Dr. Claude Bloch

Tendris SARL
64 Boulevard Dostoievski
67200 Strasbourg, France

Tel: +33 388 26 24 82
Fax: +33 388 26 24 82

E-Mail: claudebloch@tendris.fr

1969-1974

Studies of economics at the University of Strasbourg

1975-1979

Executive manager in sales and marketing at Procter & Gamble

1979-1991

Sales development manager, area sales manager and national key account manager at Masterfoods (Mars)

1991-1993

National sales director at Pernod Ricard

1994-2004

Owner of a restaurant in Strasbourg

Seit 2004

Developer of a innovative concept of a natural maturation process of meat

Seit 2005

Chairman of the French-Israeli chamber of commerce, delegation east

Seit 2008

Business Coach in Strasbourg at Action Coach – the worldwide leading company for business coaching

Prof. Dominique Demougin

Full professor for Law and Economics at the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel

Postfach P.O. Box 2346
65013 Wiesbaden

Tel: +49 611 36 01 86 00
Fax: +49 611 36 01 86 02

E-Mail: dominique.demougin@ebs.edu

1988

Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario

1988-1997

Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and at the Université du Québec à Montreal

1997-2001

Full professor for Finance the University of Magdeburg

2001-2007

Walther-Rathenau-Chair of Organisation Theory at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Seit 2007

Full professor for Law and Economics and Head of Department for Law, Governance and Economics at the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel

2005-2008

Subproject head of special field of study of the DFG for economic risk

Seit 2008

Supervision of DFG supported research project concerning analysis of impetus of institutional change of contract problems, consultatory function at IHK southern Oberrhein for manufacturing companies concerning questions of resource efficiency

Seit 2000

Co-editor of Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Seit 2003

Chairman of producto AG

Seit 2008

Member of supervisory board of Wald KG

His main field of studies are Law and Economics, Governance Structures, Institutional Economics and Microeconomics

Dr. Heiko Frank

Tefen AG
Villa II im martini-Park
Provinostrasse 52
86153 Augsburg

Tel: +49 821 50 241 0
Fax: +49 821 50 241 21

E-Mail: heiko.frank@tefen.com

1987-1996

Studies (Dipl.-Kfm. univ.) and doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in economics at the university of Augsburg – doctoral thesis with subject „electronic media“

Partner and managing director of an international consulting company

Seit 1989

Entrepreneurial and consulting activities (over 300 national and international projects with focus on consumer goods branch

Accredited consultant of the World Bank, EU and UN

Further mandates: CPU Softwarehouse AG (Supervisory Board Chairman)

Augsburg AG (Member of Supervisory Board)

Göppel Bus GmbH (Member of Advisory Board)

Commercial judge at county court Augsburg

Member of IHK Schwaben in the industry and trade board

Economic senate and managing director of BWA in Berlin

Dr. Marc Mangold

Hubert Burda Media

Arabellastr. 23
81925 München

Tel: +49 89 92 50 0
Fax: +49 89 92 50 4140

E-Mail: marc.mangold@burda.com

2001

Diplom-Kaufmann (University) at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

2004

Master of Business Research (MBR) at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

2005

Doctorate Dr. oec. publ. at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

2003-2005

Director at the strategy consulting company The EX Group (New York), Head of Office in Munich with focus on Automotive, Telecommunications and Media

Seit 2005

Head of Corporate Development, HBM R&D, and Head of Hubert Burda Media Research at Hubert Burda Media (HBM), Munich

Prof. Dr. Helmut Merkel

Hong Kong / Mannheim

E-Mail: helmut.merkel@prologue-asia-pacific.com

Studies and doctorate at the university of Mannheim

Board member of Arcandor AG, Essen; main tasks: Group Buying, IT, Logistics, Compliant Supply Chain Management

President of BAG (German Federation of medium to large retail industry)

President of International Group of Department Stores (IGDS)

Prof. Mario Schmidt

Tiefenbronner Str. 65
75175 Pforzheim

Tel: +49 7231 28 6406
Fax: +49 7231 28 7406

E-Mail: mario.schmidt@hs-pforzheim.de
WWW: http://umwelt.hs-pforzheim.de

1978-1985

Studies of physics at the University of Freiburg and University of Heidelberg

1985-1989

Academic assistant at the Institute for Energy- and Environment Research, Heidelberg

1989-1990

Head of division at the senator of environment, Hamburg

1991-1999

Co-founder and executive associate at ifeu Heidelberg GmbH

Seit 1999

Professor in Economics at the University of Pforzheim

Seit 2002

Academic director at the Institute of applied sciences IAF and member of senate

Seit 2002

Consultatory function at IHK southern Oberrhein for manufacturing companies concerning questions of efficiency in resource management

Seit 2004

Spokesman of all IAF executives in Baden-Wuerttemberg

His main field of studies are environment and resource management as well as operations research

Several German and English professional publications in the mentioned fields of studies as well as several textbooks

Consulting and research projects with companies such as Daimler, VW, Otto, Ciba, Deutsche Post i.a.

Reinhard Weber

Managing Director der Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH

Luxemburger Allee 4
45481 Mülheim an der Ruhr

Tel: +49 208 70 06 22 48
Fax: +41 44 925 23 20

E-Mail: reinhard.weber@aon.ch

1977

Degreed economic engineer at the university of Karlsruhe

1978

Development and directorship for Risk Management and Risk Financing of Jauch & Hübener GmbH, Muelheim/Ruhr

1991

Executive director of Aon AG, Switzerland, Insurance Broker, Zurich

2001

Strategic Account Manager og Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH, Muelheim/Ruhr, responsible for selected international companies with headquarter in Germany

2008

Managing Director of Aon Jauch & Hübener GmbH, Muelheim/Ruhr