Oliver Grün (born 13 February 1969, in

Mülheim an der Ruhr Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr (, ; ; ) and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home ...

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) is a German

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of GRÜN Software AG in

Aachen Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. Aachen is locat ...

, since 2015 President of European Digital SME Alliance and President of the Federal Association of IT-SMEs of Germany (BITMI), the only information technology industry association which exclusively represents the interests of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany. Since 2013 he is member of the Council of Advisors on Digital Economy at the

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, which gives advice on issues concerning the digital economy.

Life

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

University, he obtained a diploma in engineering from the RWTH Aachen University in 2001. In 2005, he graduated with a

DPhil A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in commercial information technology from the

Comenius University Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

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and in 2013 he graduated with a second DPhil lectureship. Even since he began his studies in 1989, Oliver Grün has founded a software company in 1989, today called GRÜN Software AG. The group of companies employs more than 150 employees and has offices in Aachen, Bratislava,

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...

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and

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. It specialises in creating business software for member organizations, non-profit organisations, education providers and

time management Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities—especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. Time management involves demands relating to work, social ...

. As CEO and president, Oliver Grün has led with the development of Bundesverband IT-Mittelstand (BITMi) in 2010. The medium-sized IT company represents the interests of medium-sized IT companies. In Computerwoche's latest list of the 100 most important German IT personalities in 2011, Oliver Grün ranked 68th. In 2016, the editorial board of the magazine Politics & Communication placed Oliver Grün on the list of the 100 most important actors in digitization in Germany. Oliver Grün is a member of the task group "Digital Economy in Germany" at the National IT Summit of the

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. Since 2013, Oliver Grün is principal member of the IT advisory board "Young Digital Economy" of the Federal Government, residing in the Federal Ministry of Economics. In addition, he has been president of European Digital SME Alliance since 2015. Since 2019 he has been a member of the steering committee of the German Initiative "IT security in the economy of the BMWi" Since 2014 he has also been a member of the Federal Economic Senate of the Federal Association Medium-Sized Enterprises. In 2016 he founded the digitalHUB Aachen e.V., whose CEO he is to this day. In 2016 he founded the "digitalHUB Aachen eV," whose CEO he is still today. In 2017 Oliver Grün was appointed by the European Commission to the board of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. Grün lives in

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, is married and has three children.

Other activities and honorary positions

* Member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Society for computer science in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

(since 2016) *Member of the Senate of the German Industrial Research Association

Konrad Zuse Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; ; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, List of pioneers in computer science, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programm ...

e.V. (since 2015) *Jury member of the IT Innovation Award of Initiative Mittelstand (Since 2008) * Founding shareholder and advisor of the non-profit organisation gut.org AG, operator of the Internet charity betterplace.org (since 2009)Betterplace.org, Shareholder
retrieved 29 June 2015 * Member of the Advisory Council for Education and Further Education of the Society for Computer Science (since 2013) * Juror of "Germany's Digital Minds" the Society for Computer Science, an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education, Berlin (since 2014)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grun, Oliver 1969 births Living people Businesspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia People from Mülheim RWTH Aachen University alumni