Michael Gebert

Head of the Board of the CrowdSourcing Association and member of the European Crowdfunding Stakeholder Forum at European Commission.

Michael holds a PhD researching CrowdSourcing and Risk Management.

Michael calls himself a innovation-driven entrepreneur and believer. His current focus to understand the risks and chances of crowd-based phenomenas, like CrowdSourcing, CrowdInnovation and CrowdFunding. His aim is to manage the impact of disruption to existing businesses caused by these topics for SMEs and established industry players. Michael is founding board member of the CrowdSourcing Association and the German CrowdFunding Network. He serves as adviser for the EU Commission in the CrowdFunding Stakeholder Group in Brussels and a nominated member of the TAB Begleitkreis „Future of Work“ for the German Parliament.

After his studies of economics in Munich, Michael startet his career at LTX in Boston. Two years later he returned to Germany to be an early employee of Compuserve. 1995 he founded his first company Global Login, to consult banks to manage and understand the challenges of the digital transformation. After a successful trade-sale of his first Start-Up he founded AdMaster Networks, a european digital advertising powerhouse and sold the entity to be part of a joint entity named ArboMedia, going public at the Neuen Markt 2001. Michael was 2002 one of the early experts to understand the implication of wireless broadband ( WLAN ) for the digital transformation and served as VP for ComFone in Berne, a joint venture of Swisscom and Vodafone to established WLAN as part of a serviced integrated product portfolio for tear one mobile operators around the world. In that time he founded and established the Wireless Broad Awards - a bi-annual award show in Dubai and London - that should later be integrated into the WBA Allliance, the world´s largest alliance of WLAN operators.