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Maria Birlem

CEO & Co-Founder, Yuri GmbH 

About Maria Birlem completed a degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Aachen from 2001 to 2005. As part of her studies, she worked on a research project in which she created the link budget for the student CubeSat project Compass 1. After graduating, she continued her career at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). Between 2006 and 2008 she wrote her diploma thesis at DLR Berlin, where she designed the interface of the launch electronics of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter. She also worked as a research assistant and intern at DLR Cologne on the ROSETTA - PHILAE Lander and EXOMARS projects. In 2009, Maria Birlem continued her professional career as a Young Graduate Trainee at ESA / ESTEC in the Netherlands, where she worked in the field of optical engineering on the calibration and performance evaluation of a laser communication telescope. In the same year, she took up a position at Airbus Defence & Space. In her role as programme manager, she led Airbus' commercial microgravity programme 鈥渒iwi鈥� and was responsible for the MMARS-1, MMARS-2 and 3DPrintOS projects as project manager. As a senior systems engineer, she was involved in various projects such as V3PO and BioScience-4. She also acted as Payload Integration Manager for ESA's EMCS (IOT team) and worked as a development engineer for SIMBOX. Since June 2019, she has been co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of Yuri GmbH, which develops biotech products using zero gravity. 

About Yuri GmbH 

is a space biotech company that leverages the unique conditions of microgravity to research and develop groundbreaking biotechnological innovations. Their modular bioreactors and incubators facilitate experiments with cell cultures, protein crystallization, and plant biology in space.

Julia R枚mer

Co-Founder & COO, Coolar UG
 

About Julia R枚mer 

Julia is an industrial engineer by training and the inventor of the Coolar system. She initiated the project that was to become Coolar while still a student at TU Berlin in 2014 with her later co-founders.
In addition to founding and leading Coolar, Julia developed patents for industrial-scale alternative cooling technology solutions and furthermore has been active in sustainability and environmental protection related advocacy. She was a member of the board at Germany's largest environmental NGO BUND e. V. (Friends of the Earth Germany) for 9 years. She still represents the organization on the jury for the German ecolabel 鈥淏lauer Engel鈥�.

From 2019 to 2021 Julia served as a member of the German federal government鈥檚 Hightech-Forum, an advisory board that advised government on research and innovation policy and inspired new legislation in several areas (i.e. tax benefits for R&D expenditures, promotion of social innovations).

About Coolar

is pioneering refrigeration technology for energy-efficient, water-based cooling. While planetary temperature records smash through levels of warming unseen by human civilizations year after year, ever more people seek relief from heat waves or cold storage for perishable goods. Coolar is a mechanical engineering company from Berlin piloting electricity-free cooling systems powered by solar heat that provide autonomous cooling for both off-grid clinics and campers. Coolar is the first company to develop compact-size thermal-driven and purely water-based continuous sorption cooling systems. 

Judith Gr眉mmer

Founder & CEO of 贵补尘颈濒颈别苍丑枚谤产耻肠丑 gGmbH

About Judith Gr眉mmer

Judith Gr眉mmer is an experienced radio journalist and audio biographer.

About 贵补尘颈濒颈别苍丑枚谤产耻肠丑 

gGmbH is a non-profit organization based in Cologne, Germany, that enables terminally ill mothers and fathers with minor children to create a professional audio biography. A 贵补尘颈濒颈别苍丑枚谤产耻肠丑 preserves the life story of the palliatively ill mother or father for posterity. In the voice so familiar to the child, told in their own words. Authentic. Personal. Affectionate. Dramaturgically professionally designed with the most modern techniques of audio journalism, each 贵补尘颈濒颈别苍丑枚谤产耻肠丑 becomes a personal treasure of memories. The family audio books are financed exclusively on a donation basis. All palliative patients included in the project currently receive their audio book free of charge. 

Dr.-Ing. Christina Linke

Co-Founder & CEO of Clean Ocean Coatings GmbH 
 

About Christina Linke 

Linke completed her Dr.-Ing. in Food Technology 2017 at the TU Berlin in cooperation with Symrise AG. She has seven years of experience in product development in Germany and abroad in a major international corporation. In addition, from 2018-19, she was an executive assistant at Cradle-to-Cradle e.V., committed to circular economy. As a passionate diver she always wanted to contribute to ocean health. When she stumbled upon her co-founder, the biofouling problem and the intriguing solution, she had to act and push the project. 

About Clean Ocean Coatings

sees itself as a highly specialized chemical company of tomorrow. It stands for the development and sales of environmentally harmless maritime coatings and offers ship operators sustainable solutions without fraudulent labeling in times of growing environmental awareness. Furthermore, the company stands for modern corporate culture, social fairness, and the service of the environment and humanity. From a technical point of view, we strive for solutions according to the cradle2cradle-principle, piece by piece. From the customer's point of view, we offer a better product that pays off.

Dr. Sonja Stuchtey

Co-Founder & CEO of The Landbanking Group

About Sonja Stuchtey

Sonja has a solid background in business administration and extensive experience in entrepreneurship and technology. She began her professional career as a management consultant at Booz Allen before turning her focus to her own entrepreneurial ventures. She founded SCIENCE LAB, an educational platform, as well as Alliance for Europe, a civic-tech company. As a director at the consulting firm AlixPartners, she focused on business optimization and innovation.

