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International business administration, risk management, marketing strategies, audits,contracts, coaching

He holds a master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bergische University of Wuppertal, and received a bachelor in economics from the Business Institute Weil am Rhein, Germany. His career is characterized by responsible management positions in different international oriented companies. From 1987 until 2010 he worked in key positions for Siemens reporting to the executive management. Focus had been leadership and management positions in Latin America, Africa, GUS, the global market and international projects. Today he is active as independent consultant in his own company GIC, Global Industry Consulting, founded in 2010.

Start-Up, business plan, financing, governmental funding, research relations, product management, project management

He studied at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen and completed his doctorate in 1981 in digital signal processing. He started his first own business MEDAV Digitale Signalverarbeitung GmbH with the age of 28 years. Additional start-ups followed. Today he contributes with more than 33 years of experience in business development and acting as sole stakeholder and managing director from start-up scenarios to successful exits in the measurement and security market.

Speech technology, pattern recognition, computer science

He is professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and member of the editorial board of Speech Communication and EURASIP JASMP. He is teaming with researchers in the international speech community and participated in the foundation of spin-off companies. His current subjects of interest are speaker characterization, prosody, analysis of pathologic speech, computer aided language learning and emotion analysis.

Speech technology, pattern recognition, computer science

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Korbinian Riedhammer is Professor of Software Architecture and Machine Learning at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm. He received his diploma and doctorate in computer science from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on speech recognition, machine learning, and sequence learning. He previously worked as a visiting scientist at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley and co-founded the speech technology startup Remeeting (later Mod9).

Measurement, direction Finding, electromagnetic wave propagation

He received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.E.E.), Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.E.E.) and the Dr.-Ing. habil. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology from Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany. Since 1992 he has been a professor of electrical engineering at TU Ilmenau, where he was the head of Elec-tronic Measurement Research Laboratory. He has been retired since 2018. He is fellow of the IEEE and has earned several awards, e.g. the Vodafone Innovation Award in 2014.