Michael Anders has been working in the field of EU funding since his studies of electrical engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. While EU funding for large and multinational collaborative research programs was initially the main focus, his field of activity has now extended to include individual project and network funding. Mr. Anders established (of course with EU funding) various business incubators and technology centers and accompanied numerous funding projects in various sectors over the last 30 years. Mr. Anders’ successful funding projects are characterized by the networking of different partners and individual product development based on his technical know-how.

Gisela Iwersen has worked successfully for many years as a graduate economist in several owner-managed medium-sized companies as a board member and managing director. This included the commercial management of a medium-sized production company in the packaging industry. Here, in her own development department, customer-specific constructive transport packaging was developed and produced in small and large series. Since 1996, Ms. Iwersen has been preparing and processing applications for subsidies for various programs and has built up special expertise in the area of financing. Since 2017, Ms. Iwersen has been in charge of technology transfer at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, where she has built up the founding incubator “Beuth Startup Hub” for approximately 12 founding teams each with their own scholarship program.

Dr. Peter Harnischfeger studied physics (TU Darmstadt) and held different management positions in several international companies; he was managing director of an SME. He worked in various industries (e.g. chemical, IT, eCommerce) and in global corporations, JVs, associations, startups, and NGOs. Peter has extensive international experience on all continents and has lived and worked in Japan for several years. He is successful as business mentor with a focus on organizational and cultural development, business transformation, C-level coaching, and is an expert for the cooperation between traditional companies / organizations and startups.

Suwaythan completed his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at the TU Darmstadt. At Siemens, Volkswagen and as a research assistant at Merck, he was able to build up his very broad spectrum of technical knowledge. International experience through an internship at Sulzer AG in Houston and a semester abroad at the TU Graz complete his profile. Suwaythan has also contributed to two scientific papers and supports our consulting and innovation team at Euverion with his expertise.