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Koch, Günter R.#

G. KLoch
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Information details#

Tel. ++43-699-19412152 (best connection for any phone contact)
Email (private): guenterkochat@gmail.com (or: koch@execupery.com )
Official: HCMHumboldt@gmail.com ; guenter@thedigitaleconomist.com
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Date of birth : 04.08.1947
Nationality : German (living in Austria since 1998)
Family Status : formally married; separated and living in a relationship. 2 children (born in 1979 and 1981)

Professional Career#

2024 Member of the Directorate of Kunsthalle Glashütte (https://glashutte-herrenhaus.com/)2024 Member of the Directorate of Kunsthalle Glashütte (https://glashutte-herrenhaus.com/)2024 Member of the Directorate of Kunsthalle Glashütte (https://glashutte-herrenhaus.com/)
2024 Head of the Center of Excellence on Human-centered Global Economy of The Digital Economist (www.thedigitaleconomist.com)
2023 Nominated as Chairman of the Board of the World Capital Institute (www.worldcapitalinstitute.org) (WCI); Head of WCI’s think tank on Alternative Economics.
2018 - ongoing Co-founder and President of GRASPnetwork (www.graspnetwork.net ) – an association devoted to using art methodologies in scientific and knowledge discourses
2017 – 2021 President of the (Austrian-based) Research Group on the Economy for the Common Good
2013 - ongoing Founding President of the Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity (www.humboldt- cosmos-multiversity.org), Tenerife, La Laguna – Tacoronte – Puerto de la Cruz
2013 - ongoing Vice Chairman of the Board (Aufsichtsrat) of the GIS Systemhaus GmbH, Germany
2009 onwards Adj. Prof. at the IICM Institute (Prof. H. Maurer) at the Graz University of Technology
2006 – 2008 Managing Director of the ‘Central European Institute of Technology’ (CEIT), Schwechat, Vienna Airport location, Austria (www.ceit.at )
2006 – 2013 Co-Founder and General Secretary of THE NEW CLUB OF PARIS, an association engaged in supporting the transition of the “Information Society” into the “Knowledge Society” (see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Club_of_Paris - in German only so far - and www.new-club-of-paris.org )
2004 – ongoing Chairman & Partner of execupery (www.execupery.com ), an enabler in technology & research management with special focus in IT & Software Engineering, and also Partner of KM-A (see www.km-a.net ), Austria’s leading knowledge management group.
2004/2005 Member of the EU High Level Expert Group on Intellectual Capital Reporting (i.e. preparing of Intellectual Capital Statements for augmented investment in research = “RICARDIS Report”)
2003/2004 Founding Managing Co-Director of the F+U Continuing Education Company in Austria, Vienna
2001 – 2009 President of the Austrian Association for Research in IT (AARIT)
2001 - 2004 Chairman of the Board (“Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender”) of TopCall AG, a Telecom Integration Company (filed at the Frankfurt and then Vienna stock exchange)
2001 - 2003 In addition to Mng. Directorship at Seibersdorf Research, Member of the Management Board (with responsibility for R&D) of the Austrian Research Centers (Holding) = ARC, shareholding 15 Research & Development companies, totalling to about 1000 highly qualified employees in R&D.
2002/2003 President of the Association ”Austria Research” (“Forschung Austria”)
2000 – 2004 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the DotCom company offert.com AG, Vienna.
1998/3 – ongoing Visiting Professor of the Danube University., Krems, Austria
1998/2-2003 Managing Director with overall responsibility in Technology & Research of the Austrian Research Centers, Seibersdorf (ARCS, meanwhile called ”ARC Seibersdorf research” = ARC Sr), a ~650 employees‘ organisation, active in all leading high tech areas, as well as in nuclear technology. ARC / ARC Sr was and is Austria‘s largest organisation of its kind.
By position as Mng. Director of ARC also vice president of the board of arsenal research GmbH, Austria‘s 2nd largest federal R&D organisation, share owned by ARC.
Member of the EUROTECH group, the No.1 European Round Table of Heads of European applied R&D organisations).
