Dr. Stefan Niemand
As Head of Integrated Planning/Steering Product at Audi he helps to shape the future of electric mobility.

Sonny Caberwal
Serial Entrepreneur of companies like Bond and Union Member House and inspired by the power of human connection.

Daniel Krauss
Co-Founder of Flixbus and as CIO responsible for the technology sector.

Dr. Stefan Sambol
Managing Partner and Managing Director of Ommax: a digital consultancy. He has founded multiple companies and will share his experience on developing digital business models.

Patrick „Paddy“ Bohrer
Co-Founder of FLSK and a serial angel investor with a Family Business Background with a passion for car racing – a perfect fit for our Global Week!

Prof. Dr. Hans Jung
MBS Professor for International Marketing and Senior Manager at Management Consultancy UNITY AG.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Scheck
MBS Professor for Entrepreneurship and CEO of the European Center for Social Finance.

Prof. Dr. Heiko Seif
MBS Professor for International Management and Senior Manager at Management Consultancy UNITY AG.

Prof. Dr. Harald Müllich
MBS Professor for Intercultural Management, also teaches at faculties all over the world and will share his great experiences on intercultural behavior.

Prof. Christian Schmidkonz
MBS Professor for International Business Administration and Managerial Economics. Since 2014 he also offers the exciting course on  “Success Factor Happiness”.

Prof. Dr. “Micha” Bergfeld
Founder and CEO of Courage Group of Companies. Micha is a serial entrepreneur, business school professor and advisor to some of the world’s leading business families.

Eric Saint-Andre
Founder and Managing Director of ASA Advisory Services, a leading Innovation Consultancy based in Singapore. He has worked with hundreds of corporate innovation teams and accelerated start-ups – we are thrilled to get an insight on his expertise.

Shlomi Selim Benbasat
Founder and CEO of Ennovation Group, a global corporation which bridges the gap between industry 1.0 to 4.0 in the area of telecommunication, oil & gas, energy, water and sustainability. He worked with hundreds of global enterprise marketing and innovation teams and successfully grew tens of start-ups.

Conrado Fernando
After being a successful lawyer for over a decade, Conrado now fully lives his passion of photography and sharing his story and experiences as an entrepreneur on stage. Feel free to Instagram him!

Johannes Ritz, MA, MIB
Director Courage Latin America. Johannes advises the business families in Latin America and teaches at Munich Business School.

Georg Bauer
Georg Bauer is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Fair.com. The us-based tech company provides an alternative to traditional car long-term financing and leasing commitments by enabling to drive a car of your choice and return it at any time via an app. Georg is widely recognized as an innovative leader in auto finance and spent his career shaping financial services for leading automotive companies on a global scale.

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Gregor Grandl
As Senior Partner at Porsche Consulting, Gregor leads Porsche Consulting’s global competence center for digitization & innovation, which focuses on digital transformation, industry 4.0, applied AI, innovation, and new mobility. He has more than eighteen years of management consulting experience and is the responsible author of the study “The Future of Vertical Mobility – sizing the market for passenger, inspection, and goods services until 2035” sponsored by Porsche SE and Volkswagen AG and the key partner for the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR).

Benedikt von Schoeler
Managing Partner at Vito Ventures, active investor, business angel and M&A advisor for over 10 years in public and private equity at various growth stages. Started his career in internal audit and M&A and worked 6 years for HgCapital, a highly regarded software, tech-enabled services and industrial tech private equity fund (AUM > EUR 10bn). Avid traveller and sportsman and a great addition to our GW!

Volker Meinlschmidt
Managing Partner of Grupo Transoceanica from Ecuador. He took over his family business and knows all about overcoming obstacles. His experience sharing session on “How the Next Generation is transforming the Family Business through Innovation and Passion” will be a true inspiration not only for our family business participants!

Costanza Carissimo
Costanza is an Associate at Cathay Innovation, an international venture capital fund focusing on early growth companies, with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Munich and Shanghai. Prior to joining Cathay Innovation, Costanza spent some time at Cherry Ventures, an early stage VC fund based in Berlin, working for the Boston Consulting Group in Milan as well as experimental research on low energy astroparticle physics at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. Costanza holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from King’s College London and a Master’s degree in Physics from Imperial College London.