Born in 1964, Dr. Brigitte Mohn is the daughter of Bertelsmann Stiftung founders Liz Mohn and the late Reinhard Mohn (1921–2009). She studied political science, art history and German philology at the universities of Bamberg, Munster and Augsburg, earning a Master of Arts in 1991 and subsequently a doctorate. In 2001 she received an MBA from the Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz and the Kellogg Institute in the United States.

Her career has included positions with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy; Bantam, Doubleday and Dell Publishing in New York; McKinsey in Hamburg; and Pixelpark in Switzerland.

Since 2001, she has served as chair of the German Stroke Foundation’s Executive Board. In 2002, she also became director of the Health program at the Bertelsmann Stiftung. She has been a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board since January 1, 2005.

Martijn is a co-founder and Managing Partner at CATALPA GmbH & Co. KG, a single-family office focused on investments in private equity, venture capital and real estate.

Prior to setting up the CATALPA Family office, Martijn was an Executive Director and General Manager at E. Breuninger GmbH. & Co., Germany’s leading chain of fashion and lifestyle department stores, where he worked for over ten years in various management positions, being an integral part of the successful trading-up strategy executed over the past years.

Before coming to Germany, Martijn held various management positions in the hotel industry in Hong Kong and the USA. Martijn holds a degree in International Hospitality Management from the Hotelschool The Hague.

Stephen is a private investor with interests in impact investing and education.

For 30 years he was involved in the family retail business and now holds governance positions within the organisation.  He has been involved in impact investing since 2002 and founded Willows Investments in 2008 with the aim of supporting promising ventures with a social mission.

He serves on the boards of Social Stock Exchange (UK), responsAbility AG (Zurich) and Sutton Trust (UK).  He is on the supervisory board of the European Climate Foundation (The Hague) and is a trustee of both the Mentoring Foundation (UK) and NTYE UK [Network for Training Young Entrepreneurs].  He is on the advisory board of Auticon (UK).

Dr. Nathalie von Siemens has been Managing Director and spokesperson of the Board of Siemens Stiftung since January 2013.

Before joining the Siemens Stiftung Board of Directors, Nathalie von Siemens worked at Siemens AG in the areas of leadership development, corporate strategy, investor relations and corporate communications. In these positions, she focused on the issue of value-based sustainable corporate development.

Earlier, Nathalie von Siemens worked in the academic sector. Her research covered, among other things, moral philosophy and business ethics. She earned her doctorate in 2004 with a dissertation about the meaning of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.

Dr. Nathalie von Siemens is a member of the supervisory boards of Siemens AG, Siemens Healthcare GmbH and Messer Group GmbH.

Florian Seubert is a partner and co-founder of Maxburg Capital Partners an investment management company focusing on the German-speaking markets.

Before setting up Maxburg Florian Seubert co-founded zooplus AG, an S-DAX publicly listed online retailer. Between 1999 and 2013 and whilst serving as CFO, zooplus developed from a 4-person start-up to European market leader with a presence in more than 20 countries. Prior to that, Florian worked for JPMorgan Securities in London and New York.

He holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and has been an active investor in the German small cap scene since the late 1990s.

Jeroen is a co-founder and Managing Partner at CATALPA GmbH & Co. KG, a single-family office focused on investments in private equity, venture capital and real estate since 2012.

Prior to setting up the CATALPA Family office, Jeroen was an Executive Director at E. Breuninger GmbH. & Co., where he developed and successfully launched the company’s e-commerce business.

Before his return back to Germany in 2007, Jeroen co-founded LLM, Inc. in 2002 in San Antonio, TX, a leading legal technology solutions provider for large corporate litigation. He was acting COO & CFO from 2002 – 2007.

Jeroen is Chairman of the Board at E. Breuninger GmbH & Co. and Member of the Board at LLM, Inc.