University lectures on ”Research Management” at Technical University of Vienna.
1998 / 1 Head of Division IT & T/Telematics of ARCS. Scope of technologies to be managed : Internet-IT, System Engineering, Telecom and Telematics solutions, High Performance Image / Vision, IT Safety & Security. Also : nominal Professor in Telecommunication Management at the Donau- Universität Krems from on 1998 until today.
1997 Director of SYNLOGIC AG, Basel, and top level Enterprise Consultant & Software Architect at SUN Microsystems Computer Corp.`s International Enterprise Center (IEC) in Geneva, Switzerland, with global responsibilities. Major Work : Consultancy to Swiss Government in IT Strategies and to UBS bank in their course of merger with SBC Bank, focussing on future IT architectures, in specific in ”Enterprise Computing”
1993 - 1996 General & Founding Director of the European Software Institute (ESI), Bilbao, Spain, with general responsibility. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Software_Institute ESI‘s mission is R&D in software process methodology, consultancy in IT / SW project & process management and in associated information and training services. Management of all institute´s programmes, of its subcontractors and its contractual relationships on international level.
ESI at that time was shareowned by industry and the Basque Governement and financed by the European Commission, which was the founding patron of this international institute.
Major objective of institute´s work was the extension of ISO 9000- and TQM-standards such as the EFQM model for IT / SW organisations, generating a new follow-up ISO quality standard then being introduced in 1997. Special experience with system-, telecom- and banking-industries in all over Europe in specific applying standards such as ISO 15504. Customers served in all Europe and South America.
1991 - 1994 Professor in System Analysis and System Construction at Graz University of Technology and managing partner of an IT consultancy firm in Freiburg i.Br. , Germany (parallel to company directorship).
Project leader in a pan-European project developing a breakthrough software process assessment methodology (called BOOTSTRAP), initially applied at BOSCH, SIEMENS, Deutsche Telekom, DATEV, Hofmann-La- Roche (Basel), as well as at City Bank (Düsseldorf) and other prime clients.
1993 Initiator of a Start-Up Initiative with computer science graduates of the Technical University of Graz, leading to the foundation of the CampusArt association, a virtual cooperation company and an incubator for entrepreneurs.
1988 - 1993 CEO of the software house ”2i Industrial Informatics” in Freiburg i.Br., Germany, being the repositioned company Biomatic GmbH. Specialisation in integration projects for hospitals and publishing companies, and in software development for automation in industrial production and machinery. Customers mainly from Germany.
Also Co-Mng. Director of a share-owned software company, 2i SynSpace AG in Basel, Switzerland.
Member of the “Conseil Administratif” of the French “Université de Compiègne à Sévenan”
1985 - 1988 Managing Director of a public-private Technology Centre in Germany with major mission to create and to develop start-up high tech companies (in parallel to the maintained position as Mng. Director mentioned at Biomatic GmbH).
1982/83 Member of the very first IT R&D project evaluation committee to the EU in the then freshly started R&D programmes, today called EU Framework Progamme. Continuation in this role actively to IT- related programmes of the EU Framework Programmes until 1992, then on demand. Taking up this activity as evalutation expert in 2003 in the 6th Framework Programme, there concentrating on Micro- & nanao technologies.
1981 - 1985 Founder and Managing Director of a software project company ”Biomatic GmbH”, specialised in medical and biological informatics. Clients mainly in Southern Germany.
Founder of the ”Synergy Workshop” (1984 - 2009) having brought together twice per year most selected personalities from top management such as board members from very large companies as well as top directors from R&D working on subjects of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature.

