SOFORT - Key Persons
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- Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
- Managing Partner Union Square Ventures
Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures, one of the ten most successful venture capital funds in the world and a forerunner of a "world after capital". As author, speaker, and investor, he addresses how the state, economy and social systems will and must change in the future.
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- Managing Partner Purpose Evergreen Capital & Purpose Ventures
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- Partner / Managing Director WLP
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- Journalist at Handelsblatt
Anja Müller has been a journalist at Handelsblatt since 1997. She reports on family-owned businesses and she's the owners of own. She studied Economics with the Nobel Prize winner Prof. Selten.
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Armin Steuernagel is the pioneer of a new form of ownership for companies. As co-founder of the Purpose Foundation, Purpose Ventures, and Purpose Evergreen Capital, he has assisted over 30 companies in structuring and financing steward-ownership. He founded his first company at 16 and Mogli at 22, which is now represented in 40 countries worldwide.
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- Managing Director
- CEO Sonett
Beate Oberdorfer is managing director and steward-owner of Sonett. Together with Beate Oberdorfer, he transformed a small company into a flourishing model business. Today Sonett is one of the best performing sustainable detergent manufacturers in the organic sector. Gerhard Heid and Beate Oberdorfer transitioned Sonett to steward-ownership using an innovative foundation-ownership solution.
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- CEO Ecosia.Org
- Founder and CEO of the Search Engine Ecosia.Org
Christian Kroll is founder and CEO of the search engine Ecosia.org, Google's most sustainable competitor. Ecosia's profits are used to plant trees. With the help of the Purpose Foundation, Ecosia became a steward-owned company.
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- Senior Advisor, Purpose Evergreen Capital
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- Partner
- Partner Flick Gocke Schaumburg
Dr. Lambertus Fuhrmann ist Anwalt und Partner bei der Kanzlei Flick, Gocke Schaumburg. Er ist ausgewiesener Experte im Gesellschaftsrecht. Er hat Bücher zur deutschen GmbH publiziert und hat mit der Purpose Stiftung zusammen das Veto-Anteilmodell für sich selbst gehörende Unternehmen entwickelt.
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- Board Member Dr. Hauschka / WALA
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- Board Member Purpose Stiftung
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- Chairman of the Board BOSCH
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BOSCH
Franz Fehrenbach is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BOSCH and serves as a steward-owner with voting rights. He has led Bosch for 9 years as CEO. Today, he also serves a member of the Board of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the Supervisory Board of BASF SE, Linde AG and Stihl AG, the Advisory Board of Stihl Holding AG & Co. KG and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Demoskopie Allensbach.
In 2006, Fehrenbach was elected "Eco Manager of the Year" in the corporate sector by the environmental foundation WWF Germany and the business magazine Capital. In 2008, he received the car award "The Golden Honorary Steering Wheel", with which Bild am Sonntag honors outstanding personalities. In 2009, he received the B.A.U.M. Environmental Award from the Federal German Working Group for Environmentally Conscious Management. On behalf of Bosch, he also accepted the 2009 Prize for Understanding and Tolerance of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In February 2012, Fehrenbach was honored by the business magazine Capital as "Greentech Manager of the Year 2011." The prize is awarded to entrepreneurs and managers who are driving the growth of green technologies with above-average success and whose companies have an innovative and sustainable product portfolio.
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- Managing Director
- CEO Sonett
Gerhard Heid is managing director and steward-owner of Sonett. Together with Beate Oberdorfer, he transformed a small company into a flourishing model business. Today Sonett is one of the best performing sustainable detergent manufacturers in the organic sector. Gerhard Heid and Beate Oberdorfer transitioned Sonett to steward-ownership using an innovative foundation-ownership solution.
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- Board Member Triodos Bank / Saat - Foundation
Jospehine de Zwaan is a lawyer and seasoned executive and non executive board member in organisations in the public/private domain, more specific in Education, Culture and Health Care. She has been the Chairman of the foundation that owns Triodos Bank, the world's largest sustainable bank, since 2010. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Fairphone.
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- Board Member Organically Grown Company
Natalie Reitman-White is a pioneer in the organic industry in the USA. She managed to transition Organically Grown Company (OGC) one of the largest organic wholesalers in the USA to steward-ownership, thanks to a Perpetual Purpose Trust. She founded and served as the Executive Director of the Sustainable Food Trade Association and serves on numerous advisory boards throughout the organic food sector.
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Prof. Colin Mayer is a pioneer of the future of the 21st century company. A former Dean of the Business School at Oxford University (Said Business School) and co-founder of one of the world's largest economic advisory consultancies he has researched companies in practice and academically. In his popular books "Firm Commitment" and "Prosperity" he calls "purpose" back to the centre of the enterprise and profits as a means to an end, not an end in itself.
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- Founder
- Managing Director
- Founder Alnatura
Götz Rehn is the founder and managing director of one of the most popular food brands in Germany: Alnatura. At Alnatura, he helped build a company that has been at the forefront of innovation and sustainability. Using a two-entity foundation structure, he made Alnatura a steward-owned company.
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Prof. Steen Thomsen is arguably the world's only and therefore the world's leading researcher on foundation-owned (i.e. stewardship) companies. His academic studies challenge some mainstream views of business theory by demonstrating that foundation ownership is a viable and competitive form of business organization.
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