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Mr Rudolf Franz,
Member of the Board,
3i
Deutschland
Rudolf P. Franz is a member of the board of 3i Deutschland GmbH
and is responsible for Bavaria and Austria. In 1995 Rudolf P. Franz
joined Technologieholding. He worked as Investment Manager focussed
on Information and Communication Technology. Two years later, he
became Equity Partner and was responsible for the investment team
in the Munich office. In the beginning of 2000, the 4 partners sold
Technologieholding to 3i Group plc. Prior to his activities for
Technologieholding, Rudolf P. Franz was Portfolio Manager for new
technology investments at Zeppelin Holding GmbH. Rudolf P. Franz
holds a master degree in industrial engineering and started his
career as trainee in the marketing and sales department at Orenstein&Koppel
AG, an international construction machinery producer. After an international
trainee program in Europe and in the US he worked as an assistant
to the board of directors. He was in charge of strategic projects
in the marketing and sales organisation of Orenstein&Koppel AG.
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Mr Thomas Krüger,
Managing Partner,
AdAstra Erste Beteiligungs GmbH
Thomas Krüger is Managing Partner of AdAstra
Erste Beteiligungs GmbH, Munich. His former responsibilities include
Head of Private Equity at HypoVereinsbank, Germany’s second
largest Bank, and various positions in Mergers & Acquisitions at
HypoVereinsbank, Deutsche Bank and Gleacher & Co, the US M&A Boutique,
both in Germany and the US. He started his career in Citibank’s
multinational customer group. Mr. Krüger holds a degree in
business from Stuttgart’s Berufsakademie Staatliche Studienakademie.
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Christian Reitberger,
Assistant Director,
Apax Partners
Christian Reitberger holds a PhD in Physics obtained sub auspiciis
prasidentis from the University of Vienna. After having worked in
various research functions he joined McKinsey & Company where he
specialized in serving fast growing high technology clients in the
fields of telecommunications, digital media and biotechnology in
their start-up phases. Christian was instrumental in building McKinsey
New Venture, the consulting offering targeted towards high growth
companies and their investors. He left as a Senior Engagement Manager
after four and a half years to join Apax Partners in October 1999
as an Assistant Director in our Munich office. Christian is responsible
for Internet and e-Commerce related investments and is member of
our telecommunications group.
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Werner Dreesbach,
Senior Principal,
Atlas Venture
Werner Dreesbach joined Atlas Venture in 1998.
Previously he was VP of Corporate Strategies at Viasoft, a position
he assumed following Viasoft’s 1996 acquisition of R&O Software-Technik
GmbH. As CEO of R&O, Werner built the company up over a period of
eleven years into a leading international provider of enterprise
repository solutions. After graduating with a degree in computer
science from the University of Bonn, he spent his early career in
IT consulting working for clients in the banking, insurance, pharmaceutical
and transportation sectors. Werner represents Atlas on the Boards
of Cassiopeia, Censio, Datango, Dock 11, Flatfox, GoIndustry, Hyperwave
and Klotz Digital.
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Ulrich Geilinger,
Private Equity Investment Advisor,
Bank Vontobel
Dr. Ulrich Geilinger (45), Private Equity Investment Advisor at
Bank Vontobel AG, Zurich. Before joining Vontobel, he was a Partner
at Apax Partners & Co., a private equity firm with offices throughout
Europe. Previously he was a Member of Senior Management at Credit
Suisse, responsible for buyout and private equity fund investments.
He started his career in private equity in 1987 as a Partner of
Innoventure. He is on the Board of Directors of several companies
including CanalWeb, Floware Wireless and Ivoclar Vivadent. Additionally,
he is a Board Member of the European Venture Capital Association.
Mr. Geilinger holds a M.Sc. in natural sciences as well as a degree
in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in technical sciences from
the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.
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Prof. Dr. Horst Domdey,
CEO,
Bio-M AG
As well as holding the position of Managing Director & CEO
at Bio-M AG, Prof. Dr. Horst Domdey is also Managing Director of
the Innovation Centre for Biotechnology (IZB), Chairman of the Munich
BioRegio Initiative and Co-founder of MediGene AG and Switch Biotech
AG. He has vast experience in the field of Biochemistry having been
a Postdoctoral fellow at numerous institutes including Max-Planck-Institut
fur Biochemie, the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
(ISREC), University of California and the California Institute of
Technology. Further to this, he was Associate Professor for Biochemistry
at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen for 4 years.Inc.
