Guest lectures in summer semester 2011
| Date | Guest Lecturer & Topic of the Presentation | Place/Time |
|---|---|---|
| 14.Juli | Max Wittrock | |
| 18.Juli | Benjamin Günther | |
| 21.Juli | Eric Achtmann | |
| 25.Juli | Florian Meyer |
Details about the lecturers
Mymuesli has been available in Germany since April 30, 2007. The company was founded by Hubertus Bessau (27), Philipp Kraiss (27) and Max Wittrock (25). mymuesli mixes and sells custom-mixed cereals online. The company has been granted several awards and was voted Germany's startup of the year in 2007.
More information about mymuesli can be found here.
Benjamin Günther received his Business Administration degree majoring in marketing at the LMU in Munich. He also studied at UC Berkeley and in the fashion capital, Paris. He is CEO of STYLIGHT and responsible for marketing and business development.
About STYLIGHT:
The STYLIGHT GmbH, based in Munich, was founded in November 2008 by Anselm Bauer, Benjamin Günther, Max-Josef Meier und Sebastian Schuon. The company is supported by leading investors such as Holtzbrinck Ventures, Urs Keller and Stefan Gessulat. STYLIGHT uses specially developed algorithms from the image recognition to make fashion searchable in many shops. For their technology and business idea, the founder of STYLIGHT were honored with numerous awards, such as the European Tech Tour as one of the 25 "most promising startups Web".
More information about STYLIGHT can be found here.
Eric Achtmann is Managing Director at Global Capital Advisors GmbH and a Senior Lecturer at both the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and the University of Munich. Previously he was a Managing Partner at PolyTechnos Venture-Partners, a €200M pan-European venture fund based in Germany. He joined PolyTechnos in 1998 from McKinsey & Co., where he served as a product development/defense-aerospace industry expert and worked heavily in M&A. He gained start-up experience as founder and President/CEO of Petrotech International operating in the Middle East and Asia. He has studied and worked in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and has served on the boards of a number of early-stage companies. Mr. Achtmann holds engineering degrees from MIT (M.S. Aero & Astro Eng.); the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium (Dipl. Post-Univ.); Technical University of Munich (H. Dipl.); and University of New Hampshire (B.S. Mech. Eng.). He received an MBA in finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Eric is a founding member of the MIT Entrepreneurship Society.
- Studied economics at the University of Munich, completed in 2007
- Professional career as a research associate at the University of Passau and as a consultant on transfer pricing at KPMG
- Since January 2010, founder and managing partner of AZUBIYO GmbH
About AZUBIYO:
AZUBIYO GmbH was founded in January 2010 as a spin-off of LMU. The company gives the principle of online dating services on the market for training and study courses, creating dual an innovative online marketplace for their future careers.
More information about AZUBIYO can be found here.
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