Co-Initiator of the Leonardo-European Corporate Learning Award
Founder and CEO of HRM Research Institute and børding Messe AG, organizing tradeshows e.g. for Human Resources Management, Online Marketing, occupational health and safety, travel- and event-management in Switzerland, Austria and Germany.
Publisher of "personal manager", the magazine for HR professionals and "Miss Moneypenny" the Swiss office management magazine.
Founder of Germany's largest social networking portal for HR professionals, HRM.de as well as HRM.ch and HRM.at
Founder and former CEO of "spring Messe Management" in Mannheim
Günther M. Szogs
Secretary of the Advisory Board of the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award
Founding member of "The New Club of Paris"
Longtime expertise as head of skill- and knowledge management in major banks
Speaker of knowledge-experts association
Member of scientific advisory board for Innovation for the German Federal Government
Prof. Dr. Winfried Sommer
former scientific director for congresses of HR professionals: PLE Professional Learning Europe, SeLC Swiss eLearning Conference and AeLC Austrian eLearning Conference
Co-initiator of the "Executive Forum", an event for HR board members and Chief Learning Officers in cohesion with the Leonardo Award presentation
Co-initiator with Prof. Dr. Uwe Beck of the Learntec in Karlsruhe
Emeritus Professor for Sociology and Political Sciences at the Universities of Landau, Mainz, Esslingen and Karlsruhe
The Steering Committee