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Franc Gregori,
Head of Pharamaceutical, Healthcare and Biotech Research,
BNP Paribas
Originally qualified as a pharmacist, Franc has studied
in both the UK and the US, obtaining an MBA and Diploma in Marketing.
He worked in the drug industry, with Boots in the UK, Eli Lilly
and Pfizer, in a number of roles ranging from Sales Representative
to Senior Product Manager responsible for new product launches.
Franc moved into Investment Banking in 1989 working for Robert Fleming,
Paribas and then BZW. He returned to BNP Paribas in 1998. Franc
has been involved in a number of placements, both primary and secondary,
ranging from the Wellcome flotation to a number of Biotech deals.
He is currently responsible for Pharmaceutical, MedTech and BioTech
research within the enlarged BNP Paribas organisation.Inc.
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Dr. Holger Frommann,
Managing Director,
BVK
Dr. Holger Frommann is the Managing Director of the Bundesverband
Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften German Venture Capital
Association (BVK), Berlin. Prior to this he was involved in the
field of science and research and taught at the University of Halle/Saale
until 1990. His wide experience and knowledge of the German Venture
Capital / Private Equity market has enabled him to contribute to
various articles and books.
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Jacques Garaïalde,
Managing Director,
Carlyle Internet Partners Europe
Before joining Carlyle in 2000, Jacques Garaïalde was a Senior
Vice President at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Managing
Partner of the Paris and Brussels offices. He started the Brussels
office in 1992. From 1995 to 2000, these two offices tripled in
size. During his eighteen years with BCG, Jacques Garaialde covered
the high-tech, telecom and energy sectors on issues of strategy,
corporate development and organization. Prior to BCG, he worked
two years with Exxon. Jacques Garaïalde received his MBA in
1982 from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, and graduated in 1979 from Ecole
Polytechnique, Paris. He speaks French, English and Spanish.
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Sabine Ahlers,
CFO,
DEWB AG
Sabine Ahlers has been CFO of DEWB AG since 1st December 2000 and
is responsible for all their capital market projects (DEWB is a
listed subsidiary company of Jenoptik AG). Prior to this, she spent
nearly 5 years in the Investor Relations dept at Daimler-Benz AG
in Stuttgart before becoming Director of Investor Relations at Jenoptik
AG. Sabine Ahlers followed an internationally-based course in Business
Management at the European Business School, graduating with a degree
in Business. During this time, she gained practical experience of
various business techniques both within Germany and abroad. She
had previously trained at Siemens AG studying industrial business
where she also gained her first career experience.
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Esther Dyson, Chairman,
EDventure Holdings
Esther Dyson has devoted her life to discovering the inevitable
and promoting the possible. As an investor/commentator, she focuses
on emerging technologies (the Internet, wireless applications, artificial
intelligence, exception-handling), emerging markets (Eastern Europe)
and emerging companies (Aurigin, The Brain, Orchestream, TrustWorks,
LivePerson, BrunswickDirect, NewspaperDirect, IBS of Russia, Rambler
Group, Talus Solutions, Sourceree and others you will someday hear
of). In 1994, she was one of the first to explore the impact of
the Net on intellectual property (among other things, why Bill Gates
now plans to offer software as an online service). In 1997, she
wrote a book on the impact of the Net on individuals’ lives,
“Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age.”
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Karl Heinz Stangner,
CEO,
Ernst & Young AG
Karl-Heinz Stangner is a Certified Public Accountant (Wirtschaftsprüfer)
and Certified Tax Advisor (Steuerberater). He has more than 25 years
experience in serving national and international companies in the
industries TCE-Technologie Products, TCE-Media & Entertainment Products
and Financial Institutions. He is the Partner-in-Charge of Corporate
Finance, Munich office, with a focus on Capital Markets Advisory
Services including primarily IPO/Going Public advisory and strategy
in national and international markets/Stock exchanges.