About The Landbanking Group

(TLG) is a Munich-based Nature Fintech Company building the infrastructure for a nature-based economy.  Its product, the natural capital management platform Landler.io, allows land stewards to be rewarded for positive nature outcomes and businesses to invest into positive nature impacts. The Landbanking Group is in service of the Paris and the Montreal agreement and aiming to bring natural capital onto our balance sheets. Using Earth observation and AI technology TLG offers innovative financial solutions to finance regenerative land use practices and nature conservation while increasing social justice on a global scale.

Nadine is the Head of Communications Europe for LONGi Solar, moderator, consultant and speaker with a focus on diversity, gender equality, leadership and entrepreneurship. At Germany鈥檚 largest online network for women, Digital Media Women (#DMW), she campaigns for the visibility of women on public stages as well as giving women a share of voice in the era of digitalization. At the DMW, she is also studying companies with at least 30 percent of female representation in the top three management levels.

Guido is Head of Government Affairs at Microsoft Germany, coordinating Microsoft鈥檚 external relations to government entities, members of parliaments and all other political stakeholders in Germany. 

Guido joined Microsoft in 2015 as Head of Regulatory Policy, overseeing external political and regulatory relations regarding the constantly growing regulatory exposure of the tech-sector.  Previously he served as Head of Public Affairs for United Internet in Berlin and Brussels. From 2007 until 2011 Guido served as Head of the Media Policy Department at BITKOM, Germany麓s largest ICT association. He is member of the board of of 鈥淪elbstregulierung Informationswirtschaft e.V.鈥� (SRIW).

Guido studied law at the University of G枚ttingen and the Trinity College Dublin and holds a PhD degree. He is specialized in telecom regulation, intellectual property, cybersecurity, e-commerce and data protection law and has published several scientific articles on these topics.

Dipika Dipika is a Senior Vice President at AlixPartners, with over 10 years of experience in operations and supply chain management. She collaborates closely with boards and management teams of industrial companies, specializing in the development of robust business plans and driving operational turnarounds. Dipika is committed to leveraging a data-driven approach to create value for her clients, helping them identify key opportunities and translate them into measurable results. In her previous roles, Dipika held various leadership positions at Mercedes-Benz Cars, where she led initiatives in production, process optimization, and the global implementation of digital transformation in production and supply chain management. Dipika holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School and a master鈥檚 degree in electrical engineering and information technology, from the University of Aachen (RWTH). She is fluent in Hindi, English, and German. 

Change 鈥� and her love for the city of Berlin 鈥� is the only constant in Maria鈥檚 life. She constantly questions the status quo, develops new ideas, and draws energy from challenges. Her career began in the corporate world but her curiosity led her to study Nonprofit Management and travel the world. Along the way, she realized that what she had always been searching for was working in a diverse and dynamic environment. Maria has worked with various accelerators and incubators, lectures on entrepreneurship, and embraces the lessons of failure and growth through her own startup experiences. What she loves most is bringing together diverse stakeholders to learn from one another and collaborate on building a sustainable future.

Torsten Oltmanns teaches as professor for economics and economic policy in Berlin and Innsbruck. After several years as a manager in politics, administration and industry and a carreer as consultant in international firms, he founded his own company, the "Center Sustainable Transformation". The center combines the analytical and creative skills of a think tank with the methods of a consultancy and supports companies and NGOs to succeed in their transformations. He is Chair of AmCham Germany's Regional Chapter Berlin-Brandenburg.

Xenia Scholl is a proud awardee of the AmCham Germany Female Founders Award 2019. She is Co-Founder and COO of Aitonomi AG, which operates in Germany with its subsidiary TeleRetail GmbH. Xenia Scholl focuses on transport automation technology developments for vehicles of different sizes and shapes: from large industrial vehicles to small retail robots. The proprietary Aitonomi Autopilot software enables fully autonomous operations of transport vehicles with payloads up to 55t. Xenia Scholl has more than 15 years professional IT experience and a strong passion for the development and implementation of technology innovations. Xenia Scholl successfully completed many national and international innovative projects for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, LG Electronics, and Kansai Electric. She cooperates with international partners such as NEOM and TK Elevator.
 

Andreas Schwaiger started his professional career at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1997, working in a variety of roles across different functions before being appointed Managing Director of TI Germany and Vice President. He is a member of the AmCham Germany Executive Committee, is wholeheartedly engaged in initiatives like NextGen and a jury member of the Female Founders Award since its start. Andreas Schwaiger is excited to uphold TI鈥檚 commitment to STEM development from school through university to a career in Engineering, particularly focusing female development in these areas. As executive sponsor of TI鈥檚 CSR branch in EMEA, he is strongly engaged in the team鈥檚 efforts, supporting initiatives like Girl鈥檚 Day and Female Tech Leaders, and acts as mentor for the initiative #BayFID supporting female talents in digital professions. For him, TI鈥檚 commitment to drive innovation and support start-up initiatives matches perfectly to the engagement with the AmCham Female Founders award.