DBU Digital Business University of Applied Sciences

Teaching digital entrepreneurship & lifelong passion for learning

Professor

Wo/men Inc. 

Board Member

DGE Digitized German Engineering 

Co-Founder

Artus Real GmbH

Geschäftsführer

Stiftung für Kinder und Jugendliche 

Charitable Foundation (Stiftung) for children in need

Vorstandsmitglied

Family Office

Member of the Supervisory Board / Managing Partner

Leonhardt Rechtsanwälte

Lawyer

AVE & YOU

Co-Founder and CEO AVE & YOU

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Partners LLP,

Consultant

kloeckner.i GmbH

Managing director, COO & Consultant

*Co-Founder of AVE & YOU . A beauty-tech company launched in 2018 together with dermatologists and our customers. The first in Europe to personalize skincare online by using technology and data. 

*Co-Founder of DGE Digitized German Engineering (Technology Provider).

*Managing Director and investor Family Office 

*Professor for ‘Digital Entrepreneurship’

*High profile manager, lawyer & investor, based in Berlin, formerly working as COO, MD and advisor for corporates & private equity funds.

*Passionate about entrepreneurship, startups, venture capital and private equity. Active player in the Berlin startup ecosystem as Angel and strategic adviser/board member for several companies.

*Former member of senior leadership team of Rocket Internet SE, helped to grow Rocket from a small startup to Europe's largest tech company including IPO work in 2014. Executing board decisions within the global Rocket startup network in 110+ countries, worked with 50+ founder teams.

*Former COO/MD kloeckner.i - the digital hub of Klöckner&Co SE (one of the largest producer-independent distributors of steel and metal products) - and kloeckner.v – the corporate venture capital fund specialized in investing in disruptive B2B business models that fit Klöckner's digital strategy.

Dr Franziska Leonhardt

Ronald Schranz International Consultancy

Honest senior advisory in critical matters, supporting decision makers since 1991

www.ronschranz.com

Owner, Chief Consultant

Brunswick Group

International advisory on political and relations in transactions and crises

Partner, Office Founder & Head, Head Central & Eastern Europe, member European board

Adviser to leading international and Austrian companies on critical issues, politics, litigations, transactions, governance, responsibility, sustainability

www.ronschranz.com

Figure Skating / Ice Dancing, Tennis, Western Riding

Performance sports

Hauska Austria & CEE / Fleishman-Hillard

Strategic Relations advisory in Austria and CEE with own offices across CEE, affiliate of Fleishman-Hillard for CEE

Managing Director

Icons GmbH / Porter Novelli

PR firm specialising in technology and digital, affiliate of Porter Novelli, later sold to biggest Austrian PR firm

Managing Partner

Two major political public-law associations in the Austrian economic and social partnership

Modernisation of communications, successful management and campaigning in existential crises and conflicts

Head Of Communications, spokesperson

Austrian Parliament

Reporting and media relations from the Austrian parliament

Media Services Manager

to Alex Antonitscn at Tennis World Tour and in Davis Cup

Coach and manager

Masters Tennis School

Owner

Certified executive consultant
with focus on actioned strategy, business facilitation, responsibility and sustainability, relations and reputation, transactions (M&A, IPO) and transformations, restructurings and reorganisations, crises, conflicts, litigations.

Supporting decision-makers, providing value results since 1991, resolving challenging, high-risk, often high-profile situations, projects and issues for more than 30 years internationally, applying science and philosophy.

Covering all stakeholders and matters, incl media, politics, regulation, capital markets; responsibility, sustainability, governance, compliance.

Strong networks:
in business, politics, institutions, media, diplomacy, science, arts, culture, sports

Stock exchange partner (Vienna)
Registered lobbyist
Business Club board member

Mission: Creating Trust

Applied Code of Conduct
for Interest Representatives of EU
http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_interinstit/2021/611/oj

15y active competitive athlete
10y in world sports business
20y in leading management functions
22y in large organisations
10y in public-political organisations
20y with big pr network companies/partnerships
25y private sector
30y entrepreneurial activity
20y owner/self-employed
25y transaction, strategy, stakeholder/policy advisor, communications & crisis/conflict manager
30y complexity theory & philosophy
400+ projects and cases
40 countries of activity in 3 continents
All situations, stakeholders, industries, media

Approach:
Straightforward best-interest advice.
Realism and working for right outcome.
Non babble and faking.
Doing what is necessary and right in the case,
with discreetness and ethics.
Applying critical thinking and theory
to help solve difficult problems and conflicts, promoting correct, fair, candid, respectful interactions,
building trust as ideal provision.

Theoretical basis:
Philosophy/Ethics and Complexity Science – applied to Analysis and Strategy, Stakeholder Theory, Relations and Communication Theory, Management and Organisation, Crisis Management.
Crisis Management System, certifiable standard.

Background:
Competitive sports (figure skating, tennis, Western riding)
Extensive global travel and stays abroad
Politics, journalism, empirical research, advisory, CSR/ESG
Music
Painting

Personal:
Half Viennese, half northern German. International family spread across Austria, Czechia, Germany, UK, USA, Israel.

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