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Landmark in the Land of Ideas – The 21st EBS Symposium 2010
This coming fall, from 16-18 September, The European Business School (EBS) will be holding its annual student-run conference: The EBS Symposium.
Every year for almost the past two decades, the EBS Symposium has been held on the EBS campus, to great acclaim and with the participation of renowned speakers from the international world of business.
Based on three foundational pillars – Contact, Congress and Career – the symposium aims to bring together today's successful businesspeople with those just starting out in their careers, aiming for a successful tomorrow. The topic for the upcoming symposium will be: "Growth: A Future without Boundaries?" and speakers will address this subject based on their own personal knowledge and experience.
Over the last twenty years, the event has gathered close to 1,000 participants at each event, which is organized completely by students of the business school themselves and held on the campus in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany. This year, the event is being dedicated to its partner country of Turkey, in honor of the struggles it currently faces in the socio-economic arena. Also new this year is the establishment of a Student Panel for the symposium. Three exceptional students will be selected to participate in a discussion with experts in the realms of business management and the economy. Already slated to participate from the experts' end is Herbert Henzler, the Senior Advisor of the Chairman of Credit Suisse and formerly head of McKinsey Europe.
In addition to the symposium, a recruitment fair is being planned to allow participants to meet with representatives of top companies, including UBS and Bayer. At least 60 companies are expected to be represented, from the financial, consulting and manufacturing industries, as well as small business owners, political members and representatives of non-profit organizations. For the Grand Finale, an Innovations Fair will be held on the final evening to allow participants to hear about the latest cutting edge technology currently in development.
The symposium has several partners for the event; one is Gentle Swiss Racing, which is offering the winner of a raffle the opportunity to drive in their race taxi.
Following is a sampling of the conference's high level speakers:
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Schwenker
Burkhard Schwenker is currently employhed at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as the CEO, a position he has held for the last seven years since Roland Berger, the company's founder, stepped down. Following his first 3 years of exceptional service, the firm's partners gladly elected him to continue his work in the position.
Before becoming CEO he was no stranger to the firm, in fact following the completion of his doctorate, Schwenker joined Roland Berger over 20 years ago and has worked there ever since. In 1992 he became a partner in the firm, honoring his years of dedicated service and the great value his work and strategic thinking have brought to the company. Besides his commitments to Roland Berger, Schwenker also serves as a member of various professional organizations, such as the German Council on Foreign Relations, and as lecturer at a variety of academic institutes, with the Leipzig Graduate School of Management having granted him the title of honorary professor.
And in the realms of community service, Schwenker supports a number of important causes, including the WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature, Wertekommission e.V. and berufundfamilie gGmbH, and the German Sports Aid Foundation.
Dr. Michael Träm
Since becoming the CEO of Arthur D. Little, a leading management consulting firm, Michael Träm has brought his new firm to greater and greater heights in the world of business and spearheaded an annual growth that is twice what he industry expects.
Prior to joining Arthur D. Little, Träm had an illustrious professional history. Trained as a lawyer and having worked for a short period as a Junior Barrister, Träm went to work for A.T. Kearney, where he worked his way up first to Vice President and global strategy team member, then to managing director for Central Europe as well as a global senior leadership team member. Ultimately Träm became the Managing Director of the firm's Profit Centre for Greater Europe as well as part of the global Operating Committee. After these many years of service, Träm moved on to an executive position with Celerant Management Consulting, before being wooed over to Arthur D. Little to take up the mantle of CEO.
In addition to his work at Arthur D. Little, Träm is also an author of several books, a university guest lecturer and an active humanitarian.
Dr. Wolfgang Plischke
Bayer AG welcomed Wolfgang Plischke to its Board of Management in 2006, prior to which he served on its executive committee for healthcare, while also leading its division for pharmaceuticals. In this position he supervised all matters pertaining to prescription drugs manufactured by Bayer, and their sale worldwide.
Plischke's entire professional career has been interwoven with Bayer, in fact. Following the attainment of his degree in biology at Hohenheim University, he went to work for Miles Diagnostics, one of Bayer's daughter companies. Over the next 15 years he grew within the company and named President of Japan's Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. Five years later he traveled west to become Bayer's head of the North American pharma business group, and two years later was appointed head of Pharma business group worldwide.
