Our Ambassadors

Mei Lin Fung

A Singaporean in Silicon Valley has a pioneering track record as a visionary leader at the intersection of technology, finance, and people-centered innovation. Mei Lin began her career as a computer programmer and operations research analyst at Shell and then joined Intel. There, she learned to apply the principles of Andy Grove’s “High-performance Management” and “Only the Paranoid Survive” first as a financial analyst and customer marketing engineer at Intel’s Distribution Channel. She brought this grounded experience to Oracle, as one of the 2-person team who designed the proto-CRM system OASIS — laying the groundwork for what has become the largest software category today: Customer Relationship Management used in all industries, and especially banking.

She is one of the rare individuals who studied under the founding architects of modern finance—Fisher Black, Robert Merton, and Franco Modigliani—while at MIT and went on to apply those lessons to real-world transformation. As Socio-Technical Lead for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Federal Health Futures initiative, she helped shape the strategic digital modernization of public health systems.

Mei Lin has worked with two of the fathers of the Internet—Douglas Engelbart, who invented the graphical user interface, and Vint Cerf, who co-designed TCP/IP protocols. She co-founded the People-Centered Internet and serves as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Sustainability and co-chairs the IEEE 2026 World Technology Summit. She is also a founding advisor to GovStack, the GIZ-funded ITU initiative to accelerate Digital Public Infrastructure globally. She has published policy briefs for the German, Japan, Italian and Canadian G7 Think7 process. As ACM’s Delegate to the United Nations Financing for Development process, she is now helping lead regional and global efforts to align digital tools, open finance, and AI with MSME growth, inclusion, and long-term resilience.

Jürgen Schulze

Jürgen Schulze moved from his studies in social education to the information technology industry in 1984. He initially worked there as the author of several IT reference books, then in various international management and leadership positions in channel/product marketing, business development, alliance management and strategic sales management.

Since 2001, he has worked primarily in the field of information security, where he combined a natural understanding of language with the requirements of online marketing and cyber security as early as 2010. During his time at PwC Germany, he published the Point of View “Kann Cyber Sicherheit glücklich machen?” under their logo together with bestselling author Maike van den Boom. His book “ChatGPT - The Perfect Promise 2” is currently available in stores.

Martha Kunicki

Martha Kunicki successfully defended her PhD in Philosophy on AI and Co-Creativity and now a PostDoc Research Scholar at ECE Electrical Computer Engineering at Princeton University. She founded her own company in Germany 10 years ago, as a CEO and director of a theater in Hamburg, and producer of German theater production premieres, such as the award-winning theater play “The Turing Machine” about the true story of Alan Turing, as the father of AI, with his famous paper “Can Machines Think?”.

Martha’s PhD dissertation is a multidisciplinary research project bringing together the arts and humanities, social sciences, and computer engineering, and philosophy, exploring how AI can be creative and how we can be co-creative with AI in science, arts, music, theater, by illustrating the collective co-creativity of humans and AI, and how AI can enhance our creativity. As a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Engineering at Princeton, Martha is working on developing a novel AI technology for visualizing our thoughts from EEG-to-text-to-image-to-video in real-time and explores the Co-Creativity of AI and humans at the intersection of philosophy, electrical computer engineering, and entrepreneurship, at Princeton University

Dr. Matthias Geurts

Dr. Matthias Geurts is a lawyer and partner at Schalast LAW TAX in Frankfurt am Main, where he works in the Banking & Finance and Tax practice groups. He specialises in the design of capital investment products, in particular investment funds, and advises providers and investors on tax, finance and supervisory law.

Dr. Matthias Geurts is a lecturer at the University of Hamburg for the Master of International Taxation programme and at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and the accadis University of Applied Sciences. He has made a name for himself through numerous publications, including as editor of an income tax commentary (Frotscher/Geurts) and a foreign tax commentary (Fuhrmann/Geurts/Nientimp/Wilmanns), as an author in commentaries on the Capital Investment Act (KAGB), Income Tax Act (EStG), Corporation Tax Act (KStG), Investment Tax Act (InvStG) and in the Handbook of Tax-Optimised Corporate Finance.

Stephan Goericke

Stephan Goericke is an entrepreneur, global networker and publicist - with a clear stance on the social responsibility of business. With over 20 years of international experience, he combines global perspectives with regional commitment. His roots in East Germany shape his ambition to actively shape change and drive forward critical debates.

Dr. Sree Ganesh Thottempudi

Dr. Sree Ganesh Thottempudi is a faculty member specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, possessing 15 years of teaching and research experience in international research and development organizations. His expertise lies in the development of natural language processing tools for under-resourced languages, as well as in applying digital humanities to ancient heritage and culture. He has worked on the development of South African sign-to-speech and speech-to-sign translation tools prior to undertaking his academic teaching and research career.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Thottempudi has held positions with notable organizations, including Red Hat Software Services and Microsoft (India) Corporation, as well as DAASI International GmbH, within the IT services sector. He has led four European Union projects and contributed to two South African government initiatives focused on digital infrastructure development, specifically with SADILAR. Furthermore, he has participated in research and development projects with Tesla, TeamViewer, and Bosch.

Dr. Thorsten Voß

Dr Thorsten Voß is a lawyer and partner at Schalast LAW TAX in Frankfurt am Main. He specialises in banking supervision, investment and securities trading law as well as digital law. He worked at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, BaFin) before embarking on his legal career.

In addition to other teaching assignments, he is a lecturer in the specialist lawyer training course for banking and capital market law (Dozent im Fachanwaltslehrgang für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht) and has numerous specialist publications to his name, including as editor of a trilogy of commentaries on capital markets law (on Securities Prospectus Law, the Securities Trading Act and the Sales Prospectus Act, all published by C.H. Beck) and as founding editor of the Journal for Digital Economy Law (Zeitschrift für das Recht der digitalin Wirtschaft, ZdiW), published by Wolters Kluwer Germany).