Oliver Green

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Oliver Grün (born February 13, 1969 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German engineer and entrepreneur . He is the founder and board member of GRÜN Software AG in Aachen and president of the Federal Association of IT-Mittelstand . Since 2015 he has also been President of the European DIGITAL SME Alliance aisbl in Brussels. Grün is a member of the Young Digital Economy Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy .

Life

In 2001 he obtained a diploma in engineering from RWTH Aachen University , which was followed by a doctorate in philosophy in the field of business informatics at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 2005 and a second doctorate in philosophy in 2013 with authorization to teach .

At the beginning of his studies, Oliver Grün founded a software company in 1989 , today's GRÜN Software AG. The group of companies with over 150 employees and locations in Aachen, Bratislava , Berlin , Bremen , Vienna specializes in the production of industry software , among other things for member organizations, non-profit organizations , training providers and time management .

As chairman of the board and president, Oliver Grün has played a key role in the development of the Bundesverband IT-Mittelstand (BITMi) since 2010. The medium-sized IT entrepreneur represents the interests of medium-sized companies that differ from the IT industry.

In the list of the 100 most important German IT personalities last published in 2011 by Computerwoche , Oliver Grün was ranked 68th. In 2016, the editorial team of Politics & Communication magazine put Oliver Grün on the list of around 100 most important players in digitization in Germany.

Oliver Grün is a member of the “Digital Economy and Digital Work” platform for the organization of the federal government's digital summit. Since 2013 Oliver Grün has been a core member of the IT advisory board “Young digital economy” of the federal government , based in the Federal Ministry of Economics . He has also been a member of the Digital Economy Advisory Board of the state government in North Rhine-Westphalia since January 2017 . Since 2014 member of the Federal Economic Senate of the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises. Since 2019 he has been a member of the steering committee of the IT security initiative in the economy of the BMWi.

In 2016 he founded the digitalHUB Aachen eV, whose CEO he is to this day. In 2017 Oliver Grün was appointed to the Governing Board of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition by the European Commission.

Grün lives in a Belgian town near Aachen, is married and has three children.

Further activities and honorary positions

  • Member of the Advisory Board for Economics of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Bonn (since 2016)
  • Member of the Senate of the Deutsche Industrieforschungsgemeinschaft Konrad Zuse eV (since 2015)
  • Member of the Federal Economic Senate of the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises, Berlin (since 2014)
  • Jury member for the tender of the "German Internet Institute" for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Berlin (2016-2017)
  • Founding shareholder and advisory board member of the non-profit gut.org gAG, operator of the internet donation platform betterplace.org (since 2009)
  • Jury member "Germany's Digital Minds" of the Society for Computer Science on the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education, Berlin (2014)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management Board & Supervisory Board of GRÜN Software AG , accessed on June 4, 2019
  2. ↑ Oliver Grün was faster than Microsoft. Handelsblatt , November 18, 2009, accessed on May 2, 2014 .
  3. ↑ The BITMi Board , accessed on June 4, 2019
  4. ↑ Aachener Zeitung: Oliver Grün becomes Vice President of the European Association of IT SMEs , accessed on June 4, 2019
  5. ↑ Politics & Communication: Grün is the president of the SME association PIN-SME , accessed on June 4, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Advisory boards at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Federal Ministry of Economics , accessed on June 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Oliver Grün website: biography , accessed on May 2, 2014
  8. ↑ GRÜN Software AG locations. In: GRÜN Software AG. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The BITMi Presidium , accessed on June 4, 2019
  10. ↑ Top 100 personalities in the German IT landscape. Computerwoche , December 31, 2011, accessed May 2, 2014 .
  11. ↑ These are the most important players in digitization , accessed on June 5, 2019
  12. ↑ Advisory Board for the Digital Economy , accessed on June 5, 2019
  13. ↑ The BVMW Economic Senate , accessed on June 4, 2019
  14. ↑ control circuit. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
  15. ^ The Governing Board of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition , accessed June 5, 2019
  16. ^ Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI): Economic Advisory Board. April 8, 2019, accessed June 4, 2019 (German).
  17. ↑ zuse: Senate. Accessed June 4, 2019 (German).
  18. ↑ The Federal Economic Senate - BVMW. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ BMBF Internet editorial office: Five consortia develop a concept for the German Internet Institute - BMBF. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
  20. ↑ The betterplace.org team. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Federal Ministry of Education and Research: The jury on digital minds: Science Year 2014 - The Digital Society. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Green, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr