After his economical studies Oliver started his professional career within KPMG. After 12 years of performing audits, valuations and due diligences he left KPMG to start his own business in 2006. Since then he founded 4 startups (mainly in the consulting and hr sector). Oliver is a CFA charterholder, business angel and startup coach.

Wolfgang Gröting is a enthusiastic innovator with a rich experience in the industry for more than 20 years.

Since Oct 2017, Mr. Gröting is heading this Fraunhofer inHaus center, in Duisburg, which is an application center for

Smart home

Hospital of the future

Elderly home for the future and smart city of the future

Currently, he has got, 10 to 20 startups in his in-Haus Zentrum.

Wolfgang Gröting hopes that the inHaus Centre will become a place for an open exchange of ideas and promote practical innovations. Since October 1, 2017, he has headed the Fraunhofer inHaus Center in Duisburg and is particularly pleased about the cooperation with motivated and creative scientists. Mr. Gröting is convinced that their enormous know-how holds enormous potential for innovation.

With the 49-year-old, an experienced engineer and innovation manager has taken over the helm at the inHaus center. Over the past 20 years, Gröting has held management positions, first at Siemens and later at Philips. Most recently, he headed global innovation management at the Dutch technology group Philips. Here he successfully initialized new business ideas and was responsible for significantly higher project efficiency.

Mr. Gröting now wants to contribute this experience and knowledge in the fields of telecommunications, lighting and the generation of new business models to his work at the inHaus center. In addition, as an engineer he has a good sense for innovation and appreciates the achievements of past pioneering achievements: "I am impressed by the innovative power of people and their inventive spirit. Let's take, for example, the many assistance systems that make life much easier in old age within one's own four walls and sometimes even make it possible in the first place. I am therefore all the more pleased to now be part of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, which, with its approximately 24 thousand employees, has already driven forward many great innovations."

Mr. Gröting sees future focal points of his work in the areas of health, healthy ageing and care, among others. Under his leadership, topics related to Smart home will also play a central role in the inHaus center. He will contribute many fresh ideas from industry to the research work at the Fraunhofer Institute. In addition, his excellent networking skills will enable him to establish direct contact with partners from industry.

Mr. Gröting sees himself as a "bridge builder" when working with colleagues and customers. He says he was very much influenced by the length of time he spent in a Dutch company. He is particularly impressed by the pragmatic way the Dutch people work: "Direct communication across departmental boundaries is a matter of course there, and I practice that as well.

The father of a family has his roots in the down-to-earth Münsterland region, but has lived in Oberhausen for many years and describes himself as a "happy part" of the Ruhr region. Good prerequisites for understanding partners and colleagues alike.

She defines herself as a curious case of frugal innovation, shaped by global experiences. She is the perfect blend of German precision, the American art of upscaling and the extraordinary Indian ability to work with frugal resources.

She jumped off the corporate bandwagon nearly 13 years ago to build business in a multitude of seemingly unconnected industries such as aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, education with IT and software as the core enabler.

She is a hands-on business practitioner who values big ideas, out of the box thinking and teamwork that turns ideas into action supports the startups through an ecosystem- innovation approach with a range of initiatives supported by incubators and accelerators. She has invested in over 40 startups as an angel investor and with Select Index.

She has proven that success in global leadership requires a high level of entrepreneurial abilities encompassing management of P&L, lines of business and working with geographically dispersed teams. She has a Bachelors in Engineering and P.G. Dipl. in Advanced Computing from CDAC and an Alumni of MIT Sloan.   

Ich bin Projekt-Manager bei der GFW Duisburg und rolle für Gründerinnen und Gründer den roten Teppich aus. Als erster Sparringspartner stehe für ich gerne für Euer Gründungsvorhaben bereit und gehe mit Euch die Selbstständigkeit durch, von der Ideenskizze über den Businessplan bis hin zu den formellen Abläufen und der Anmietung des ersten Büros. Als Mitglied und Coach des Gründungsnetzwerkes Duisburg-Niederrhein erhaltet ihr bei mir alle Informationen rund um das Gründerstipendium NRW, ein Förderprogramm, welches ich bei innovativen Ideen wärmstens empfehlen kann. Solltet ihr darüber hinaus noch mit dem Gedanken spielen, international tätig sein zu wollen, kann ich Euch mit Tipps und Kontakten weiterhelfen. Ansonsten bin ich immer wieder neugierig und gespannt auf neue Geschäftsideen. Ich kann nicht alles, kenne aber meist diejenigen, die es können.

I'm project manager at GFW Duisburg and roll out the red carpet for founders. As the first sparring partner, I would be glad to be ready for your start-up project and go through with you the independence, from the sketch of ideas on the business plan to the formal processes and the lease of the first office. As a member and coach of the start-up network Duisburg-Niederrhein, you will receive all information about the Gründerstipendium NRW, a funding program that I can warmly recommend for innovative ideas. If you also want to play with the idea to be internationally active, I can help you with tips and contacts. Otherwise, I am always curious and eager for new business ideas. I can not do everything but usually know those who can.

Andree hat an der Universität Duisburg-Essen Elektrotechnik studiert und war in dieser Zeit mit einem Computervertrieb selbstständig. Nach einer mehrjährigen Tätigkeit bei der Gesellschaft für Technologietransfer und Technologieberatung als IT-Leiter arbeitet er seit 2005 für die Wirtschaftsförderung Duisburg als Experte für Innovation und Gründung. Er betreut das Technologiezentrum Duisburg und unterstützt jedes Jahr zahlreiche technologieorientierte StartUps. Gemeinsam mit der Business Angel Agentur Ruhr (BAAR) organisiert er Pitches und bringt Gründer und Kapitalgeber zusammen.

Andree studied electrical engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen and was self-employed with a computer sales company during this time. After several years working for the Technology Transfer and Technology Consulting Company as IT Director, he has been working for Duisburg Economic Development since 2005 as an expert in innovation and start-up. He manages the Technology Center Duisburg and supports numerous technology-oriented startups each year. Together with the Business Angel Agency Ruhr (BAAR) he organizes pitches and brings together founders and investors.