Andrea Rabe is Vice President of People & Culture at Wire, leading all initiatives to attract, develop, and retain top talent in the secure communications industry. With a background in economics and HR management from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, she combines strategic thinking with a people-first approach to build inclusive, high-performing teams. Before joining Wire, Andrea served as HR Lead Germany at Getronics and as Senior HR Business Partner at Holiday Pirates Group and Deutschlandradio. A certified systemic business coach, she focuses on fostering collaboration, growth, and long-term engagement across the organization.
Benjamin Schilz
CEO
Benjamin Schilz is an experienced international entrepreneur with a strong track record in delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions to the market. He was the founder of Acorus Networks, a bootstrapped cybersecurity and cloud-management company based in France, which was later merged with Volterra. During his tenure at Volterra, he secured additional funding, managed global operations and customer deployment strategy, and later negotiated and completed Volterra’s acquisition by the global technology company F5, where he then served as Vice President for Infrastructure & Operations.
Adam Low
CTO
Adam Low is a seasoned technology leader with over 30 years of experience in secure communications, enterprise infrastructure, and emerging technologies. Before joining Wire, he served as Chief Product & Technology Officer at Zivver, leading the development of encrypted messaging and AI-powered data protection solutions. Earlier in his career, he held senior technology roles including CIO and CTO across major UK and international companies, driving large-scale, secure system design and operations. As Wire’s new CTO, he will drive technology strategy and innovation for its privacy-first collaboration platform.
Oliver Brown
CCO
Oliver is a seasoned commercial leader with 15+ years of experience across the information technology, software, and services sectors, and a trusted advisor known for delivering customer-centric, value-driven outcomes. As Chief Commercial Officer at Wire, he is responsible for defining and executing the company’s go-to-market strategy across sales, marketing, customer success, partnerships, solution delivery, and revenue operations. Before joining Wire, Oliver held senior leadership roles at Zivver, Medallia, SAP, and Microsoft. Leveraging experience across both the private and public sectors, he drives sustainable revenue growth, strengthens brand presence, and ensures exceptional experiences for customers and partners.
Andrea Rabe
VP People & Culture
Thomas Nugel
VP Finance
Thomas Nugel is an accomplished finance executive with over 20 years of experience in strategic finance, M&A, and scaling high-growth companies across technology, retail, and financial services. Before joining Wire, he led finance at CEEZER and served as SVP Commercial & Finance at Storypod, where he shaped financial strategy and global partnerships. Earlier roles include Managing Director at MediaMarktSaturn, leadership at Deloitte Digital Ventures, and investment banking at UniCredit and Merrill Lynch. As Wire’s VP of Finance, Thomas focuses on automation and AI-driven insights to strengthen forecasting, controls, and decision-making.
Robert Kallwies
Director Information Security
Robert Kallwies is an information security professional with more than 20 years of experience as a cybersecurity specialist in management consultancies and international accounting firms. He was also a senior manager for information security in an enterprise organization with more than 20 legal entities, where he was responsible for the group wide IT continuity management. At Wire, Robert leads our security engineering team and monitors all relevant security certifications and compliance requirements.
