Management
A Gaia-X Management Board with six members (Chair, Vice-Chair) and six deputies was elected as the central steering body for the Gaia-X Hub Austria. Contact our Board Members for more specific questions.
Chair
Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Leopold, PhD
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Dr. Mario Drobics
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Vice chair
Mag. Georg Hahn
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Hahn started his professional career at Nixdorf Computer. From 1996 to 2001 he was on the board of Netway Communications AG. At the same time, he was President of the Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) and on the Advisory Board of the Austrian Web Analysis (ÖWA).
In the period from 2002 to 2013, he was first Chief Operating Officer of Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH and later Managing Director of Raiffeisen Solution GmbH.
Since 2014, Hahn has been co-owner of Business Design OG and Secretary General of OSJBIG Austria since 2018.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lindstaedt
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Stefanie received her Habilitation from TU Graz, her M.S. and Ph.D. (all in Computer Science) from the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA). She has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences, accompanying 6 habilitations and over 24 dissertations.
Dr. Tobias Höllwarth
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Dipl.-Ing. Roland Sommer, MBA
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He holds degrees from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences and the University of London. Sommer started his professional career at Technologie-Impulse Gesellschaft (now part of FFG), was responsible for research and innovation policy at the Federation of Austrian Industries and then Director of Public Affairs at AVL.
Michael Fälbl
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Fälbl's area of responsibility includes cooperation with important global and European technology developments and the derivation of implications for Austrian industry. Cross-company data exchange and the associated initiatives (especially Gaia-X) are a focus of the Industry 4.0 platform.
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Tauber
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He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology and an MBA from LIMAK Austrian Business School. He also completed postgraduate training, for example at the Stanford Graduate School for Business.
Tauber started his professional career in the innovation department of Infineon Technologies Austria in the development of digital hardware and software. From 2017, he went through a management graduate programme in various key positions at the Kapsch Group in Austria and the USA. During his studies, he was also involved in the founding phase of a prop tech to revolutionise the marketing and search of real estate.
DI (FH) Gerald Steiner, MBA
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Ing. Brigitte Lutz, MSc
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In her professional career, she has been an IT expert for various areas, project manager, senior process manager (SPcM) and e-government expert. She is the Data Governance Coordinator for the City of Vienna, responsible for coordinating the Open Government Competence Centre Vienna and the Digital Twin of the City of Vienna. Other areas of responsibility include data analytics, document management and e-government building blocks and services.
Brigitte Lutz is a founding member and currently spokesperson for Cooperation Open Government Data (OGD) Austria and is responsible for national and international cooperation in this area.
Mag. Annette Trawnicek
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Annette Trawnicek holds a Master's degree in Economics from WU Vienna and a specialisation in Marketing from Universitá Commerciale Bocconi, Milan. With HP/HPE since 2004, she has held various positions in CEE and Austria in the areas of sales management, business development, consulting and business management.
