FACES & STORIES

Philipp Klein

Co-Founder von StudyAds - Personalmarketing Agentur für Schüler und Studenten.
Mit dem Produkt Schülerblock begeistert er deutschlandweit die Generation Z.

HR-Blogger auf HRtalk - Let the talk begin.
Auf meinem Blog teilt Philpp Klein sein Wissen über die Generation Z und berichtet über neue und außergewöhnliche Ansätze im HR Bereich. Denn nur wer teilt, hat mehr vom Leben. 

Tristan Niewöhner

Tristan Niewöhner is founder and managing director of persomatch GmbH. The business idea of persomatch: Place job ads on Google, on the first page at the very top! He is an expert in this, as well as in Google for Jobs, recruiting, startup consulting and SEA/SEO in general. In 2013, the graduate of business economy founded with some fellow students „freat“, an online shop for catering supplies. In 2014, he became a startup coach at "TecUP" (University of Paderborn) and shortly afterwards he started "Loom Technologies", a startup that develops logistics software. In 2016, he sold his Loom shares and became Entrepreneur in Residence at the Founders Foundation, Bertelsmann Stiftung. Here the idea for persomatch was born: a centralized, Google-based job search. persomatch has been in operation since 2017 and helps companies to finally find the employees they are looking for.

Samuel Ju und Dr. Clemens Reichel

Clemens combines HR expertise with the art of entrepreneurship: Through his experience at Roland Berger and as a self-employed headhunter, the idea was born to make recruiting easier, more transparent and above all more digital - even if it means torpedoing his own profession.

He shared these thoughts in 2009 in a Frankfurt café with Samuel, who founded his first digital start-up while still studying law and has since made several successful exits. After 10 years in the start-up scene, he can be called a serial entrepreneur and digital visionary.

Together they founded Mobilehead and developed an online platform for the placement of lawyers: Today Legalhead supports more than 12.000 candidates. The sister platforms focus on the areas of medicine, care, hotel business, interim management, real estate, taxes and finance.

Kerstin Rücker

Director HR & Organization Development, Eckes-Granini Group

Robindro Ullah

Managing Director, Trendence Institut GmbH & Blogger HR in Mind

Robindro Ullah is Managing Director of Trendence Institut GmH and an expert in the field of employer branding, personnel marketing and recruiting. Before joining Trendence, he was Managing Director and publisher of "hr|tomorrow exclusive", Germany's first HR trend magazine. Before that, Robindro Ullah worked for the Heidenheim-based technology group Voith GmbH as Head of Global Employer Branding, Recruiting and HR Communication. He was also Head of HR Marketing and Recruiting South at Deutsche Bahn AG. Robindro Ullah has been a sought-after speaker and moderator at various conferences such as the HR Manager Congress, the Social Recruiting Days and international events such as the HR Core Lab in Barcelona. The business mathematician is also a book author (e.g. Praxishandbuch Recruiting) and has received numerous awards for his work, including the DEPOK Award and the HR Excellence Award. Furthermore, he has been blogging for almost ten years on hrinmind.de, among others.

Thorsten Volz

Thorsten Volz is CEO of PERREK, a Mannheim-based agency for data-driven personnel marketing and recruiting. Together with his team, he supports employers in successfully reaching their candidates online and generating qualitative applications. Since 2013 he has been intensively involved in search engine, social media and performance marketing as well as their possible applications in HR marketing and recruiting. He brings his many years of experience in other digital disciplines such as e-commerce, lead generation or search engine optimization as transfer knowledge into his work with his clients or shares his experience as a speaker at various event formats with the interested HR scene.

Julia Bangerth

HR Innovation Award Jury Member
Chief Operating Officer, DATEV eG

Julia Bangerth has been a member of the Board of Management of DATEV eG since 2018, responsible for the topics of value-added management and HR. Her function as Chief Operating Officer (COO) includes controlling the product and solution portfolio, product and partner strategy, enterprise architecture, product design, quality management, workstream enablement and HR. DATEV eG is the software house and IT service provider for tax consultants, auditors and lawyers, but also for their clients, such as medium-sized companies, municipalities, associations and institutions.

The HR director focuses her HR work in particular on the topic of Future of Work: organisational culture, agile working, leadership, new forms of learning and networked cooperation. Julia Bangerth is a lawyer with many years of international experience in the fields of human resources, finance, law, communication and marketing. In various management positions she has worked on strategy, organizational and personnel development, developed and implemented new processes, carried out restructuring and led change projects.

Chris Boos

CEO, Arago 

Chris Boos has a mission: empowering human potential, freeing up time for creativity and innovative thinking through artificial intelligence (AI). To that end, Chris founded Arago in Germany in 1995, pushing existing boundaries in AI technology to build a general AI. Since then, Chris has led Arago to become a key partner and driver for the established economy, positioning Arago’s AI HIRO™ as a platform for companies to reinvent their business models in the digital age. But his ambitions go far beyond: a strong believer in integrating machine reasoning and machine learning, Chris is constantly challenging current thinking on AI. As a strategic corporate and political advisor, as well as angel investor, Chris’ multifaceted engagement for AI makes him a much respected public speaker and thought-leader on issues of global importance, such as the man-machine-relationship, the way societies deal with information and the future of labor.

