ANDREAS RIEDEL
CEO & Founder
Transformation management, strategy of intellectual capital and human resources
Education: Hamburg, St. Gallen and Barcelona. Business administration, economics and law.
Post-qualification experience: Over 25 years’ experience in trade and restructuring management (national/international), including the following positions: CEO Rosenthal GmbH; executive Schott Zwiesel AG (Zwiesel) and head of division Schott Group (Mainz); CEO Schott Pasabahce (Munich); manager, Höffner GmbH (Berlin), chairman of GF T-Punkt GmbH / Telekom (Bonn), chairman of GF real / METRO (Dusseldorf), CEO Intershop AG (Jena, San Francisco), CEO Career-Lounge AG and ICL Holding AG (Switzerland). Membership of various boards of directors. BWA senator in Berlin (Bundesverband für Wirtschaftsförderung und Außenwirtschaft = Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade). Member of the Business & Innovation Steinbeis Executive Magazine advisory council.
MICHAEL KOTTYSCH
Think Tank Member
Restructuring management, Web expert
Education: Study of IT electronics, IT at the TFH (technical college) Berlin.
Post-qualification experience: Setup and restructuring of companies, turnaround and interims management, sales and marketing development, personnel management (soft skills development); M & A acquisition, management consultancy, establishment coach.
LEO KELLER
Think Tank Member
Semantic Web (2.0/3.0), Knowledge Management, Change Management und Learning Organisation
Education:Graduate of ETHZ (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich )(Chemistry), Semantic Web Technology – Semantic Universe, San Jose, CA (US),Change Management - A.T. Kearney Academy , Learning Organization – Arthur D. Little Camp, OD Organisation development– SAAP (Swiss consortium for applied psychology)), Systemic Consulting – GDI / Irwing & Ella Borwick , Environmental Chemistry – EAWAG / Prof. Werner Stumm.
Post-qualification experience:Blue Ocean – iccss GmbH, managing partner; NETBREEZE GmbH Co-CEO/managing partner; Sustainable Consulting Group, Think Tools Director Switzerland; A.T. Kearney (Schweiz AG) Co Head / Deputy Director Switzerland; Arthur D. Little (Switzerland) AG, Manager; Ökoscience AG Co-owner and CEO.
RALF GRUNDHOFF
Think Tank Member
Telecommunications, tariff management, retail und franchise systems, CRM and channel management
Education: Ruhr-University Bochum: Mechanical Engineering, University of Cologne: Teaching qualification for commercial vocational schools, graduate in business management; final year project: "Efficiency in electricity supply: terms, drivers and possible strategies", university degree in business administration.
Post-qualification experience: Independent company adviser in telecommunications and retail; successful projects in the areas of distribution, trade and franchise systems in telecommunications sector; general manager V5 direct sales T-Mobile and division head for expansion and strategy, T-Punktgesellschaft; general manager channel management and sales control T-Mobile; project manager for change management T-Mobile sales and fixed networks sales DTAG.
PETER VEDDER
Think Tank Member
Finance management, controlling, interims manager, cccounting / balances, restructuring
Education: Business economics at the technical university of Berlin, industrial management, graduate in business administration, accountancy (IHK=Chamber of Industry and Commerce).
Post-qualification experience: Chemistry, plant engineering, energy management, trade / crafts, services / new media, recycling, foodstuffs. Intershop Communications AG, Jena, Finance Director Responsibilities: Finance and accounting, salaries and wages accounting, investor relations. Member of the management team / CFO. GRIAG Glasrecycling AG, Werder bei Neuruppin, head of finance and accounting / head of business administration. Georg von Opel GmbH group, Frankfurt/Main, supervision of restructuring concept as an administrative head/interim manager. ALBA Glas-Recycling GmbH, Velten bei Berlin, administrative head off three companies within the ALBA-Gruppe in the glass and plastics recycling sector. ZLU (centre for logistics and planning) GmbH, Berlin.
DR. DIRK PLAGEMANN
Think Tank Member
Company law, insolvency, supervisory board / advisory board law, restructuring
Education: Law and political science in Bonn and Freiburg/Breisgau. Intermediate examination in political science, two state examinations in law (Baden Württemberg), graduation at the Max Planck Institute for foreign and international private law, Freiburg/Br., including as contributing speaker. Knowledge of English for business purposes, extended periods in the US during education (German-American Board of Trade in Los Angeles) and graduation (UC Berkeley, University of Illinois in Chicago and Columbia University, New York City).
