Olaf Plötner is a professor at ESMT. He joined ESMT as one of the first faculty members and managing director of ESMT Customized Solutions GmbH in 2002. From 2011 to 2017, he was the dean of executive education at ESMT. Since January 2019 he has also been director of Bringing Technology to Market (BTM) Center at the ESMT. 

Before joining ESMT, he also worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt and as a director at Siemens AG in Boston (US).