Prof. Dr. Markus Haider, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, is Head of the Institute of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics at Vienna University of Technology. He joined TU Wien as Professor in 2006 after a 14 year industrial career in the electric power industry. After studying mechanical engineering at Vienna University of Technology, he joined CNIM group, a leading provider of turnkey industrial solutions. He was development and proposal engineer (ACFB and PCFB in cooperation with Foster Wheeler) and Technical Head of division Babcock Enterprise and Babcock Wanson (Paris). After 10 years in CNIM group, Markus joined GE Energy in Belfort France for 3 years as Head of Proposal Management of gas turbine power plants.
Dr. Gottfried Himmler is an experienced entrepreneur and has been involved in a number of biotech start-up companies such as f-star, igeneon, CODON and Genovision as founder and in various executive management positions. He has a strong background in engineering and holds a PhD degree from the University of Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria. Prior to his industrial activities, Gottfried was assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Microbiology in Vienna/Austria.
Dr. Eugen Stermetz is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of SVOX AG, Zurich, a leading provider of embedded speech solutions to the automotive and mobile industries. He has extensive experience in building and financing high-tech start-ups. Before joining SVOX, Eugen served as CFO of the Austrian biotech company f-star and prior to that as CFO of igeneon. He started his career by working as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group’s corporate finance practice in Munich and Vienna. Eugen holds a lic. oec. degree from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and a doctorate from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
DI Rudolf Schwarzinger studied Mechanical Engineering | Economics at the Vienna University of Technology. After seven years in various management positions at UNILEVER Austria, he worked as a management consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, mainly focusing on operations strategy. From
2007 to 2010 he served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Amann Girrbach AG a worldwide operating technology company in the dental business. Since the successful exit to an US based technology fund, he works as an entrepreneur and investor in technology start-up-projects.