Post-qualification experience: Senior partner in the Stuttgart law firm Thümmel, Schütze & Partner, head of Dresden office since 1990, with focus on company-, insolvency- and inheritance law.
PROF. DR. JO GROEBEL
Think Tank Member
Networking, PR, conflict research, sustainability management, reputation management
Education: Degree in Psychology RWTH Aachen, Dr.phil. Philosophical faculty RWTH Aachen (very good); 1990 appointment to the chair of Media Psychology at the University of Utrecht.
Post-qualification experience: Positions including director of the Deutsche Digital Institut, Berlin; previously held positions including General Director of the European Media Institute and lectureship in Media Psychology at the University of Utrecht. Fellow of the ‘Centre for the Digital Future’ at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; visiting professor at UCLA, St.Gallen college and the University of Amsterdam. Research in cooperation with Harvard, Cambridge, Yale and Columbia universities; publication of hundreds of specialist articles (including in the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences).Communication, regular reviewer for the Guggenheim Foundation.
PETER GRIESSHABER
Think Tank Member
Advertising, marketing concepts and strategies, web design
Education: Graduate in Industrial Engineering (technical college), study at Media College, Stuttgart. Over 25 years’ experience in marketing, company communication, advertising, sales promotion, public relations, event marketing and online marketing, web and e-business solutions (in various sectors / national / international).
Post-qualification experience: Various of the top 100 marketing and advertising agencies, including account manager at Karius&Partner (Leonberg); group head, creation and consulting Stoll&Fischbach (Herrenberg), ceative director PPWS (Frankfurt), creative director Bates (Frankfurt), marketing director, Schott (Zwiesel), CEO Griesshaber, Gries & Garcia advertising agency (Schönaich), CEO GSK advertising agency (Stuttgart), CEO and founder GRIESSHABER advertising agency GmbH (Stuttgart).
PROF. DR. HABIL FRANK KEUPER
Think Tank Member
Strategy management, strategy controlling, TIME and convergence management, restructuring management, cost and production management
Education: Study of business science at the Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Westphalia and graduation in the area of business administration at the University of Hamburg (Chair in industrial management Prof. Dr of Science Manfred Layer). Postdoctoral lecture in business sciences at the University of Hamburg (Chair of industrial science).
Post-qualification experience: Executive publisher of the business management journal ‘Business + Innovation’, Gabler-Verlag, published quarterly from 4/2010. Academic director and manager of T-mobile Business School telephone sales. (Sponsor T-Mobile Deutschland) with headquarters in Hamburg at the School of Management and Innovation, Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin.
DR. WOLFGANG BORNTRÄGER
Think Tank Member
Personnel strategies, coaching, team-building
Education: Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen and Georg-August-University, Göttingen. Economics, Business administration, Graduate in Business administration / Doctor of politics University seminar of economy (USW), Schloss Gracht, Erftstadt. Scholarship holder within the SEL foundation (now Alcatel SEL foundation) in the Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany. Graduate Dr. of politics (University of Göttingen / 1986).
Post-qualification experience: Senior consultant & head of transition programme (owner, director) Lucas Group GmbH; associate partner Reflecta - Partner for management and organisational development; shareholder / partner Bornträger&Partner. 10 years’ OFK in the human resources division (head of personnel division HERTIE Waren- und Kaufhaus GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, subsequently director and personnel manager, Rosenthal AG.
PATRICK LAUER
Think Tank Member
International sales, key account management, CSR, integrated supply chain, specialist for asian markets
Education:University education in St. Gallen and Tokyo, Graduate in foreign trade economics and completed the Executive Training Programme (ETP), Japan.
Post-qualification experience: More than 25 years of experience in the field of international sales and marketing (national / international), including Export Manager in Rosenthal AG (Selb), Sales Manager Schott Zwiesel AG (Zwiesel), Centre of Excellence Leader in Dester. ACS (Airline Catering Service), Vice President in Waterford Wedgewood Japan and CEO, De’Longhi Japan.
