WEBSTER - Key Persons
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- Advocacy, NGOs and Civil Society
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Vice President and Managing Director for HPE CERTA ( Central Europe, Russia, Turkey, and Africa )
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Deputy Director General Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA )
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- Management and Executive
- Member of the WVPU Advisory Board since 2011
Martin Winkler held several management and executive positions in leading international corporations. After studying at the University for Mining and Engineering in Leoben, Austria, he started his career working for IBM, where over a period of 15 years he filled various sales and management positions. Following that he spent two years with Xerox where he built up Xerox Global Services successfully in Austria and Switzerland.
In Sept. 2007 he joined Oracle Austria to lead and transform the company into a leading technology provider for the Austrian market. He held overall responsibility for Oracle's Austrian business until June 2022.
On top of his business priorities he has served as board member and president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Austria and as a board member of Internet Offensive Österreich for several years.
Winkler is married and has two children. He is a dedicated tennis player, golfer, mountain biker and loves to go out in the mountains.
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- Finance and Human Resources Management
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Campus Director
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- Management and Entrepreneurship
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- Management and Entrepreneurship
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- Methods of Political Inquiry Advanced Research Methods
- Methods of Political Inquiry and Advanced Research Methods
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Campus Director
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Senior Partner, GNBZ Graff Nestl Baurecht Rechtsanwälte
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- Member of the Emeritus
- CEO, Dr. Puttner Communications
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- Member of the Emeritus
- CEO, Styria Media Group AG
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- Human Resource Management
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- Politics of Development Refugee and Migration Movements
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- Member of the Emeritus
- General Manager CEE, Amgen GmbH
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- Social Psychology and Occupational Health
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- Director General for Global Campuses, Webster University
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- Chairman of the Board of Directors at RPR Privatstiftung Vienna ( Chair of the University Council )
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- CEO of Schoen Aerospace Trading & Consulting GmbH
- Chief Executive Officer, Schoen Aerospace Trading & Consulting ( Committee Chairman ) Chairman of the WVPU Advisory Board since 2017
- Member of the Austrian Defense
Since 1992, Walter Schön has been the CEO of Schoen Aerospace Trading & Consulting GmbH, a company that has been in operation since 1951. His main operating areas are security and defense and industrial cooperation. As CEO, he has consulted for a number of companies, including but not limited to Leonardo and Iveco of Italy, Ruag and Rheinmetall Air Defence of Switzerland, and Frequentis of Austria.
In addition to his leadership on the WVPU Advisory Board, Schön is a member of the Austrian Defense and Security Industry (ASW). He is also the vice president of the Austrian-Italian Association and is the honorary consul of St. Vincent & the Grenadines in Austria.
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- Professor Emeritus from Webster University
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- Understanding Military Power
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- Member of the Emeritus
- General Secretary, OPEC ( Deceased July 2022 )
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Director Global Systems Mgmt. Center, Coca - Cola Company
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- Managing Director
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Managing Partner of Lehner Executive Partners
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Chief Executive Officer, ADOMO Holding
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Managing Director, Microsoft Austria
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- Managing Director, Trade Republic, Berlin / Member of the WVPU Advisory Board since 2011
Gernot Mittendorfer graduated from Webster Vienna Private University with an MBA in 1996 with an Emphasis in Finance, receiving the esteemed Schön Nobel Award for Graduate Academic Excellence.
He began his career in the banking industry with Sparkasse Mühlviertel West Bank AG Rohrbach as a member of the managing board. His areas of responsibility included loans, accounting, controlling of activities related to the local branch, banking and leasing in the Czech Republic. From Nov. 1999 to June 2000, he served as a member of the managing board to Erste Bank Sparkassen (CR), a.s., Prague, overseeing retail banking. From July 2000 to July 2004, he was a managing board member with responsibilities in commerce at Česká spořitelna, a.s., Prague. During this time he also served as chairman of the Supervisory Board for Factoring ČS, a.s., Leasing ČS, a.s.
In Aug. 2004, he became the president and chief executive officer of Salzburger Sparkasse Bank AG, Salzburg until May 2007, when he moved into the same position at Česka spořitelna, a.s., Prague. From 2011 to 2013, Gernot was a managing board member at Erste Group Bank AG, Wien, overseeing group real estate and leasing, group investment banking, large corporate banking, GCIB corporate support and operations, and local corporate banking. In 2012 he also became the CFO of the bank and served in this role until June 2019 when he was appointed as advisor to the CFO at Erste Group Bank AG. He left the bank at the end of 2020. In December 2021 Gernot was appointed managing director of Trade Republic in Berlin, a leading German Fintech operating in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy offering brokerage and saving plans with more than 9.000 stocks, ETFs, Crypto and 300.000 derivatives.
Besides serving on the WVPU Board, he is also member of the Advisory Board of The Prague University of Economics and Business (VŠE).
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Chief Executive Officer, NOVOMATIC Group
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- Clinical and Health Psychology
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- Member of the Managing Board, Vienna Insurance Group
For more than two decades, Mag. Markus Brenner has been a successful entrepreneur in the executive search industry. He began his career in management consulting in 1989 and shortly after became managing director (Austria and CEE) of an executive search and recruitment company, CATRO Personalsuche and Auswahl. He founded Brenner & Company in 2007 and has since then provided customized solutions for his clients' needs - strongly focusing on integrity, transparency and personal commitment. In 2023, he was appointed regional director, EMEA of Agilium Worldwide Executive Search Group.
Apart from his business accomplishments, Brenner is a passionate sportsman. He is a golf enthusiast and was a tennis and hockey professional. His studies focus initially in electrical engineering and later in business administration at WU Vienna. He is married and has four children.
