HYDROGENRISE.COM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Management Team
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Advisory Board
- Member of the Board
In 1979, Eberhard Färber founded the PCS Computersysteme GmbH in Munich together with his brother Prof. Georg Färber (Technical University Munich).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Supervisory Board
Since 1992, Guenther Weber has played a leading role in research and innovation starting as one of the founding directors of Mannesmann Pilotentwicklung which in 2001 became the German Centre of Vodafone Group R&D.
He initiated the Telematics and Tolling activities of Mannesmann and later of the Vodafone Group by creating technology driven paradigm shifts: the creation and development of a GPS/ GSM based road tolling system, Mobile Network based Floating Car Data, eCall and online traffic management.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Supervisory Board
- Head of Corporate Communication
For over 20 years, Jens-Rainer Jänig has consulted big and medium-sized companies with his communication, brand, marketing and organizational development expertise. He supports top management clients as well as corporate teams within their strategic and transformational challenges.
In 1997, he founded mc-quadrat OHG as a communication consultancy and creative content partner for companies of all size. Jens-Rainer Jänig is still managing partner and head of consulting.
2000 until 2003, he was interim managing partner of KnowledgeTools GmbH. 2002 to 2004, he managed KnowledgeTools International GmbH as interim managing partner.
In 2008, he joined the foundation board of the "Berlinische Galerie" - Museum of modern art, photography and architecture.
In 2009, he was a founding partner of "Die Denkbank", a boutique-consultancy of honorable senior experts specialized on organizational development and innovation. He left in June 2014 to integrate this field of expertise into mc-quadrat, to strengthen the systemic approach "Communication constitutes organization"
In August 2018, he joined Hydrogen Rise AG as a member of the advisory board.
Besides his executive positions, Jens-Rainer Jänig holds various honorary memberships including:
Board member Initiative D21 e.V.
Board member Charta digitale Vernetzung e.V.
Chairman of the board for friends association of Berlinische Galerie
Co-initiator of the first german umbrella organization of the culture development associations e.V.
In 2015, he initiated a broad societal dialogue about corporate digital responsibility (CDR) as a challenge for the digital transformation of societies. He will publish the first international online-magazine focused in Corporate Digital Responsibility in 2019.
As an entrepreneur, Jens-Rainer Jänig beliefs in responsible corporate citizenship. Therefore he supports various social engagements and enables his employees to work intensively for a social project during their worktime.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Member of the Board
Job Titles:
- CFO
- Member of the Management Team
Olav has over 25 years of experience in managing technology companies in Europe, USA and South America.
Prior to co-founding Hydrogen Rise, Olav co-founded a company as part of the Tiaxa Group in Chile and Germany that evolved into one of the world´s leading global innovative financial services provider for telecommunication companies.
Before Tiaxa, Olav spent 10 years in Silicon Valley as CFO of PortalPlayer Inc. where he was leading the company´s IPO and Transmeta Corp. PortalPlayer is known as the exclusive provider of key chip and firmware technology to the first generations of Apple iPods while Transmeta developed low power computing chips enabling the design of the first thin and long-battery life notebooks for most major computer manufacturers.
Olav holds lectures in entrepreneurship and is a mentor to many startup companies in various international programs, among others in the EU Copernicus Accelerator Program.