Abraham Taherivand
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Abraham Taherivand (born February 11, 1978 in Tehran ) is a German computer scientist and manager in the IT sector and board member of Wikimedia Germany .
Life
Abraham Taherivand grew up in Karlsruhe and studied business informatics at the Stuttgart Media University , information management and information engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. Since 1999 he has lived in Berlin with short breaks . He was a consultant and project manager, especially in the IT area (IT strategy, agile infrastructures and processes, product innovation), and from 2008 worked as a serial entrepreneur (serial founder). He is also the founder and partner of various startups, including the beer publisher Unverhopft from Berlin.
Taherivand has been working for the Wikimedia Germany association - Society for the Promotion of Free Knowledge e. V. (WMDE) based in Berlin, initially as a project manager for Wikidata and later as head of software development. At the end of 2016, he was initially appointed by the Presidium as an interim director, and in January 2017 as the managing director of Wikimedia Germany.
His hobbies include Asian martial arts and healing practices, he is a passionate chess player and beer publisher.
Fonts
- Abraham Taherivand, Annie Kerguenne, Hedi Schaefer: Design Thinking. The agile innovation strategy (= TaschenGuide . No. 307 ). 1st edition. Haufe-Lexware, Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-648-10022-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Abraham Taherivand in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Abraham Taherivand in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography at re: publica'19 (on the occasion of a lecture "15 years of Wikimedia")
- Short biography at collaboratory.de
- Podcast WikiStammtisch - conversation from summer 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Alphabetical list of persons >> Taherivand, Abraham. In: collaboratory.de. Retrieved May 15, 2019 (short biography).
- ↑ Thomas Redders: Unverhoft: Hell (es) awake. In: Hopfenhelden. The beer magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
- ↑ unverhopft.de
- ^ Lydia Pintscher: The Wikidata team . WMDE Blog, April 4, 2012.
- ↑ Tim Moritz Hector: Abraham Taherivand becomes interim director . WMDE Blog, December 8, 2016
- ↑ Tim Moritz Hector: Abraham Taherivand confirmed as board member of Wikimedia Germany . WMDE Blog, January 30, 2017
- ↑ Thomas Redders: Unverhoft: Hell (es) awake. In: Hopfenhelden. The beer magazine. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taherivand, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist and manager in the IT sector as well as board member of Wikimedia Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran |