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Why Lucanet

Empowering future-ready CFOs for 25 years

The role of the modern CFO has evolved from a support function to a strategic leadership position. Today's finance executives are tasked with navigating complex economic, technological, and competitive landscapes, while also providing organization-wide guidance to drive growth and ensure compliance.

Finance teams need a solution that’s intuitive, efficient, and built with the specific demands of finance professionals in mind. Lucanet’s CFO Solution Platform automates complex financial processes, freeing you to focus on what matters most: making high-value decisions that impact your organization’s bottom line.

Our commitment

Creating ease of mind for the CFO office

Lucanet exists to make life better for finance teams. To provide the smartest solutions that deliver the best results. To make what works work even better. Day in and day out, we challenge the status quo and harness our creativity to undercover intelligent solutions that deliver the best results. Fueled by a culture of constant innovation and relentless in our pursuit of simplicity, we empower our customers to lead with ease.

Trusted partner of the CFO office

We focus our passion and expertise on the performance and success of the CFO office. Every day we act as a trusted partner to help finance teams lead with ease and measurable impact.

Market standard for ease

This is not our claim; this is what our customers tell us. Our intuitive interface combined with intelligent, out-of-the-box solutions allow the CFO office to fulfill its strategic and reporting responsibilities with unrivaled ease and speed.

Purpose-built for finance leaders

Built for finance people by finance people, our portfolio of use-case-based solutions comprises strategic and reporting needs and makes complex tasks simple.

Single source of financial truth

Lucanet eliminates the risks associated with manual entries, data uncertainty, and disconnected databases. The result is a single source of financial truth across the entire organization that provides the CFO office with a trusted and accurate view of business performance.

Fast implementation and adoption

Lucanet can be rolled out in a matter of weeks across an organization and easily adopted by financial teams with minimal training, allowing the CFO office to realize quick time to value.

Leadership

Executive Board Members

Successful innovation and high-quality services would never be possible without strong, open and trust-based leadership. This is achieved by our exceptional management team.

Chief Executive Officer

Elias Apel

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Elias Apel

Chief Executive Officer

After studying business administration in Ingolstadt (Germany) and Nice (France) with specializations in international management, accounting and controlling, Elias Apel spent more than a decade working in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance consulting. In 2018, he took on the responsibility of expanding the international partner channel for Lucanet and in 2020 for all international go-to-market activities in existing as well as new growth markets. 

Elias joined the Lucanet board in May 2022 as CFO before transitioning into the role of CEO in October 2023. As CEO, he is responsible for strategy, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and business development.

Elias Apel

Chief Revenue Officer

Joris van Leeuwen

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Joris van Leeuwen

Chief Revenue Officer

Joris has more than 16 years of experience in the software industry, proven across several roles as Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Director. With a strong background in sales, product (marketing) management, go-to-market strategies and value creation, he is experienced at leading global teams and delivering tangible results while driving growth and operational excellence. 

Throughout his career, Joris has specialized in financial services, accounting, and business intelligence. As Lucanet’s CRO, he is responsible for marketing, sales, and customer excellence.

Joris van Leeuwen

Chief People Officer

Elena Aubell

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Elena Aubell

Chief People Officer

After training as a legal and notary assistant, Elena Aubell studied economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. The field of human resources (HR) was already a focus for her during her studies.

After completing her studies, she worked in HR from 2005, focusing on talent acquisition, development and retention as well as executive development and advisory. Before joining Lucanet in 2017, she worked at well-known companies such as Rocket Internet SE and Amazon. 

At Lucanet, Elena targets the experience she has gained toward the areas of organizational development and strategy consulting as well as change management. As CPO, she is responsible for people, organization, legal/compliance, ESG, and workplace experience.

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Chief Technology Officer

Kevin Smith

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Kevin Smith

Chief Technology Officer

After studying engineering at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, Kevin worked as a software engineer at IBM and then Microsoft. At Microsoft he was a Technical Lead software engineer in Redmond, WA where he shipped several software products and was awarded six software design patents for his work. He went on to spend 10 years building derivatives trading platforms for large investment banks before working for Fastmarkets as CTO and then Hg Capital as a Portfolio CTO.

Kevin is experienced at building world-class SaaS platforms from the ground up as well as transforming on-prem software to SaaS. He has extensive experience building and scaled high performing engineering teams deployed both on and near shore. As Lucanet’s CTO, Kevin is responsible for technology, engineering, product and IT.

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The core of Lucanet

Our values

Our values are the foundation of our culture, guiding our actions and resonating through all aspects of our work.

We challenge ourselves to do better every day

By pushing ourselves to do better today than yesterday, we expand the boundaries of innovation and excellence in all that we do.

We build trust through our actions

Passionate about exceeding our customers’ expectations, we deliver added value in all we do. The results are best-in-class solutions and a foundation of trust.

We value our people and the communities we serve

United in our knowledge that we are better together, we cherish our people, cultivating a culture of kindness. Together, we thrive with integrity and respect.

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