Education / Honours#

2019 Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.) for life achievements in science by the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania.
2006 (May) Decoration with the Austrian “Cross of Honour 1st Class for Achievements in Science and Arts”, awarded by the President of the Republic of Austria.
1992/98/03 Appointment as (Visiting) University Professor in Austria, approbated for reasons of qualification comparable to `Habilitation`. Today giving lectures on R&D management at University of Technology of Vienna (also having been finalist candidate in 1997 as Rector of this University as well as in 2000 at the University of Konstanz, Germany, as well as in 2003 as No. 2 candidate at the famous Vienna University).
Holding a professorship at the “Danube-University” in Krems, Austria, in the domain of Telecommunications Management, there doing research in R&D methodologies.
2001 Award: “Kaplan Medaille” for the invention “Pattern Recognition applied to Bank Note Quality Control”
1987 - 1989 Participation in courses in general and special advanced management. Specific intensive education in St. Gallen’s Management Center (1998) in Switzerland.
1975 - 1981 Assistant and Assistant Professor at Karlsruhe University, Faculty of Informatics, Institute For Applied Informatics In Industrial Process Automation (Prof. Rembold). Special teaching and research in application oriented software construction / engineering and software management.
1972 - 1975 Master in Computer Science at Karlsruhe Technical University. Thesis in adaptable and sizeable hardware architectures for interpretation of higher level languages.
1968 - 1972 Bachelor in Electrical Engineering at Karlsruhe University, including qualification in information electronics / control theory.
1967 - 1968 Practical apprenticeship in electrical and mechanical engineering at its time to be fulfilled as a precondition for admission to a Politechnical University in Germany.
1967 Maturation with awards at Kepler-Gymnasium, Freiburg i. Br., Germany

Languages#

German (native), English (fluent), French (good/fluent – see also appointment to French University Council), Spanish (passive / basic, as having worked in Spain for four years and now residing part time swince 2012).

Affiliations#

- Member of German Association of Engineers (VDI, since 1967) and of the German Society of Informatics (GI)
- Member of each the Swiss and the Austrian Computer Societies
- Member of German Society For Measurement and Control (GMR)
- Member of IEEE Software (USA), also being elected to their Industrial Advisory Board 1994 – 2002, continuing as past member
- Member of ACM (USA)
- Associate of the KENOS Circle (www.kenos.at)
- (1991 - 1993) Member (on personal mandate) of the Administration Board of the Sévenan Branch of the French University of Compiègne
- Member of French-German Association for Scientific-Technical Cooperation
- Member of and adjunct professor at the Institute for New Media (Prof. H. Maurer) at Graz University of Technology.
- Ex-Member of the Economic Council (”Wirtschaftsrat”) of the German Conservative Party
- Member of the Management Circle of the Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin
- Member of different Austrian Associations, partly being member of their boards
- Consultant (on demand) to the European Commission, German, Swiss and Austrian Governments.

Publications, Scientific Work & related Expertise (separate list; also see#

www.execupery.com -> Publications)

One of the latest is a book titled “Knowledge For The Anthropocene - A Multidisciplinary Approach” co-issued and co-edited and written by Francisco Javier Carrillo, President of The World Capital Institute, and Günter Koch, Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity, Tenerife, Spain

More than 100 publications on specific topics in IT and SW engineering, software technologies (methods and tools, in specific in requirements engineering ), on general and special IT/SW management, process/project management, process measurement, financement and investment for company development, process analysis and change (management), as well as strategies for developing European IT / SW industries.

Since mid of 90ties contributions to knowledge management, in specific to “Intellectual Capital Reporting”, methods of company valuations and specific issues in Corporate Government. Creation of a set of management methods for managing R&D organisations, such as intellectual capital reporting, Active Scorecard Management, Visioning Workshop.
Also having received the “Victor Kaplan Innovation Award” (1999, Vienna) which states achievements made in pattern recognition & interpretation technologies.
Public (non scientific) articles on Science & Technology for large distribution in Newspapers. Frequent weekend columns in public newspaper on latest achievements in technologies.

Lecturing #

Many lectures on Technology & Research Management at Vienna University of Technology and at Danube University, Krems) and at Graz University of Technology:

CV Diagram#

CV diagram
Diagram created by G. Koch