Sven-Olaf Schulze (CSEP & Certified Systems Engineer (GfSE) ® Level A) is Managing Director of LEIxCON, an engineering consulting company with a focus on Systems Engineering and Integrated Product Support (IPS/ILS/RAMS) to improve their development processes and approaches with customers across industries. 

Sven-Olaf Schulze received his diploma from the Technical University of Braunschweig in aerospace engineering with a focus on aircraft and lightweight construction. He started his career in the aerospace industry on projects and with responsibility for Ariane 4 & 5 Launcher, International Space Station (ISS) projects, MIR, Airbus A380 and A400M, Fuel Cell development with MBSE. As Vice President, he built up the Systems Engineering division in the wind power industry at Suzlon Energy GmbH. After moving to UNITY Innovation AG, he worked as a principal primarily in the areas of systems engineering, program, project and agile management, especially in the areas of product development and innovation as a consultant. 

From 2007 to 2012 he was a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg for the subject of Systems Engineering. For 5 years he was appointed to the committee of the UEEIV (Union of European Railway Engineer Associations) in the field of certification "Railway Systems Engineers". He is the author of systems engineering articles, papers and co-author of books on product development and systems engineering. 

In 2003, he was elected Vice President of the Gesellschaft für Systems Engineering e. V. (GfSE), the German Chapter of INCOSE. In 2008, he took over the chairmanship as president until 2019. From 2006 to 2009, he was the EMEA Representative for INCOSE Region III on the INCOSE Board of Directors. He contributed in local and international working groups as well as the INCOSE handbook translation into German.