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2021


Dragalina Ogor

Dragalina Ogor did her bachelor studies of economics at the University of Mannheim. During her first year, she became interested in the innovative model and disruptive power that Startups have. Wanting to find out more about the Startup Ecosystem in the area, she filled in the position of student assistant in July 2020. At MCEI she was responsible for the coordination of the Startup Lounge and maintained an open line of communication with Startups and Student Initiatives associated with MCEI. Some other tasks included supporting the Chair team in research, teaching, and operations. This also included the improvement of teaching materials as well as concrete support for current research projects.

2020


Dr. Jan Zybura
Jan Zybura
Jan Zybura

Jan leads the MCEI initiatives and team at the University of Mannheim and, in his dual role, is part of the ifm Entrepreneurship Team (ENT) since summer 2011. Jan was involved in Entrepreneurship teaching and restructuring the teaching towards more practical/ action-oriented formats at the Chair of SME Research and Entrepreneurship from his first day in office onwards. Jan has co-founded MCEI in 2012-2013 and been in charge of its further development since. Jan believes in a serendipitous startup culture of paying it forward and mutual learning. He loves startups with lots of scalability and his vision is a flourishing Startup Ecosystem around the University of Mannheim. Send an e-mail if you have questions or meet Jan at the Startup Lounges or in class (MAN 453, MAN 630, MAN 631, MAN 632, MAN 633).

Academic and industry background: Jan has started his doctoral research as a fellow at the Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim in fall 2010. He is a management scholar and holds a B.Sc. in Economics (2008) and a M.Sc. in International Business, Business Intelligence (2010) from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Jan has obtained his doctorate in management from the University of Mannheim (2016). Alongside his studies, Jan has gained some practical insights into start-up marketing, strategic restructuring, and strategic procurement. In spring 2014, Jan has spent half a year as a visiting student researcher at SCANCOR, Stanford University. For more information on his research, please visit Jan's research profile. For all other CV-relevant information, please visit Jan's LinkedIn (Englisch version) or XING (German version) profile.


Maria Khodaeva
Maria Khodaeva
Maria Khodaeva

Maria holds a Bachelor degree in Management, which she obtained at the Graduate School of Management, Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. As an undergraduate, she was actively involved in student rights protection, charity, events organization, and development of several startups. During her exchange semester at Trinity College Dublin Maria was studying the social aspect of entrepreneurship and conducted a consultancy project for a startup, which aimed to help visually impaired people. She is currently pursuing a Master in Management degree at the University of Mannheim.

At MCEI Maria is responsible for planning and conducting of events. If you want to present your awesome ideas to investors, or have founded your own startup and will be glad to share your success story, just drop her an email!


Marta Riva
Marta Riva
Marta Riva

Marta holds a Bachelor degree in International Science and European Institutions from the University of Milan. Also in Milan, she completed a Master degree in Economics and Political Science in which she focused most on quantitative research. Right now she is enrolled in the Faculty of Political Science at the University Mannheim where she is studying statistics and informatics. At MCEI Marta is responsible for Business Intelligence. She closly works together with the rest of the team to implement and improve the information flow between Startups and MCEI.

If you are interested in contacting Marta, please send an e-mail and she will get back to you as soon as possible.

2019


Ndivhuho Tshikovhi

Ndivhuho, before joining the MCEI team has been a guest researcher at the institut für mittelstandsforschung 2018-2019. He completed his undergraduate degree in human resources management 2008-2011. After that, he went on to do a magister in entrepreneurship focusing his thesis on entrepreneurship education at the Tshwane University of Technology 2012-2013. He then went for a Ph.D. in social and political sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium focusing his thesis on public policy and entrepreneurship 2014-2019. He also visited Fudan University, China in 2016. Parallel to his studies, he worked as a research assistant, art business incubation coordinator, and also taught entrepreneurship skills and business management, as well as being a project leader for SIFE TUT (now ENACTUS TUT) in South Africa.


Rukshana Akhter
Rukshana Akhter
Rukshana Akhter

Rukshana is currently looking after the content management system for MCEI, and as part of this role her responsibilities include publication of content for the website and for other social media channels related to MCEI, providing support in startup related reports and also putting up events for MCEI.

Besides her current role at MCEI, Rukshana is currently pursuing the Mannheim Master in Management program at the University of Mannheim. Prior to coming to Germany to pursue her Master’s, she had gained working experience in corporate banking, retail banking as well as in the FMCG sector. She holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka in Bangladesh.

If you would like to get in touch with her, just drop her an email and she will get back to you shortly.


Philipp Karich
Philipp Karich
Philipp Karich

Philipp graduated from Maastricht University with a B.Sc. in International Business. Therein, his primary focus was on Information Systems. After having finished his Bachelor’s degree, he completed two internships in the automotive industry and in a Big Four consulting company in Southern Germany. Currently, Philipp is working towards his Master’s degree, as he is enrolled in the Mannheim Master in Management. He has lived in several countries, inside and outside of Europe. In his free time, he likes to play tennis and play the guitar.

Please feel free to contact Philipp via Email.

2018


Kai Bruchmüller
Kai Bruchmüller
Kai Bruchmüller

Kai holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Mannheim and finnished his MMM program in Mannheim with focus on entrepreneurship. During his studies in Mannheim and during his semester abroad, Kai focused his studies on the startup world. Next to his academic focus on entrepreneurship, Kai co-organized the Startup Homecoming 2014 and organized several Startup related events during his activities for the bdvb Hochschulgruppe Mannheim.

At MCEI Kai was responsible for partner and Startup relations. If you want to get in contact with him, find him on LinkedIn


Elisabeth Gourlin
Elisabeth Gourlin
Elisabeth Gourlin

Elisabeth studied French and German law in the joint Bachelor program of the University of Potsdam and the University of Nanterre, near Paris. During her time in Potsdam, she was able to complete a one year course about the American Legal System. During her time at MCEI, she was a Master of Laws student at the University of Mannheim, with speciality in human resources. Her studies allow her to follow her interest for law as well as to further grow her expertise in the startup world. Among her responsibilities were MCEI PR - so the chances of reading one of Elisabeth's articles on MCEI about events, success stories, MCEI partnes and much more are fairly high.

 

2017 


Dr. Dennis Lips
Dr. Dennis Lips
Dr. Dennis Lips

Dennis co-founded MCEI in 2012-2013 and is now shaping the future of real estate with his startup Anyon. For more information, go to Dennis' LinkedIn Profile or his ifm Alumni Profile. Dennis is still of great support to MCEI - meet him as judge in Pitch Presentations, at the MCEI Seed Award, as a sparring partner in our Startup Sparring scheme or as Design Thinking coach in MAN 631.

  


Andrew Isaak, MBA
Andrew Isaak
Andrew Isaak

Andrew supported MCEI from Fall 2016 to February 2017 and then moved to the ifm Team Neue Selbständigkeit. For more information, go to Andrew's ifm Profileor send him an e-mail. Andrew was also involved in teaching MAN 770.

  

2016


Dr. Daniela Ernestus, MBA
Daniela Ernestus
Daniela Ernestus

Daniela co-founded MCEI in 2012-2013 and the Mannheim Entrepreneurship Club. For more information, go to Daniela's LinkedIn Profile or her ifm Alumni Profile.

  


Robert Bölkow
Robert Bölkow
Robert Bölkow

Robert was content and event manager at MCEI from summer 2014 to 2015. Robert conducted an MCEI Inside the Venture Master Thesis at Miameed and then followed a full time job offer at the Cologne- and Berlin based startup MiaMed. You can connect via LinkedIn.

 

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