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Falk Strascheg,
Founder,
Extorel
Falk F. Strascheg (60) is an electronic engineer and experienced
entrepreneur. He is active for Extorel, one of the leading German
Venture Capital Fund of Fund corporations which he founded in 1998.
In 1987, he established Technologieholding, grew it to the leading
German Venture Capital company and sold it in 2000 to 3i.
Earlier, in 1971, he launched Laser-Optronic
in Munich. In less than ten years, the enterprise became one of
the leading European producers of laser systems, with branches in
Brussels, Milan and Paris. In 1981, Falk Strascheg sold his enterprise
to Coherent Inc. of Palo Alto, California, the world leader in laser
manufacturing.
Falk Strascheg began his professional career
at NCR Augsburg. There, as division manager, he headed quality control
and technology transfer between the American parent company and
NCR Germany.
Falk Strascheg was elected president of the
European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) for the fiscal year
1997/98. He is also currently on supervisory, advisory and governing
boards at various German and foreign high-tech enterprises.
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Emre Yigit, Executive
Vice President,
FinansInvest
In 1991-1994, Mr Emre Yigit created the research department at Global
Securities in Istanbul. Subsequently, he worked in London for UBS
and UBS Warburg as the senior Turkish analyst. In July 2000, he
joined FinansInvest as the head of research. Mr Yigit has also assisted
in the drafting of capital markets legislation in Turkey. He graduated
from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and
Economics.
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Curt Winnen, CEO,
FNT
In 1982 Curt Winnen established himself as
a lawyer, specialising in Forensic Civil Law for investors damaged
in the grey money market. From 1985 to May 1996 he was the Executive
Partner in a family business with 700 employees in Europe and Africa.
Since May 1996 he has been active in areas of industrial and trade
associations. He took over the executive position in FNT and in
1999 became co-founder of the Munich Business Angel Network.
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Toon den Heijer,
Executive Director,
Gilde Investment
Management
Toon den Heijer obtained a degree in electronics at the Haarlem
Poly Technical College in 1976 and subsequently obtained a Masters
degree in Business Administration at the Twente Technical University
in 1982. During his studies he started SDH, an agency specialized
in application software. Prior to joining Gilde, Toon worked 3 years
as Investment Manager at MIP Equity Fund (MIP). Before MIP, he worked
4 years for ASEA Robotics in a number of functions. Toon is Board
Member in a number of portfolio companies e.g. Customer Dialogue
Services (Belgium), Data Distilleries (Netherlands), Gizmoz (USA),
Greenfingers (UK), Ilse Media Group (Netherlands), LeatherXchange
(Spain), LetsBuyIt (Sweden) and SmartBunkers (Netherlands).
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Dr. Eli Opper,
Venture Partner,
Giza Venture Capital
Dr. Opper
joined Giza in 2000 after a twenty seven-year career at Rafael,
Israel's leading armaments corporation and authority on military
research and development. In the last decade, he held the positions
of Chief of Staff, VP of R&D, VP of Advanced Topics, and General
Manager of the Electronic Systems Division. Dr. Opper served as
a member of numerous professional committees, published papers,
and was a lecturer in the areas of computers, R&D, and management
at academic institutions and professional seminars. He has served
as a director and chairman of high tech companies and as a member
of the boards of public organizations. Dr. Opper held a research
degree equivalent to Professor and holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees
in Electrical Engineering, from the Technion – Israel Institute
of Technology in Haifa, as well as a PhD degree in Computer Engineering
from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Connie Lindgreen,
Vice President, NetGen Business EMEA
IBM Corporation
Connie Lindgreen’s extensive executive and managerial
experience within IBM encompasses both widespread industry-specific
knowledge -Telecommunications, Travel and Transportation, Insurance
- and a broad range of disciplines - sales, manufacturing, and product
marketing. As a US-national who has worked in London and Copenhagen
for the last 11 years in European and Worldwide positions, Connie’s
ability to bridge cultures, significant cross-cultural negotiation
and communication skills have been demonstrated in her effective
leadership and general management for worldwide teams ranging in
size from 85 to 1,000 employees. She is articulate in both US and
UK English, reasonably fluent in Danish, and competent in French
and culturally comfortable in all geographies. Her record demonstrates
consistent overachievement of all assigned goals and the ability
to identify early and respond quickly to market trends, while building
executive depth in her teams.
