BEAM - Key Persons
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- Lead SW Architect, Head of Data Analytics at BEUMER Group, BEUMER Group Denmark
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- Senior Content Marketing Manager
Bobbi joined Beam in November 2023 as Senior Content Marketing Manager.
Prior to joining, she worked as the Marketing Lead for two business units of the Swiss-based drone consulting agency M&K Global, providing marketing consulting services to clients and managing marketing for German and Swiss operations. Before entering the world of advanced aviation, she had worked primarily with early-stage startups in Berlin to develop and execute their marketing strategies.
She holds two MA's in Modern German Literature and English (Commonwealth) Literature from the Free University of Berlin, as well as two BA's in English Literature & Linguistics and German Literature from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and the University of Kassel.
Bobbi is currently helping the Beam startups develop and execute their marketing and communications strategies.
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- Senior People Operations Specialist
Codee joined Beam in October 2022 as a People Operations Specialist.
Before joining Beam, she worked as a business recruiter for a fintech startup in Berlin, as well as risk management analyst for a government agency in California, specializing in learning & development and employee benefits.
Codee holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, from California State University, Chico, and is passionate about fitness, health and nutrition.
She supports the Beam team by bringing fresh entrepreneurial talent onboard, shaping the organizational culture, and delivering great experiences for the team.
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- CEO & Owner, BEUMER Group
Dr. Beumer is the driving force behind Beam. He is CEO and owner of BEUMER Group, His family business is a German Mittelstand Company and a global champion in intralogistics.
Dr. Beumer studied mechanical engineering at Leibniz Universität Hannover, incl. a Ph.D. in materials handling, the bread-and-butter business of his family's firm. During his 18 year tenure as CEO of BEUMER Group, he managed to grow annual revenues from 100 to 900 M (2017).
BEUMER Group has offices in 27 countries and employs 4,000 people worldwide. Primary business areas include luggage transportation systems at the world's major airports; sorting and handling parcels in large distribution centers and warehouses; and fully-automated packaging solutions for food, cement and pharmaceutical products.
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- CEO, BEUMER Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
During my studies at University of Technologies in Berlin my enthusiasm and passion for supply chain management started. I'm glad that I could complete different internships around the world and get more insights into the challenging world of supply chain management.
I started my professional career at BVL (German Logistics Association), the leading logistics and supply chain professionals' network in Germany as a project manager. My projects brought me to places like Brazil, China, Dubai, Russia and the US, where I was privileged to manage state to the art supply chain concepts. Later I was appointed member of the managing board of BVL, where I enjoyed the further strategic development of the network to foster an exchange of supply chain professionals.
Alongside my professional career, I completed a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management with Prof. Frank Straube at TU Berlin from 2006-2013. During my Ph.D. studies I researched megatrends and their impact on logistics networks.
In summer 2013 I joined BEUMER Group, to support the global roll-out and implementation of our Strategy 2018. In January 2016 I returned to my passion and took over the global Supply Chain Management responsibility as divisional director. I am happy to support our company by building a global supply chain network to reduce lead times further, deliver higher quality and provide a competitive cost level.
As of November 2019, I am the president of the Airport Division at BEUMER Corporation in Dallas, Texas.
In addition to my working career at BEUMER, I'm honored to serve the jury of the "German Award for SCM". This award honors innovative and leading edge supply chain concepts from manufacturing as well as service companies. I'm also happy, having the opportunity to hold guest lectures at different German universities and get young people motivated to get interested in our fascinating world of supply chain management.
Gökçe joined Beam in April 2022 as a working student in design and continues her role as a Visual designer.
She completed her Master's degree in Media and Communication at Macromedia University in Berlin in May 2023, where she focused on marketing and branding. Before starting her Master's, Gökçe attended a Graphic/UI/UX design and branding program. She has a Bachelor's degree in architecture from Ozyegin University Istanbul (2020).
At Beam, Gökçe focuses on digital and print marketing designs and website design for the startups within the Beam ecosystem.
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- Head of Venture Development
Jesper joined Beam in July 2019. He serves as Head of Venture Development.
Prior to Beam, Jesper worked for 3 years helping startups and corporates with innovation programs and rapid prototyping. Jesper has more than 20 years of experience as a Co-Founder and CEO building and scaling startups on international markets. His last startup Aporta Digital (2011-2016), received an award at the World Cup Tech competition in Silicon Valley in 2015. In the same period, Jesper was granted 3 patents in EU and the US within the On-Board Passenger Infotainment for Public transportation. Jesper's field of expertise ranges from concept- and prototype development to sales- and operations management in multiple markets.
From 2002-2010 after Jesper studied Ms C. in Business Economics at the Copenhagen Business School (2001) Jesper was hired to Digitize the Danish Music Industry with the funding from the Danish Ministry of Culture. Jesper supplemented his innovation skills with an innovations program, - the EMP from INSEAD in France in 2014-2015.
Lidija joined Beam in May 2021 as a Product Designer.
Prior to joining Beam, Lidija spent over 3 years as a Design Lead at SixLeaf. Her expertise is in UX/UI and brand development.
Lidija also worked as a book designer and illustrator.Lidija holds a BA with honors in Graphic Design from the University of Montenegro and an MA in Art History from the University of Bologna.
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- Senior Researcher & Venture Analyst
Marc joined Beam in September of 2020. He is Beam's Senior Researcher and Venture Analyst.
