About our team
We are a diverse team of free thinkers, athletes, inventors, artists and more. We love what we do and want to inspire and be inspired. We don't believe in outdated principles and one-size-fits-all solutions, but in creative methods and flexibility. Our diversity of perspectives helps us to maintain a broad, fresh view. Our team consists of qualified people with many years of experience in textile engineering, project management, strategy, IT and production management. Both teamwork and independence are very important to us and motivate us to always work together in an agile and interdisciplinary way within our projects.
Markus Beckmann
Managing Director
Markus founded the ITA Academy in 2016 and, in addition to his many leadership roles, he also acts as a mentor and co-thinker. He is also the link between the university, the ITA Group and McKinsey & Company.
Carolin Schwager
Projekt Manager -Textile/Digitalisation
Carolin has been part of the ITA Academy since 2022. Her tasks include organising workshops and training courses, acquisition & customer acquisition and providing support with questions about textile production
Esther Tala
Projekt Manager-Digitalisation
Digital Transformation Engineer
Esther is responsible for the technical planning and implementation of digitalisation projects in research and development projects as well as in internal development. Through dialogue, she concretises ideas, develops technical requirements and translates these into implementable solutions.
Jana Bendels
Studentische Hilfskraft- Mediendesign
Jana has been a member of the ITA team since October 2022. She specialises in visual communication and design. Part of her work is the development of our website, the creation of posts on social media and the development of various print media.