2000: VP, Innovations and Offerings, NetGeneration
Business, Europe/Middle East/Africa
1998 - 2000: Vice President, Global E-commerce Solution Sales
1992 -1998: Director, Software Distribution and Fulfilment, Europe/Latin
America.
1989 - 1992: Director, International Air Transport Marketing
1990 -1992: Director, Communications Industry Marketing Programs
1968 - 1990: positions in IBM product management and marketing,
planning, and a variety of sales and technical positions.
Board Memberships
Board Member, American Chamber of Commerce in Denmark Advisory Board,
Copenhagen Capacity Advisory Board, Invest in Denmark Fulbright
Commission
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Dr. Matthias Allgaier,
Managing Director,
Internet Capital Group
Matthias is a Managing Director of Internet Capital Group’s
European operation focusing on investments. Prior to setting up
ICG¹s European operations in 1999, Matthias spent three years with
Apax Partners, where he headed the software and services divisions
of their Information Technology group and was responsible for generating
and executing deals as well as working with portfolio companies
as a member of their board of directors. Prior to Apax, Matthias
was associated with Broadview International and General Atlantic
Partners. At General Atlantic, Matthias executed a number of transactions
across Europe.
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Mr Jonathan Medved,
General Partner & Founder,
Israel Seed Partners
Jonathan Medved is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Israel
Seed Partners, one of Israel’s leading VC Funds. He was a Founder
Executive Vice President of Marketing at MERET Optical Communications,
Inc. (Santa Monica, CA) between 1982-1990. MERET, a pioneer in fiber
optic transmission systems for video, was acquired by Amoco Corporation
in 1990. Mr. Medved then came to Israel and became active in venture
capital investments such as Ligature (acquired by Wizcom) and Accent
Software. At Accent (Nasdaq: ACNT) Mr. Medved was part of the founding
management team and served as Executive Vice President of Marketing
between 1992-1994. Mr. Medved currently serves on the Board of Directors
of Compugen, Business Layers, Ness Technologies, Menta, Earthnoise
and Native Networks.
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Stan Yakatan,
Chairman,
Katan Associates
Mr Stan
Yakatan has founded and co-founded nine companies; served as Chairman,
CEO or President of seven companies; raised in excess of $200 million
through both public and private financing; and currently serves
on a number of corporate boards. Mr Yakatan has served in senior
management positions with New England Nuclear (a Division of E.I.
Dupont) and ICN Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for strategy
related to their biotechnology business areas as well as having
full profit and loss responsibility. He has also completed numerous
acquisitions and licensing deals in the biopharmaceutical marketplace.
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Dr Christian Zschocke,
Managing Partner,
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Christian Zschocke is the Managing Partner of the Frankfurt office.
His practice concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, as well as
on EU and German antitrust law. He has been the external adviser
to the German Takeover Commission for several years. Dr. Zschocke
is a regular speaker at seminars, and an author of numerous publications
on corporate and antitrust law, including a commentary on the German
Takeover Code. Dr. Zschocke, a German national, has been a member
of the Cologne Bar since 1990. In addition to earning a doctorate
in law from Hamburg University, he is qualified as a Licenciado
en derecho under Spanish law.
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Dr. Thomas Henkel,
Head of Research,
Medigene AG
Dr. Thomas Henkel has been Head
of Research at MediGene AG since January 2000. From 1995 until 2000
he was Director of the company’s Molecular Cardiology Program.
Prior to joining MediGene he worked for the U.S. biotechnology company
Tularik Inc., San Francisco. Dr. Henkel studied Biology and Biochemistry
in Göttingen, Jerusalem, San Diego and Munich, from where he
received his Ph.D. He has co-authored 16 publications and 13 patents.
Dr. Henkel is married and has a son.