Dr. Lars Janzik

CEO, Vertikal Media GmbH 

Since January 2018, Dr. Lars Janzik is CEO of Vertical Media. Until then, from March 2015, he was responsible for the digital products of the media brand WELT, an Axel Springer company. Previously, he served as Senior Director Product Management CE for the online recruiting specialist Monster, as well as in various executive positions for the software manufacturer Magix. Furthermore, in 2011 Lars completed his PhD on user innovation in online communities.

Alexandre Pachulski

Co-founder of Talentsoft and author

Rifka Pieper

Graduate economist Rifka Pieper started in 2011 in the Corporate Communications department of ING in Germany. Since 2015 she has been an HR expert for "Health, Work & Family, Inclusion Officer" and empowers employees to take their health into their own hands. She uses digital as well as classic BGM instruments to do this. She studied economics (Leibniz University Hannover).

Minister of Happiness Gina Schöler

Gina heads the nationwide initiative "Ministry for Happiness and Well-being", which aims to call on people to become active and work together to achieve gross national happiness through colourful activities and offers such as workshops and lectures. Close to everyday life, at eye level and with lots of fun, she invites people to become part of this positive movement. In many different and creative ways she encourages people to rethink and act: How do we want to live? What really counts and what makes us happy?

Dr. Utz Niklas Walter

Dr. Utz Niklas Walter is head of the Institute for Occupational Health Consulting (IFBG) based in Constance. He is one of the leading sleep experts in Germany - with a focus on the world of work. He also published the whatsnext study together with the Techniker Krankenkasse and the Haufe-Gruppe. This is the largest Corporate Health trend study to date, in which over 800 companies participated in 2017: www.ifbg.eu/whatsnext

Petra Zander

Petra Zander, graduate economist, studied business psychology, is full-time managing partner of Wachstum für Mensch und Organisation GmbH. Coming from the field of restructuring/redevelopment, it is always her concern to design changes in such a way that employees are taken along on their way and their well-being does not suffer. Today, she and her team accompany companies that have recognized health as a strategic factor and are aligning their organizational and employee development operationally with it.

Prof. Dr. Heike Bruch

Expert for Leadership and Human Resources Management
Prof. Dr. Heike Bruch is Professor of Leadership and heads the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen. She is also on the board of the DGFP and the ddn (Demographic Network) and is founder of the Organizational Energy Programme. Her main interests are leadership, employer branding and organizational energy - areas in which she has gained international renown with her publications and lectures, and which are becoming increasingly important for many companies in times of impending shortages of skilled personnel.

Ralph Goldschmidt

Graduate economist, sports scientist & speaker with passion

Ralph Goldschmidt, born 1963, studied economics, international management and sports science in Cologne and Milan. He is a lecturer at several universities, colleges and academies.

He successfully founded and managed two companies and, as an executive coach and trainer, helped numerous top executives to advance their professional and personal development. He is a sought-after interview partner in the media. Ralph Goldschmidt touches, moves and inspires 20,000 people a year in his lectures.

His clients include most of the DAX 30 companies, well-known medium-sized companies, renowned global players and numerous associations, including Airbus, Allianz, Bayer, BVMW, Commerzbank, Daimler, Dell, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Douglas, DWS, Dyson, E.ON, ERGO, Ernst & Young, Evonik, Fujitsu Siemens, Henkel, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, Linde, L ́Oréal, Lufthansa, Nestlé, Obi, Porsche, Puma, REWE, Roche, ZDF.

The feedback from his customers: "Entertaining, stirring, full-bodied, witty, stirring."

His book "Shake your Life. The right mix of career, love, lifestyle (GABAL Verlag), is also available as audio book.

Ralph Goldschmidt was not only successful. He knows stress, psychosomatic complaints, depression, feelings of guilt, bankruptcies, divorce, crises of meaning ... He knows what he's talking about. Today he lives "in balance" with his family (4 children) in Cologne.

Ralf Neuhäuser

"Human Cyborg"
Ambassador, Factory Campus

Ralf Neuhäuser, born in '65, Ambassador of the Düsseldorf Factory Campus, a 34,000 sqm coworking space and start-up hub in a former machine factory.

He began his personal digitalization - after a classical apprenticeship as a goldsmith - within the scope of a likewise still 100% analog design study with the purchase of an absurdly expensive Apple Macintosh and the autodidactic learning of 3D-CGI and web programming.

His multifaceted biography has had stations in the IT department of a large insurance company, as a web developer in Europe's leading PR agency, freelancer in the same field, co-founder of a Makerspace, lecturer at an academy of public administration and much more.