About us

Who are we?

d.velop Life Sciences GmbH

Since 2007, we as d.velop Life Sciences GmbH are the partner of d.velop AG for GxP-compliant documentation solutions. Thilo Gukelberger and Dieter Schulten manage the company with the long-time expertise of former employees of d.velop AG. Thus, we are also significant co-inventors of our basic product d.velop documents (formerly d.3ecm), which is now used by more than 12,500 customers worldwide as a central ECM/DMS/archive system. Our solutions see themselves as a complementary supplement to d.velop documents (formerly d.3ecm) They primarily address document-based processes of manufacturing/production and the quality management. In addition to our customers of the classical Life Sciences industry (pharmaceutical, medical technology, food supplements, cosmetics), also customers from the steel industry and the service sector trust our solutions.

d.velop AG

With more than 1,000 employees in the d.velop group, d.velop AG, founded in 1992 by Christoph Pliete and Thilo Gukelberger, develops and markets software that optimizes document-based business and decision-making processes in companies. More than 3.1 million users trust the efficient document management and archiving.

Get to know our fantastic team

Some faces behind the success

Without them, we wouldn’t exist

Tim Dönnebrink

Head of Sales

Georg Langbehn

Account Manager

Frank Laumann

Director Operations

Sebastian Selting

Marketing Manager

Sarah Feldmann

Head of Software Quality Assurance

Dr. Dennis Sandkühler

Quality Management Officer

Dirk Bönnen

Head of Development

Dieter Schulten

Managing Director

Thilo Gukelberger

Managing Director

Respect

When people work together, mistakes and occasional frictions are inevitable. Respectful interaction is the basis for factual communication and for coping with challenging situations or even conflicts. “Always treat others as you would like to be treated by them.” This principle is our leitmotiv when dealing with colleagues, suppliers and customers.

Perseverance and continuity

“Slow and steady wins the race,” as the saying goes. Perseverance is one of our most important success factors. Many of our market companions and their IT solutions come and go. However, our customers attach great importance to long-term business relationships. Perseverance, a virtue that has become rare in our fast-moving society, leads to success. Our company history proves this.

Performance

We live in a performance-oriented world. Every employee contributes to the success of our company through his or her performance. Performance must be worthwhile. We have therefore developed an employee participation model through which every employee shares in the company’s profits.

Responsibility and sincerity

We live the responsibility towards our customers. Since 2009, we have been supplying customers from the GxP environment with IT solutions requiring validation. We are proud not to have lost any of these customers to date. Furthermore we always want to be honest, authentic and reliable. Because sincerity is an expression of strength of character and proves to be attractive.

What are our values?

IT is not an end in itself

Our two company founders have more than 30 years of experience in the development, distribution and implementation of software solutions. These years have shaped us. Technology comes and goes. People remain people.

We do not run after every short-lived IT trend. We live up to our responsibility to offer our customers long-term, mature products at an appropriate total cost of ownership.

Awards

Award as “Growth Champion 2023”

For the third time, FOCUS, in cooperation with research partner Statista GmbH, has named d.velop Life Sciences a “Growth Champion”.

Since 2014, and thus for the seventh time in a row, FOCUS has presented the fastest-growing companies in Germany in cooperation with the market research institute Statista GmbH. For the year 2023, d.velop Life Sciences is also listed there for the third time in a row! Above all, we owe this award to our loyal customers and employees.

Award as “Top Employer 2022”

All good things come in threes! All good things come in threes! For the third time in a row, FOCUS-Business, together with the employer rating platform kununu.com, has awarded d.velop Life Sciences as “Top employer small and medium-sized businesses”. Every year since 2018, the FOCUS magazine in cooperation with the rating portal kununu publishes a list with the top employers under the small and medium-sized businesses. To determine the top employers for small and medium-sized businesses 2022, more than 550,000 ratings of employees from 38.000 companies were analyzed. With a current rating of 4.6 stars and a recommendation rate of 100% (as of December 2021), d.velop Life Sciences again far exceeds the requirements.