Thomas W. Kühr

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Thomas W. Kühr (* 1947 ) is a German financial investor and management consultant . He is considered one of the pioneers in the German private equity industry.

Life

Thomas Kühr began his professional career in 1973 in central controlling at Allgemeine Deutsche Philips Industrie GmbH (Alldephi) in Hamburg. At the beginning of 1976 he moved to the Deutsche Wagnisfinanzierungsgesellschaft (WFG) in Frankfurt, which had been founded shortly before by 29 state and private credit institutions in order to develop a venture capital market in Germany. When the number of independent venture capital companies increased in Germany in the early 1980s , he became managing partner of GENES Venture Services GmbH, which specializes in early-stage investments in high technology . In 1984 he was co-founder of the Luxembourg-based company International Venture Capital Partners and in 1986 co-founder of the Eindhoven and Stuttgart-based company Euroventures Germany . After working as managing director for Kommunale Investitions-Treuhand GmbH in Berlin, for which he set up various PPP infrastructure funds, he joined Deutsche Telekom in May 1997 . There, in October of the same year, Kühr became the founding manager of the corporate venture capital company T-Venture .

In 2005 Georg Schwegler, who had previously headed the T-Com Venture Fund to finance network companies, succeeded him as managing director. Kühr officially resigned for “personal reasons”, but his resignation from the management coincided with a report in Manager Magazin that he had obtained his doctorate at a Swiss letterbox university.

He then founded Equity4Ventures in 2006 to advise small and medium-sized companies and investors in the areas of due diligence , structuring and financing.

Associations

In 1987, Kühr co-founded the "German Venture Capital Association" (DVCV), the first advocacy group for the still young venture capital industry, and its founding president. After the merger with the Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsverbindungen in 1989, Kühr took over the position of deputy chairman of the board and left after the third term in May 1993. In 2001 he was re-elected to the committee and in 2003 successor to Werner Schauerte as chairman of the board.

In 1998 he co-founded the Düsseldorf-based Venture Capital Forum NRW (today: Private Equity Forum NRW ), which he chaired in 2000 and 2001. In addition, in 2000 he took over responsibility for the foundation research association (FGF) at EBS in Oestrich-Winkel , whose purpose is to create and improve the infrastructure for entrepreneurship research and teaching in Germany, as a new member of the executive committee Investor / Sponsor Relations area.

As a participant in the expert group on venture / seed capital of the chancellor's group of partners for innovation , Kühr helped shape the high-tech start-up fund launched in autumn 2005 , which is part of a public-private partnership and the like. a. is financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and 18 commercial enterprises.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c BVK> Portrait  ( 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. (PDF). Retrieved June 23, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bvkap.de  
  2. ↑ Andreas Uhde and Torsten Paßmann: "We were sitting on a gold mine" . VC-Magazin.de. April 22, 2009. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Market Mettle> T-Venture boss departs Deutsche Telekom amid innovation shake-up . Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Stefan Schultz: "Urge for validity: The advertised titles of the business elite" . Spiegel.de. May 12, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c Equity4Ventures> Profile ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 23, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.equity4ventures.de
  6. ↑ Deutsche Beteiligungs AG> Press releases> BVK appoints new board members . Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ verbaende.com> Personnel: Dr. Thomas Kühr new board member of the FGF . Retrieved June 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kühr, Thomas W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German private equity manager and pioneer in the German private equity industry
DATE OF BIRTH 1947