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Mr Peter Friedli,
President & CEO,
New Venturetec
Peter Friedli has been the Principal of Friedli Corporate Finance
since its inception in 1986. He worked in the field of international
management consulting for service and industrial companies in Europe
and the United States from 1978 to 1986. Friedli has over a decade
of entrepreneurial experience as an independent investment manager
for Venture Capital. He has held an interest in more than 120 venture
companies and has been instrumental in successfully setting-up and
supporting the growth of numerous High-Tech companies in the United
States. Peter Friedli is actively involved in the management of
several private and public companies. He is President and Investment
Manager of New Venturetec, a Swiss publicly-traded investment company
which invests in well-selected US venture companies in the areas
of Biotechnology, Communications, Technology and Internet.
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Martti Malka, Partner,
Nokia Venture Partners
Martti has more than 15 years
experience working in the telecommunications industry. Prior to
starting the Nokia Venture Fund’s European office in London,
Martti was the Managing Director of Nokia Mobile Phones in Australia.
Before then Martti was in charge of Business Development and M&A
in the Nokia Corporate Head Office in Helsinki. During his long
tenure with the Nokia Group Martti has also held several Sales &
Marketing management roles in the Nokia Networks business unit.
Martti holds a M.Sc. in Telecommunications from Helsinki University
of Technology and an MBA from IMD of Lausanne, Switzerland. Martti
serves on the Board of Directors of 12Snap and Intelligame.
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Dr Jürg Meier,
Executive Director,
Novartis Venture Fund
Since 1998 Juerg Meier, Dr. sc.techn.ETH, is the Executive Director
of the Novartis Venture Fund. Previously, he worked for over 25
years in various international functions for Sandoz Pharma Ltd.:
as Head Research & Development of Biochemie Ges.m.b.H. in Austria;
Head of Research & Development in the US, Head of Research & Development
Sandoz Pharma worldwide and President of Sandoz Pharma Japan.
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Oliver Novick,
Partner,
Pino Venture Partners
Oliver Novick started his career
in 1969 with General Telephone & Electronics in New York and served
in various capacities in Europe, based in Milan. From 1984 to 1989,
he was Group Vice President of Corporate Development of Olivetti;
in this period he and his team concluded more than 50 investments
in Europe and North America in large and medium size companies and
start-up companies, representing total investments of over US $600
million. He was also responsible for the Group’s venture capital
activities in the US and Europe. From 1989 to 1994, he was Group
Vice President for Strategy and Development of the Fininvest Group.
He was involved in all of the areas in which the group was active:
television, cinema, publishing, financial services and retail. Oliver
Novick then rejoined Olivetti in 1995 as part of Olivetti Telemedia
and served as CEO of Interactive Telemedia S.p.A., covering Olivetti’s
initiatives in Italia Online, Cybermercato, Electronic Commerce
and Opera Multimedia.
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Chemi Peres, Managing
General Partner & Founder,
Polaris Venture Capital
Chemi Peres is a true pioneer of the venture capital industry in
Israel. In 1992, he founded and managed Mofet Israel Technology
Fund, which invested in several companies that went public, including
Netro Corporation, Orckit Communications, VocalTec, Paradigm Geophysical,
Precise, and BreezeCOM. Other Mofet startups were acquired by US
corporations, including Scorpio (sold to US Robotics), NiceCom (sold
to 3Com), and Shany Computers (sold to Intel). Prior to Mofet, Chemi
Peres was Director of Business Development and Marketing at Decision
Systems in Israel (DSI), and a Senior Consultant to Israel Aircraft
Industries (IAI). In 1996, he co-founded the Polaris Venture Capital
partnership, which has been instrumental in building an in-house
portfolio of services to help start-up companies at the various
stages of their development. True to his pioneering spirit, Chemi
Peres opened the Polaris VC office in Silicon Valley in 1998 and
personally ran the day-to-day operations during its first year.
Chemi Peres is one of the founders of the Israel Venture Association.
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Kim Ludvigsen,
SECA
Kim Ludvigsen has lived in Switzerland for 24 years, but is originally
from Denmark. He is a graduate engineer from the ETH and holds an
MBA from Insead. His professional experience is within IT consulting
(Andersen Consulting), M&A and Corporate Finance (Apax Partners
and ATAG Ernst & Young). For the last three years he has worked
as an independent consultant for large telcos and also founded and
supported several start-ups in the technology sector. He recently
joined Futura Capitalis an Director for the Scandinavian market.