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- Country Executive, Citibank Europe Plc, Austria Branch
Mag. Michael Edelsbrunner graduated from Karl-Franzens-University of Graz in 1992, with a master's in Economics and a specialization in banking and industrial economics. He began his career in the banking industry soon after with Sanpaolo Bank (Vienna, Austria) Aktiengesellschaft, working as a relationship manager in corporate banking until 1997.
In 1998, Edelsbrunner joined Citibank International Limited Austria Branch, where he has made a career lasting 14 years. He started as a relationship manager in corporate banking, and was promoted to vice president in 2001. In Jan. 2005, he served as director/holder of Commercial Procuration, a position which was later incorporated as country director seven months later. In Aug. 2006, he served as the senior credit officer until Oct. 2007, when he became the Citi Country Officer, a position he has held since. While German is his mother tongue, Edelsbrunner is also fluent in English and French.
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- Head of Finance and Administration
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- Member of the Emeritus
- CFO, at & S Austria AG
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- CEO of Siemens AG Austria / Member of the WVPU Advisory Board since 2023
Since 2021, Patricia Neumann has led IBM Software Sales for Data, AI and Automation in IBM's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Prior to this role, she was the managing director of IBM Austria from 2017 to 2021. After an international corporate career spanning more than 10 years that took her to London, Milan and Germany, among other places, Neumann held several executive positions at IBM. Effective May 2023, she was appointed the CEO of Siemens AG Austria.
Neumann and her family are based in Vienna. She graduated from the Vienna Business and Economics University in 1995.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- General Manager Austria & Switzerland, Colgate - Palmolive
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- Clinical and Health Psychology
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Chief Executive Officer, Borealis AG
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- Advising and Enrollment Officer
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- Marketing and Public Relations
- Marketing Public Relations
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- Front Desk and Events Officer
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- Head of Marketing and Communications
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- Member of the Admissions Officers Team
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- Academic Services Officer
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- Member of the Admissions Officers Team
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- Mathematics and Statistics
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- Advising and Enrollment Officer
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- Head of Admissions and Advising
- Recruitment: Event and Fair Planning, Agent Performance Review and Monitoring, Agent Contract Revision and Termination, Commission Coordination With Finance Office
Recruitment: event and fair planning, agent performance review and monitoring, agent contract revision and termination, commission coordination with Finance Office
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- Member of the Admissions Officers Team
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- Member of the Emeritus
- General Manager, Hilton Austria
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- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President Middle East and Growth Projects, Borealis / Member of the WVPU Advisory Board since 2018
Philippe Roodhooft is currently the executive vice president of Middle East and Growth Projects at Borealis, an industry leader in base chemicals, fertilizers and polyolefins. He first joined Neste Chemicals in 1990 as a project engineer in Beringen, Belgium. After Neste Chemicals merged with Statoil, he became responsible for plant management in Borealis Kallo and later in Beringen. He moved to Vienna, Austria in 2007 and has since then served as general manager for the Central European production sites, senior vice president of Operations for the Borealis group of companies and senior vice president of Supply Chain and Product Management for Polyolefins. In 2013, Roodhooft moved to Borouge ADP in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as chief operating officer.
Roodhooft holds a master's degree in Applied Science, graduating Cum Laude from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium with a specialization in Production Management and Electro Mechanical Engineering. He is married and has two children.
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- CEO
- Member of the Emeritus
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- Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Erste Bank AG
- Member of the Tax Experts Board
Prof. Friedrich Rödler is the chairman of the Supervisory Board of Erste Bank AG and former country managing partner of PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers Austria. He started his professional career in 1976 with Arthur Andersen in Vienna where he was in charge of building up the tax practice. In 1990 he joined Price Waterhouse and became the firm's lead tax partner in Austria. From 2001 until 2013 he was the country managing partner of PwC in Austria.
Rödler is licensed as a "Steuerberater" to practice tax in Austria since 1979. In 1982 he passed the exam as "Wirtschaftsprüfer" and obtained the licence to practice as auditor according to Austrian law. Since 2004 Friedrich has been a member of the supervisory board of Erste Group Bank AG, and since 2012 the chairman of the bank's supervisory board.
Rödler is a member of the Tax Experts Board ("Fachsenat für Steuerrecht") of the Austrian Chamber of Accountants ("Kammer der Wirtschaftstreuhänder"). He is also actively involved in various international professional organizations as:
a member of the Tax Experts Board ("Fachsenat für Steuerrecht") of the Austrian Chamber of Accountants ("Kammer der Steuerberater und Wirschaftsprüfer")
a member (and former chairman) of the Tax Policy Group of Accountancy Europe
a member (and past president) of the Tax Committee of CFE (Confédération Fiscale Européenne)
vice president of IFA (International Fiscal Association) in Austria
treasurer and a vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Austria
Rödler studied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technische Universität Wien where he graduated in 1975 as Diplom-Ingenieur. In 1976 he obtained a degree as Magister in business administration from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and in the same year he completed a post-graduate course in international studies at the Universität Wien.
Upon recommendation from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in 2011 the Austrian Federal President awarded Friedrich the professional title of Professor. Rödler is married to Dr. Maria Bergamini and has two children. Besides his native German, he speaks English, French, Hungarian and Italian.
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- Senior Director of Philanthropy, Beyond Housing and
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- Ing.
- President of the Austrian Internet Task Force
Kemler is the president of the Austrian Internet Task Force, member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Austrian Industries in Vienna, vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Austria and a committee member of the Advisory Board of Webster University, Vienna, as well as of the Association of the Austrian Electrical and Electronics Industries (FEEI). Furthermore he is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Société Horlogère Reconvilier AG, Switzerland.
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- Member of the Emeritus
- Board Member, IBM Austria