Besides his work for Bayer, Plischke does a great deal of work within the community, serving as board member and holding other offices of social and professional groups. He is the vice president of the CEFIC, a council that deals with the chemical industry in Europe; he chairs a council that deals with research and innovation; and he is a board of trustee member at the Paul Ehrlich Foundation as well as the German Chemical Industry Fund.
Dr. Dirk Notheis
Dirk Notheis is the CEO of Morgan Stanley AG, a position he took up in 2009 at the incredibly young age of 40. Notheis first began working for Morgan Stanley in 1999, after a five year stint as senior director, corporate finance at SGZ-Bank in Frankfurt/Main. At first his portfolio of responsibilities included transportation, public and infrastructure, and lodging and leisure for the sector that was comprised of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He was later promoted to become a member of the Board of Management and ultimately CEO. In his new role, Notheis works with the bank's highest profile clients, advising them, from his wealth of experience in investment banking, to make choices that can reduce their risk while allowing them to grow inside a bevy of new markets.
Besides his work for Morgan Stanley, Notheis is a strong supporter of the arts – both visual and aural – particularly in his homeland, Germany, where he often visits galleries to view new exhibitions, and where he sits as a member of the Freundeskreis of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, a private opera house.
Johannes Huth
Johannes Huth came to work for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in 1999, a private equity firm that deals with mergers and acquisitions and buyouts in large companies. Throughout his time at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Huth has played a key part in developing a number of companies, including MTU Aero Engines, ATU, Zumtobel, Demag, Wincor Nixdorf and Selenia, among many others.
Huth received a first class education, gaining his bachelor's degree in economics from the LSE, and his MBA from the University of Chicago. He also studies French at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. After receiving his education, Huth went to work for Salomon Brothers Mergers and Acquisitions Group in NY, soon after being moved to their London office, where he was made vice president and co-leader of the European operations.
After leaving Salomon Brothers, Huth worked briefly for Investcorp and then joined Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co., where his career has continued to flourish. Today he serves as the firm's head of European Operations, and sits on the company's investment committee and as a member of its management committee.
Dr. Michael Frenzel
Today the chairman of TUI Travel PLC and the CEO of TUI AG, Michael Frenzel has had a rich and illustrious career. His degree is from Ruhr university, where he attained a doctorate in law, deciding ultimately to enter the world of finance. At Westdeutsche Landesbank he took on a series of managerial roles, heading up their industrial holdings dept. as well as their equity holdings division. Leaving for Preussag AG, he became part of their board of executives, rising to become the board's chairman in 1994. Frenzel guided the company to become the leading Group in the tourism industry for all of Europe, a feat achieved in large part by acquiring other tourism companies.
Frenzel's success led to his being appointed chairman of Hapag-Lloyd AG, a major tourism company taken over by Preussag, and when the name of the company was changed from Preussag AG to TUI AG, he was appointed Chairman of TUI Travel PLC.
Dr. Reto Francioni
Reto Francioni serves today as the CEO of Deutsche Börse AG, as well as sitting on the company's board of executives and heading up its management board. After achieving a PhD in law at Zurich University, Francioni began his career back in 1981, when he was recruited by Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft. He proceeded to work there for 4 years before moving over to Schweizerische Kreditanstalt. He then served for the next four years at the Association Tripartite Bourses, where he was deputy management chair, and a co-team leader for the company's EBS project. A one-year stint at Hofmann-La Roche and time spent working in the securities industry culminated in Francioni moving to his current place of employment, Deutsche Börse. There he won great acclaim for spearheading the development of Xetra, an electronic trading platform. After a period of serving as CFO, Francioni was made CEO.
About the Author
William R. Feins is a freelance journalist currently living in London; he received his B.A. degree in Economics and his Masters in Sociology. William has always been interested in the mechanics of business and the inspiration of original thinkers, and firmly believes that the former can't succeed without the latter. In his spare time, he enjoys the ridiculous spectacle of watching table tennis on a big screen (preferably at a pub) and reading weighty tomes about World War II. Visit the Eurocheddar blog post!
