DPhil Oliver Grün is founder and CEO of GRÜN Software Group GmbH as well as president of the Federal Association IT-Mittelstand eV
Biography Oliver Grün, PhD.
DPhil Oliver Grün, Born in 1969, lives in Belgium near Aachen, is married and has three children, is the founder and majority shareholder of GRÜN Software Group GmbH as well as president of the Federal Association IT-Mittelstand eV and President of the IT-Mittelstand-Europaverband European DIGITAL SME Alliance, Since 2013 he is also in the Advisory Council of the Federal Government Appointed “Young Digital Economy”. who advises the Federal Ministry of Economics on issues relating to the digital economy.
In his scientific career based on the principle of lifelong learning, Grün first completed his studies in engineering in 2001, then did a double doctorate in the field of business informatics and is the author of several publications over the years.
The family man, who now lives in Belgium, founded his software house in 1989, which now employs around 300 people at seven locations in different companies. Grün is also a co-founder of the non-profit operator of the donation platform betterplace.org, now Germany's largest donation portal on the Internet. In addition to the family, his greatest interest is sailing.
| 2017 - today | member of Advisory Council Digital Economy of the NRW State Government |
| 2017 - today | Chairman of the Board of the digitalHUB Aachen eV |
| 2015 - today | President of European DIGITAL SME Alliance, the European Association of IT SMEs in Brussels |
| 2013 - today | member of Advisory Council of the Federal Government "Young Digital Economy" |
| 2011 - today | Managing Partner of GREEN Services Group GmbH |
| 2010 - today | President and CEO of the Federal Association IT-Mittelstand eV (BITMi), Aachen / Berlin |
| 2009 - today | Co-founder and Advisory Board member of gut.org gAG, Berlin, operator of the donation platform betterplace.org |
| 2007 - today | Co-Managing Director in subsidiaries of GRÜN Software Group GmbH: |
| 2000 - today | Founder, majority shareholder and CEO of the GRÜN Software Group GmbH (formerly GRÜN Software AG), Aachen |
| 2008 – 2013 | Second Promotion, Comenius University, Bratislava; Focus: business informatics, dissertation topic: requirements management & knowledge-based model for software implementation; PhD supervisor Assoc. Prof Michal Gregus, PhD; Doctoral examination 2013, title Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD.) with entitlement to teach |
| 2005 | Award at the IT Innovation Award, Hanover; Category knowledge management for knowledge-based model for software implementation |
| 2004 – 2005 | Promotion, Comenius University, Bratislava, Major: Business Informatics, Thesis topic: Knowledge-based model for software implementation; Doctoral Assistant Assoc. Prof. Michal Gregus, PhD., Doctoral Exam 2005, Doctor of Philosophy in Economics |
| 2004 – 2007 | Founder and head of the sole proprietorship GRÜN Business Services Slovakia, Bratislava; Second home in Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 1995 | Awarded the European Software Marketing Award, Hannover |
| 1993 – 2000 | Founder and Managing Director of GRÜN Software GmbH, Aachen |
| 1990 – 2001 | Education, RWTH University, Aachen; Main focus: civil engineering, structural engineering Diploma examination 2001, diploma in engineering |
| 2019 - today | Member of the steering committee of the initiative IT security in the economy of the BMWi |
| 2017 - today | Platform member “Digital economy and digital work” at the federal government's digital summit, Berlin |
| 2017 - today | Member of the Governing Board of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition of the European Commission, Brussels |
| 2016 - today | member of Economic Forum of the FDP as a party independent expert |
| 2016 - today | Member of the Managing Board of the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO), Brussels |
| 2016 - today | member of Advisory Board for Economy of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) the Society for Computer Science, Bonn |
| 2015 - today | member of Senate of the German Industrial Research Association Konrad Zuse eV |
| 2014 - today | member of Federal Economic Senate of the Federal Association of Small Business, Berlin |
| 2008 - today | Jury member of the IT Innovation Award the Initiative Mittelstand |
| 2016 – 2017 | Jury member for the announcement of the "German Internet Institute " for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Berlin |
| 2014 – 2015 | member of CDU commission "Work of the future - future of work", CDU Germany, Berlin, as a party independent expert |
| 2014 | Jury member "Germany's digital heads“Of the GI on the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education, Berlin |
| 2012 – 2015 | Full member of the working group 1 on IT Summit, Federal Ministry of Economics, Berlin |
| 2011 – 2014 | Appraiser for the sponsorship competition usability in small and medium-sized enterprises within the framework of the Initiative Mittelstand Digital, Federal Ministry of Economics, Berlin |
| 2011 – 2015 | Member of the Supervisory Board of SOPTIM AG, Software Company, Aachen / Essen |
| 2005 – 2010 | Member of the Audit Committee of the IHK Aachen to IT-Professionals Training, Aachen |
