even after I retired from the operational business five years ago, we remained in close contact. I have always greatly appreciated and admired his entrepreneurial foresight. It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that he is no longer with us. The gap he leaves behind is immeasurable. At the same time, I know that the company is in a position of strength with Nils Mosbach in the next generation.”
Out of respect for the family and mourners, ELO Digital Office asks that people refrain from contacting them at this time.
Karl Heinz Mosbach, visionary and entrepreneur with a passion:
Born in Saarland in 1960, Karl Heinz Mosbach completed an apprenticeship as an electronics technician after leaving school, before going on to study information technology and business administration in Saarbrücken in 1981. After successfully completing his degree, he joined Louis Leitz KG in Stuttgart in 1986, initially as a planning engineer for automation and CAD/CAM technology. He was later appointed Head of Systems Engineering in the Organization and Data Technology division, and was responsible for numerous data center and SAP projects. In 1996, in the course of new business endeavors, he was responsible for setting up the Leitz business division and the later Leitz subsidiary for document management, electronic archiving, and workflows. After the Leitz Group was sold to Esselte in 1998, he headed the then Louis Leitz Digital Office GmbH with Matthias Thiele, later founding ELO Digital Office GmbH. He ran the ECM company with great success and was active in numerous industry associations, including the board of Bitkom and the Association of Organization and Information Systems (VOI). As CEO, he steered ELO with unbound commitment and enthusiasm until the end, later together with his son Nils, who joined the ranks of management in 2020.
