Supervisory Board

Prof. Dr. Volker Gruhn (born in 1963) was a co-founder of adesso AG in 1997 and is now the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board. He is Head of the Software Engineering Department at University of Duisburg-Essen, where his main research focuses on mobile applications. Volker Gruhn is the author and co-author of approximately 200 national and international publications and conference contributions.

Prof. Dr. Willibald Folz is the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Münchner Hypothekenbank eG. After studying law and economics before graduating with a major in business administration, Mr. Folz was a division head at the Bavarian Ministry of Finance and the Bavarian State Chancellery. He then held management positions at various banks including the Bayerische Landesbank, at the Deutsch-Skandinavischen Bank AG as a member of the executive board and at Münchner Hypothekenbank eG as speaker of the executive board. From 1990 to 1999, he was the president and chairperson of the executive board of the Genossenschaftsverband Bayern e.V. (Bayern association of co-operatives).

Prof. Dr. Folz teaches at the faculty of economics of the Eichstätt/Ingolstadt Catholic University, specialising in bank law and cooperatives. He is the chairperson of the university council of Bamberg University and the board of trustees of the Academy of Philosophy in Munich.

Dr. Friedrich Wöbking (born in 1950) is a declared expert on information technology and the banks and insurance industries. He was member of the Executive Board at Dresdner Bank AG between 2003 and 2009 and took responsibility for the IT Services and Operations department. Previously, during the 1990s, he was member of the Executive Board at Allianz Versicherungs-AG/Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG and Deutsche Versicherungs-AG where he was head of the Private Customer Business department as well as head of the departments IT and e-Business. Wöbking owns a doctor’s degree in Information Technology and Mathematics and currently runs FW advisory Management Beratung. Above that, he acts as an advisor at Swiss Post Solutions GmbH and is a Senior Advisor at Droege & Comp. Unternehmerberatung.