Your support with many years of expertise

Mentors and Coaches

Our mentors and coaches support the start-up teams with their many years of expertise in science and practice in the context of individual and needs-based consultation appointments and workshops.

Our mentors: Professors at the HWR Berlin

Our mentors support the start-up teams with their many years of expertise in science and practice in the context of individual and needs-based mentoring appointments.

Contact is initially made via the Startup Incubator Berlin, which is happy to put interested teams in touch with the right mentors.

Prof. Dr. Sven Ripsas

Professor for Entrepreneurship

Focus areas:

Business model innovation with Canvas / Cockpit
Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
Startup Financing

Prof. Dr. Ingo Fischer

Professur forGeneral business administration, esp. HR Mgmt.

Focus areas:

Human Resources
Change Management
Employee and Organisationn Development

Prof. Dr. Andrea Rumler

Professor of Marketing

Focus areas:

Start-up marketing
Business model development
Strategic Marketing
Online Marketing and Social Media

Prof. Dr. Martin Užik

Professor for Operational Financing and Investment Policy

Focus areas:

Evaluation of companies and company shares
Opening new markets in Eastern Europe
Strategic comparative and planning calculations

Prof. Dr. Carsten Baumgarth

Professor for Marketing, especially Brand Management

Focus areas:

B2B-Marketing and B2B-Brand-Management
Culture Marketing and Culture Brand Management
Brand Management

Prof. Dr. Birgit Felden

Professor for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Focus areas:

Family Business
Small and Medium-sized enterprises
Company succession
Company evaluation and exit strategies

Prof. Dr. Thomas Gruber

Professor for Internal Accounting / Controlling

Focus areas:

Value-oriented Company Management
Controlling and Reporting
International Accounting

Prof. Dr. Frank Habermann

Professor for General Business Management Theory, especially Business Process Management

Focus areas:

Project Management
Change Management
Business Process Management
Organisational Learning

Prof. Dr. Roland Müller

Professor for Business Computer Science

Focus areas:

Big Data
Data Mining
Business Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Avo Schönbohm

Professor for General Business Administration and Controlling

Focus areas:

Strategic Planning
Performance Management
Enterprise Gamification

Prof. Dr. Tobias Braun

Professor of Human Resources and Organisation

Focus areas:

Company control with goals
Organisational Management and Design
Organisational and Corporate Culture Development

Prof. Dr. Katrin Böttcher

Professor for International Human Resources

Focus areas:

Global Talent Management
Executive Management Development
Employability

Prof. Dr. Regina Baumgärtner

Professorship for tourism, business administration and marketing

Focus areas:

Tourism
- Innovations
- Digitalization
- Internationalization
- Sustainability
Marketing

Prof. Dr. Martina Eberl

Professor for General Business Administration, especially Management and Organisation

Focus areas:

Change Management
Leadership Development
Implementation of Strategies

Prof. Dr. Thomas Afflerbach

Professor for General Business Administration, especially Service Management

User-centric Innovation Management (Service Design and Design Thinking)
Service Marketing and Service Operations
Collaborative work in (virtual) teams

Prof. Dr. Susanne Meyer

Professor for commercial law

Focus areas:

commercial law
Insolvency law
General contract law
Corporate law

Prof. Dr. Peter Ries

Professor of Civil Law

Focus areas:

Commercial and corporate law
International corporate law

Our coaches: experts at SIB

Für spezifische Fragen rund um dein Gründungsvorhaben, stehen dir im Startup Incubator Berlin eine Reihe von Expert*innen und Coaches zur Verfügung.

Einen individuellen Coachingtermin kannst du ganz einfach per E-Mail oder telefonisch vereinbaren. Die meisten unserer Coaches bieten außerdem regelmäßige Workshops an.

Felix Piela

Konstruktiv | Ingenieurbro für Produktentwicklung

Coach for:

CAD construction
3D-Print
Manufacturing process
agile hardware development

as well as:

Electronics development
PCB layout
embedded Software

Dr. Arndt Schwaiger

Arndt Schwaiger

Coach for:

Sharpening and optimization of the business model
Lean Startup / Lean Analytics
Key figure-based financial planning
financing

Patrick Geißler

Audalis

Coach for:

Corporate law
(VC) participation agreements
Incorporation/transformation
Terms & Conditions contract law

Patrick Straßer, Dipl.-Kfm.

WSK Steuerberater

Coach for:

Taxes
Accounting

Tim Frank

Coach for:

Insurance for startups
Insurance for founders

Karime Mimoun

Coach for:

Financing strategies for startups
Growth and scaling strategies
Business modeling and price analysis
Pitch deck optimization
Definition and identification of investors

Nicole Röttger

Apiarista

Coach for:

Innovationsmanagement (Design Thinking, Design Sprints)
Executive and team coaching
Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS)
Business model development

Tal Uscher

Apiarista

Coach for:

Innovationsmanagement (Design Thinking, Design Sprints)
Executive and team coaching
Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS)
Business model development

Kerstin Buschbeck

Coaching Hub Berlin

Coach for:

Team building (values, vision, trust)
Organizational development (team expansion, team changes)
Clarification of the roles including the topics: expectation management, delegation, decisions, effectiveness
Team communication (internal & external)
Mediation (solving conflicts)
Leadership and competency development
Corporate culture development

Armand Lidtke

Armand Lidkte

Coach for:

Brand Building
Content Marketing
Creating Ads / Campaigning

Hilmar Nicolay

Coach für:

Business model development
Marketing and Sales
Internationalization
Product Development / SaaS, PaaS
Lean Startup / Pitch Deck / Business Plan

Will Fischer

Coach for:

Prototyping
Product strategy, manufacturing design
Hardware and mechanical Engineering