Dr. Carsten Rudolph

CEO at BayStartUP

With BayStartUP, Dr. Carsten Rudolph heads the central institution for business start-ups and financing in Bavaria. During his career, he gained extensive experience in industry, management consulting and the national and international start-up scene: Until 2009, he was project manager of the high-tech start-up initiative "unternimm was." of Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, which promotes and internationally supports young founders from the high-tech industry. Before that he was managing director of the network nordbayern, which hosted the business plan competition for Northern Bavaria and coordinated the network of entrepreneurs and investors. Since 2009, Dr. Carsten Rudolph has also been Managing Director of evobis GmbH, which merged with the network nordbayern to form BayStartUP GmbH in 2014. As CEO, Dr. Carsten Rudolph also successfully set up an IT start-up. His first professional stations were sales manager at Siemens AG and senior consultant at McKinsey & Co. Dr. Carsten Rudolph studied and earned his doctorate in electronics at the Technical University of Berlin.

Dr. Benedikt Groh

Associate at Taylor Wessing

Benedikt is a lawyer at Taylor Wessing’s Employment, Pensions & Mobility practice group in the Munich office. He advises in Christian’s team national and international HR departments on all areas of individual and collective employment law as well as immigration law matters and has a strong focus os US clients as well. During his clerkship at the German Consulate General in New York (Economic Affairs) he had the chance to gain insights in the New York start-up scene and the German Accelerator.

Anke Corbin

Founder and CEO at Globig Strategic Advisor

Frederik Roever

Founder and Managing Partner at R&P Global

Dr. Christian Maron

Specialist Lawyer, Labor Law

Christian is specialist Lawyer for Employment Law and a Salary Partner at Taylor Wessing’s Employment, Pensions & Mobility practice group in the Munich office. The focus of his practice is guiding US clients through German employment law pitfalls. He has gained broad experience on advising US-based clients starting and doing business in Germany. Christian is also an experienced speaker at employment law seminars and regularly publishes on current issues of employment law. He teaches as a honorary lecturer at the Munich Business School (MBS) and is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA).

Hauke Holtkamp

Managing Director at Ecomply

Dr. Hauke Holtkamp is the founder and CEO of ECOMPLY.io. ECOMPLY.io simplifies data protection management for SMEs. Before founding ECOMPLY, Hauke worked in the telecommunications industry and several startups.

Jason Hirshman

Co-Founder of Uncountable Inc

Jason is a co-founder of Uncountable, where he leads the engineering team and works to build software that will accelerate product development for materials and chemicals companies.  Jason is an experienced software engineer and specializes in machine learning after having received degrees in math and computer science from Stanford University.  Jason has worked with a variety of startups and led the mentorship program for Stanford's StartX accelerator.

Patricia Spanier

Managing Director, Germany and European Center of Excellence at Rudolph Research Analytical

Patricia recently moved to Munich to establish the first office in Europe for Rudolph Research Analytical, a New Jersey-based company. She currently serves as their Managing Director, Germany and European Center of Excellence. She is an internet veteran having experienced what has now become the global reference for online retail, Amazon.com, when it was just an online bookstore. As a multilingual Business Executive in emerging technologies, she has extensive experience in developing and managing strategic partnerships spreading across many industries. She understands how embracing change is a huge catalyst in moving forward and staying ahead of the curve. Managing large and complex launch projects like Amazon France, Google Checkout in the UK or Google Fiber in Kansas City, is part of her DNA.  In addition to her entrepreneurial spirit and appetite for pioneering business models, Patricia advises a Palo Alto start-up in the AI space.

Siegfried Haider

Siegfried Haider - The brand positioner The easy way that people find and buy from you!

Siegfried Haider is one of the most successful and best known brand and marketing experts in Europe. He talks his walk and his workshops and keynotes are full of practical Wows in order to motivate people to act. The founder and honorary president of German Speakers Association has coached hundreds of companies to become well know brands. Many of his clients are famous experts and personal brands in their field of competence. His "Sold out!"-concepts are easy to use and deliver amazing results: Attractivity, visibility and magnetism on customers. More longstanding clients. Higher prices. More and better recommendations.

Andreas Unseld

Partner at Unternehmertum Venture Capital

Andreas has dedicated his career to technology entrepreneurship. He is a computer scientist by education and a technology enthusiast. His fields of interests are artificial intelligence and knowledge-based systems. He likes to work with technical teams on their product strategies. He has built up the technology scouting and startup coaching operations at UnternehmerTUM and gained startup experience with own ventures.

Oliver Kempkens

Senior Partner at Talent Tree

Oliver is Senior Partner & Executive Consultant at one of Munich’s largest and fastest growing tech recruiting company. He places C-Level executives, non-operative executives and advises on cultural transformation. Oliver lived and worked as an executive in California (Palo Alto) and - due to an engagement with Stanford University – has a very profound understanding of the US startup scene and mentality, in addition to the German one.