Rudolf Franz (born 1967) has been one of our shareholders through his venture fund Franz Industriebeteiligungen AG since 2003. Since 2003 he is focusing as Chief Operating Officer on marketing and sales, finance and controlling and administration. In addition, he has held the position of Chief Financial Officer since 2013.
Rudolf Franz studied economics at the University of Augsburg and earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering and management at the Munich University of Applied Science. In 1995 he started his career as an investment manager at Technologieholding VC GmbH where he managed the Munich investment team as a partner of the company two years later. After that Rudolf Franz was the Deputy Managing Director of 3i Group from 2000 to 2002. In this role he was in charge of technology investments in the German-speaking market.