Currently, Matthias Heiden is Chief Financial Officer at Software AG.

In his past career he was Chief Financial Officer of SAF-HOLLAND SE and Chief Financial Officer at SAF-HOLLAND GmbH (a subsidiary of SAF-HOLLAND SE), Vice President-Research & Development at EnOcean GmbH, Chief Financial Officer for SAP Svenska AB, Principal at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Principal at IBM Corp. and Principal at Digital Equipment Corp.

Matthias Heiden received a doctorate from Universität des Saarlandes.