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We regularly scrutinize our approaches, theories and methods with people we trust.
With our experience from start-ups and large corporations, we understand the challenges that founders and managers face on a daily basis. We have led international programs, projects and teams and therefore know how valuable it is to work in an intercultural environment. Our approach is interdisciplinary: we combine management and alpinism with insights from various disciplines such as behavioral economics.
The team.
Robby Kirsten
CEO & Founder
Robby Kirsten is General Sales Manager at thyssenkrupp Materials Processing Europe. He leads a Europe-wide team and is jointly responsible for the strategic direction of the organization beyond the operational business. He also heads the central Sales Excellence department, which deals with sales processes - including CRM - digital solutions for customers and the green transformation and drives these topics forward.
Er ist leidenschaftlicher Bergsteiger und Autor des Buchs „Was Management von Alpinismus lernen kann“ (Springer).
Er hat einen Executive Master in International Business an der ESCP Paris, spricht Englisch, Französisch und Deutsch und wohnt in Düsseldorf und Paris.
Joachim Warschat
External Partner
Joachim Warschat is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the FernUniversität in Hagen. He was Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering for many years and is a Scientific Advisor to the European Economic Senate as well as a Visiting Scientist at Kansai University, Osaka and Konan University, Kobe, Japan. He is co-founder of cirp GmbH: Additive Manufacturing and Rapid Tooling.
His work focuses on the optimization of innovation processes and the development and application of AI methods for technology management.
Joachim Warschat is the author of over 250 publications. He received the Europe INNOVA Award for the Best Innovation Tool for the “Assessment Tool of the IMP3rove Project” in 2008 and the Best Paper Award in the “Service & Management” category at ICPR21 in 2011.
Georgios Brussas
External Partner
Georgios Brussa's focus is on interim management, start-ups and working in an international context.
Most recently, he worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, after which he founded the tech start-up Cybery, which uses artificial intelligence to make global supply chains more transparent and resilient. This was successfully sold to Matchory in 2022.
He also initiated the founding of the TechAcademy, a knowledge community that combines the fields of business administration and IT in order to meet the demands of the modern labor market.
Georgios completed his studies in economics and business informatics at the Universities of Mainz and Frankfurt, graduated with the best Master's degree of his year and was voted Student of the Year 2021 in Germany.
He was a guest lecturer at the BSP Business & Law School and is fluent in German, Greek and English.
Stefan Schneider
External Partner
As Energy Manager at Siemens, Stefan Schneider is responsible for the energy efficiency of the Erlangen site with more than 5,000 employees. He analyzes processes, defines measures, manages their implementation, and has achieved savings in the high hundreds of millions. Top managers of the technology group trust his analyses.
Stefan holds a Bachelor of Science in Process Engineering, which he completed with a scholarship and at the top of his class. He also completed his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering with top honors. He speaks German and English.
Stefan is driven by facts and values judgments based on evidence rather than speculation. As a result, he understands the importance of sound decision-making processes and advises other organizations and companies in this area.