Our Advisory Board

Burkhard Kehrbusch

Chairman of the Advisory Board

Burkhard Kehrbusch is the founder and owner of Kehrbusch Management Consulting. He has 30 years of experience in complex IT projects and large change programs for well-known companies in various industries. Professional stations were: Global CIO of GfK in Nuremberg, Head of the German Capgemini Technology Services, Member of the Management Board of sd&m AG in Munich. Burkhard Kehrbusch holds a degree in computer science from RWTH Aachen University and is a member of the Industry Advisory Board at the University of Paderborn.

Michael-Florian Ranft

Member of the Advisory Board

Michael-Florian Ranft is an attorney and senior partner of one of the leading international law firms. For these he has developed the Asian and especially the Chinese market, including the establishment and development of three offices in China (1996 Shanghai, 2008 Beijing, 2015 Hong Kong). For almost three decades he has been working with a focus on international business law. His clients are primarily globally operating MNCs and medium-sized companies from technology-oriented industries such as automotive, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, medical technology and IT. Michael-Florian Ranft has published regularly on China and is a board member of Asian-related associations.

Dr. Philipp S. Müller

Member of the Advisory Board

Dr. Philipp S. Müller is Head of Public Policy DACH Amazon Web Services. Previously he was Managing Partner at Gartner Consulting and General Manager Public Sector for Central Europe at DXC Technology. He is on the board of Initiative D21, in the MOC network of Harvard Business School and is a visiting professor at Danube University Krems.  He studied and received his doctorate at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Georgetown University and Harvard University.

Urs Krämer

Member of the Advisory Board

Urs M. Krämer is CEO of Sopra Steria Germany and Austria and is responsible for all business activities in the DACH region. He is also a member of the Group Board of the listed Sopra Steria Group, a leading European management and technology consultancy based in Paris. As a strategist and management consultant, his main focus is on digitalization and change management. In his eyes, a central lever for economic success beyond classic factors is corporate culture. Urs M. Krämer holds a degree in industrial engineering from the TU Darmstadt.