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Keith Mullins, Head
of EIB Technology Group
Schroder Salomon Smith Barney
A Managing Director and member of the EIB Commitment Committee,
Keith Mullins heads the EIB Technology Group at Schroder Salomon
Smith Barney. Mr. Mullins holds a BA in Philosophy and an MBA from
the College of William and Mary. In addition, he studied for two
years at the University of St Andrews in Scotland as a James Blair
Fellow. Prior to joining the European Investment Bank, Keith directed
the Emerging Grown Stock Group at Salomon Smith Barney in New York.
From 1983-1991, Mr. Mullins held a similar position at Morgan Stanley
& Co., Inc. He has been on the Institutional Investor All-America
Research Team since 1988 as first or second team. Keith joined our
organisation nine years ago and has 17 years of experience in the
investment business.
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Oliver Haeggberg,
Investment Director,
T-Venture
Oliver Haeggberg joined the management team of T-Venture as Investment
Director in 1999. He is responsible for national projects for the
international investment activities and has extensive experience
in investment management and finance. He represents T-Venture in
the decision boards of 2 funds in Israel and coordinates the U.S.
activities of T-Venture of America, Inc. Previously, he took part
in private equity transactions in former East Germany in the privatization
process for the German state-owned Treuhandanstalt. At Thyssen Handelsunion,
he developed a corporate wide telecommunications strategy and took
part in a French mobile GSM licence subscription. His in-depth knowledge
of international high-tech companies was shaped by professional
experience at Arthur Andersen and Grand Thornton.
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Friedrich Bornikoel,
Managing Partner,
TVM Techno Venture Management
The investment activities of Friedrich Bornikoel include companies
in the software, networking, telecommunications, and semiconductor
markets. He represents TVM on the Board of Directors of alfabet
meta-modeling, eCustomers, Impress Software, SCM Microsystems, Tantau
Software, as well as Virtual Photonics. Prior to joining TVM, he
was responsible for some EURO 500 million of public investment in
various electronic industry projects administrated by the German
Federal Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT). He was also
a project leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State
Research in Freiburg.
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Dr. Christian Waldvogel,
Director,
Viventure Partners
Prior to joining Viventures,
Christian Waldvogel was heading Intel Capital’s investment
activities in France, the Benelux and Southern Europe. He opened
two new markets for Intel Capital by completing Intel’s first
investments in France and Portugal. As of the end of 1999, Intel
Capital had a worldwide portfolio of 350 companies valued at about
$8 billion. Prior to Intel Capital, Christian Waldvogel occupied
European-wide responsibilities for Intel Corporation in the broadband
communication space (based in Munich) and for the European Telecommunications
Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT) in the digital television space
(based in Paris). Christian Waldvogel holds a Ph.D. in Cryptography
and a Master Degree in Telecommunications from the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Zurich. He also holds a Bachelor of Science
and Engineering from Princeton University, US.
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Wilfried Verstraete,
CFO,
Wanadoo
Wilfried Verstraete was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Wanadoo
on September 1, 2000. 42 years old, he is in charge of the financial
management of the multimedia activities of the France Telecom group,
after 5 years as Financial Director of Mobistar. In September 1998,
he promoted the launch of Mobistar on the Brussels Stock Exchange.
The operation, which was a great success, made it possible to put
some 20% of the shares into public ownership. Previously, Wilfried
Verstraete has held various management posts in Belgium and abroad,
within the Belgian Recticel Group, which manufactures polyurethane
foam. Wilfried Verstraete is an economic sciences graduate from
VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). He also has a Masters in Financial
Management from WLEKHO (Vlaamse Ekonomische Hogeschool-Belgium)
and in 1993 followed the International Executive Program at INSEAD.
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Alf Grunwald,
Managing Director,
Warburg Pincus
Alf Grunwald has been with Warburg Pincus since February 2000. He
has been associated with Warburg Pincus as a member of the Technical
Advisory Board and surfed as a Board Member for various Warburg
Pincus portfolio companies since 1997. Prior to joining Warburg
Pincus, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Deloitte
and Touche Consulting Group-ICS and Vice President of Sales and
Marketing of SAP Canada. Alf Grunwald is a Director of APP Group
CEE B.V. and Shinka Technologies AG. Education: Fachhochschule Offenburg,
Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur
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