Prior to joining Beam, Marc was the co-founder of a startup in the B2B social media marketing space and the founder of a content marketing service that helped deliver content and research projects for industry leaders, including SAP, Facebook, and PwC. In a previous life, Marc spent six years working as a senior analyst for IHS Markit where he helped lead the European Wind Energy division delivering industry standard-setting research and narratives.
Marc holds an MBA with a digital marketing focus from the IE Business School as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics in Political Science and an MA in Philosophy from the New School in New York.
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- Managing Director & CEO, BEUMER India
For the last 8 years (2010 till date), I am working in the leadership position of BEUMER Group's India subsidiaries. During the last 8 years, have been able to get BEUMER India diversify from single product and single Industry (Cement) to all the active business segments of BEUMER Group globally both in Bulk as well as Discrete material handling with market leadership position in Airports, Logistics and Cement Packing Plant business. Have been pioneer in introducing India's first high speed loop sortation systems in 2007-08 for Airport's Baggage Handling System with involvement in implementing all the loop sorters in Indian market since then and in 2016 was instrumental in first loop sorter in India for Organized Retail's Distribution Center.
Besides, I have been instrumental in launching successfully many new products, technologies and systems in Indian Cement Industry for improving efficiency in production automation, like automatic Truck Loading Machines; automatic bag placers for HDPE bags; long distance Curved Belt Conveyors for Lime Stone etc. Lastly in last few years, have been able to sustainably develope offshore engineering tasks for captive engineering works of BEUMER Group from India, delivering engineering tasks to US, Europe, Middle East and to South East Asia.
From 2008 to 2010, I was working in Siemens India on secondment from Siemens Singapore for setting up Siemens Airports & Logistics business in India. Developed complete Siemens India's Airport & Logistics business unit from scratch both organization as well as business and brought it to number one position in India. Conceptualized & implemented India 's first and only remote / City baggage Check in system with automated in-train container handling system.
From 2000 to 2008, I worked with Siemens Singapore at various positions for various businesses. Between 2004 and 2007, worked in Siemens Airports & Logistics Asia Pacific Centre of Competence in Singapore as Concept, Costing & Proposal engineer for the 1st year and then as regional sales manager, during this period developed business in fresh new territories. Between 2000 and 2004 worked with Automation and Drives group of Siemens Singapore as controls engineer and as automation consultant. Worked as a lead controls engineer for one of the Asia's first multi network hot-standby controls system for Semiconductor production plant, later part as automation consultant developed one of the world's first Gigabit (1GBPS) multi-layer (4) controls system architecture for one of the world's biggest water treatment and reclamation plant (Changi CWRP).
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- SVP Builder Platform and AI, Zalando
Since January 2020, I work at Zalando SE in Berlin. I lead a diverse range of departments and initiatives that have at their core research in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) spanning data science, machine learning (ML) and economics in order to make Zalando the starting point for fashion. In particular, this includes working on fashion size and fit, causality, forecasting, the development and deployment of easy-to-use AI tools as well as exploring new research ideas in the area of Fashion AI through our Zalando Research team. I am also responsible for both the internal science community as well as our interactions with academia. Our teams apply and advance the science in many established scientific fields including computer vision, natural language processing, data science and economics.
From 2013 to 2020, I worked at Amazon as Director of Machine Learning leading Core Machine Learning worldwide with teams in Cambridge, Barcelona, Tübingen, Berlin, New York and Seattle. Until August 2013, I worked in Seattle and then in Berlin, Germany. My work invloved cross-disciplinary applications of Forecasting, Content Linkage (including Machine Translation), Scalable Machine Learning Services, Vision-Assisted Technologies, Human-Aware AI, Robotics and Causality.
From October 2011 to November 2012, I worked at Facebook in Palo Alto & Menlo Park leading the Unified Ranking and Allocation team. This team is focused on building horizontal large-scale machine learning infrastructure for learning user-action-rate predictors that enabled unified value experiences across the products.
From 2009 to 2011, I was Director of Microsoft's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Lab UK demonstrating and enabling new social experiences through development of computational intelligence technologies on large online data collections. From 2006 - 2009, together with Thore Graepel, I was leading the Applied Games and the Online Services and Advertising (OSA) research group which engaged in research at the intersection of machine learning and computer games as well as research in search and online advertising combining insights from machine learning, information retrieval, game theory, artificial intelligence and social network analysis. I joined Microsoft Research in 2000 as a Postdoctoral researcher and Research Fellow of the Darwin College Cambridge.
Prior to joining Microsoft, I worked at the Technical University Berlin as a teaching assistant where I obtained both a diploma degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree in Statistics.
Prior to setting up Beam, Robert co-founded Coffee Circle in 2010. As Co-CEO, he was responsible for marketing and sales (B2C and B2B), HR and technology. During his tenure, Coffee Circle achieved high 7-digit annual revenues and was growing at 50% annually. Coffee Circle operates profitably and is considered the leading coffee and accessory e-commerce website in German-speaking countries.
From 2006 to 2009, after studying Business Administration at the University of Mannheim, Robert worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. As a member of the Marketing & Sales competence center, he gathered substantial experience with regard to project delivery, leadership and intercultural awareness working for clients across the EU and in Abu Dhabi.
For his work with Coffee Circle, Robert was named an AACSB Influential Leader.