Thomas Clark (Author)

Thomas Clark (born May 8, 1970 in Vienna ) is a business journalist, publicist and entrepreneur. He launched the start-up initiative enable2start and is the initiator of the Energy Academy, which awards the Energy Awards, among other things.

Life

Clark studied business administration and law in Vienna as well as journalism and journalism in Cardiff . He has a PhD in labor law. After his legal clerkship, his first professional positions took him to Geneva via the International Labor Organization of the United Nations, to Brussels to the European Commission and to London to the BBC World Service . In 1999 he moved to Hamburg to help set up a German-language edition of the Financial Times . He was one of the first members of the founding editorial team. When the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) appeared in February 2000, he was the newspaper's media editor and did so for three years. He published numerous investigative reports on the case of the former media stars of the Neuer Markt such as EM.TV or Kinowelt as well as the end of the Kirch Group. During this time, Clark's first book was published: The Film Godfather - The Case of Leo Kirch . In mid-2003, Clark moved to the Financial Times' New York office, where he was a corporate correspondent. At the end of 2006 he returned to Hamburg and shortly afterwards was appointed head of corporate development at FTD. During this time he developed the start-up initiative enable2start, in which five startups each won 50,000 euros in cash and received editorial support for over a year, including business figures. In 2008, Clark left the FTD and started his own company, Ambo Media. However, he remained loyal to the newspaper as a consultant and was in charge of the start-up initiative enable2start until the FTD was closed in December 2012. Until then, a total of 1.25 million euros in cash were distributed to founders, financed by sponsorship money. At that time, the initiative was Germany's largest start-up award, with over 1000 applicants per year. The winners of enable2start included Mymuesli , Statista and Affiliprint. In January 2013, Clark's second book was published, which he wrote together with Burkhard Schwenker and which is dedicated to the potential of a united Europe. In February 2013, Clark started the Energy Awards & Academy together with the Handelsblatt and various media and business partners. The aim of this initiative is to set up a representative committee for the energy transition towards a world of renewable energy and to award lighthouse projects annually , in the first edition in four categories: energy house, energy start-up, commercial facility and means of transport.

Publications

• The film godfather. The case of Leo Kirch. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2002.
• Europe's Hidden Potential: How the 'Old Continent' Could Turn Into a New Superpower, Bloomsbury / A & C Black, London 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.enable2start.de
2. ↑ http://www.stock-world.de/forum/thread?thread_id=74770
3. ↑ http://www.genios.de/presse-archiv/artikel/FTD/20010831/kreditgeber-etzen-kinowelt-eine-fr/D5D735S9.html
4. ↑ http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/go/f3dfa575-508b-af43-912b71a2ddb4be46  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ http://kress.de/alle/detail/beitrag/37943.html
6. ↑ http://www.horizont.net/aktuell/haben/pages/protected/Thomas-Clark-wird-Leiter-Untern Unternehmensentwicklung-der- FTD_69142.html
7. ↑ http://www.energyawards.de

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Clark in the catalog of the German National Library