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Successful expertise in the automotive claims market and a clear focus on customer needs: These are just two of the attributes that distinguish Matthias Rolinski and which our CEO applies to the IRS Group. 

After a successful career in the automotive environment, including 7 years in a leading position at Carglass Germany, Matthias Rolinski switched industries in 2017 to Amplifon Deutschland GmbH. Under his leadership, the global market leader for hearing aid acoustics has become a top provider in Germany with more than 550 of its own specialist stores and 2,000 employees. 

But the business economist was drawn back to the automotive industry. During his time at Carglass, Matthias Rolinski helped shape the rise of the industry leader in sales and marketing and, most recently, as Customer Director, was responsible for operations, sales and key account management. 

At the IRS Group, in addition to growth through acquisitions, he is also focusing on optimizing processes in order to offer B2B partners and end customers all services related to the repair and reconditioning of vehicles from a single source. 

The trained car mechanic and graduate engineer started his career in 1993 at Deutsche Renault AG as head of the Nissan Institute, where he was responsible for dealer network qualification, method development and personnel development for the trade. In 2007, he moved to Audi AG as Head of Global Training, and in the following year took over the dealer network qualification and then the management of Motorvillage Germany GmbH of FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

From 2017 until the end of 2021, he was responsible for dealer network development at Jaguar Land Rover GmbH as a member of the management board.

In 2022, Rainer Ohlenhard then moved to IRS to be responsible for its fortunes at the operational level as Director of Operations.

Since June 2023, he has been the operational managing director of IRS Germany.

Michael Hanke has been CFO of the IRS Group since October 2021. Before joining IRS, Mr. Hanke was Managing Director for the Nexan Group, one of the world's largest manufacturers of cables and cable systems.  For over 20 years, Mr. Hanke has held international management and CxO responsibilities in industrial companies and automotive suppliers. As part of his entrepreneurial responsibility, he has repeatedly and successfully implemented complex change and transformation tasks. He is now bringing this experience to the IRS Group.

Michael Hanke studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and also earned a master's degree in business administration at the University of Aix-Marseille/France. In addition to his native German, he is fluent in English and French.

After successfully completing his studies in business administration in Hamburg and Mannheim, Dennis von Bargen began his professional career in the mechanical engineering division of a medium-sized company. There he took on the position of Head of Accounting and later developed into Head of Tax, Treasury & Accounting. In this function, his focus was on international ERP projects and the seamless integration into an American industrial group.

After an exciting period as Chief Accountant at Valeo S.A., where he was responsible for all German plants in the area of accounting, he moved to the Digital Ad Tech division in Hamburg. Here Dennis von Bargen worked as Head of Finance for two years and was able to further develop his skills in a dynamic environment.

His professional career eventually led him to the IRS Group, where he joined as Director Finance in 2022. In this position, he was responsible for Group Accounting, Treasury and Compliance.

Since May 2023, Dennis von Bargen has been the Commercial Director of IRS Germany.