Our Management
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Dr. Raphael Volz is founder and managing director of Volz Innovation GmbH. Raphael has collected more than fifteen years of experience in building successfull IT products and services. Prior to founding the firm, Raphael has managed the team of Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe (FZI) in the largest German internet research project (Theseus). Prior to this assignment, Raphael has worked as a management consultant with Booz & Company and advised clients in various industries on strategic issues in IT and finance. Booz & Company and has awarded his professional work with its 2006 professional excellence award (PEA) for his assignment with a German logistics company. Raphael has studied computer science and Genetics at the universities of Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, two of the leading universities in Germany. He has a strong background in logic and was awarded a PhD with highest distinction for his thesis on “Web ontology reasoning with logic databases” by the University of Karlsruhe in 2004. Along his career Raphael has been awarded various prizes at national and international business plan competitions. |
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Abraham Taherivand is an associate of Volz Innovation GmbH. As an expert on Cloud Computing and Virtualization he advises our clients on all aspects of efficient and modern IT operations. In customer projects but also in individual workshops, Mr. Taherivand furthermore provides Design Thinking, a method of innovation. Mr. Taherivand has 10 years of relevant IT experience in various project areas, particularly in the line of technical customer care and IT operations teams, as well as multidisciplinary and distributed project teams. Mr. Taherivand studied with distinction Information Systems at the Stuttgart Media University and Information Management and Engineering at Karlsruhe University - KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). In addition, Mr. Taherivand studied Design Thinking at the School of Design Thinking (Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam), the first innovation school in europe. |
