Advisory Board

The advisory board supports the project members Institute for Applied Informatics e.V. and StackFuel GmbH in the implementation of the project and provides feedback on ongoing developments.

The members of the advisory board are experts and decision-makers in the field of digitalisation, IT and human resources development. They all bring expertise and a wide range of experience around digital topics and thus support the platform.

Mohanna Azarmandi

Chief Learning Officer


Cariad SE

Nicole Büttner

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Merantix Momentum GmbH

Dr. Julia Freudenberg

Chief Executive Officer

Hacker School gGmbH

Nicole Gerhardt

Chief Human
Resources Officer

Telefónica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG

Daniel Krupka

Chief Executive Officer

Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)

Dr. Michael
Müller-Wünsch

Chief Information Officer

Otto GmbH & Co KG

Claudia Pohlink


Chief Expert Data


Deutsche Bahn AG

Jonas Rashedi


Chief Data Officer


FUNKE Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA

Kristian Schalter


Director Strategy & Digital Transformation

Confederation of German Employers’ Associations e.V.

Carsten Trappe


Policy Officer
Division 421 – Research Data

Federal Ministry of Education and Research


Tasks and objectives

  • Mutual exchange with the project team in six-monthly meetings
  • Conceptual and practical participation in platform development
  • Feedback on the platform prototype, as well as data tools and tools on the platform
  • Steering the knowledge transfer for a demand-oriented and targeted development of the platform
  • Ensuring the practical relevance and applicability of the platform
  • Collection and discussion of interesting and relevant data sets and use cases that can be offered on the platform and used for so-called “data competitions”.
  • Development of a concept for the certification and standardisation of data competence
  • Development of a Germany-wide and socially recognised seal of quality for mapping data competence