
JURY
For The Spark 2022 and the Female Founder Award 2022, we have once again put together a top-class jury that will use their expertise to select the winners. The jury meeting will take place on September 12th.

Fabian billing
Head of McKinsey Germany

Sebastian Matthes
Editor-in-chief Handelsblatt

Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm
Economist, Professor of Economics and Chair of Economics, in particular Economic Theory at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of the Scientific Management of the Energy Campus Nuremberg (EnCN), Director of the Laboratory for Experimental Research Nuremberg (LERN)

Thomas Grübler
The Spark 2021 Start-up Winner, CEO & Co-founder OroraTech

Kai Hankeln
CEO Asklepios Kliniken GmbH & Co. KG aA

Katharina Jünger
The Spark 2021 Female Founder, Co-Founder TeleClinic

Barbara Kux
Co-Chairwoman of the
Board of Directors Firmenich SA and Supervisory Board member of Grosvenor Group, Henkel und Pargesa Holding

Sierk Pötting
COO BioNTech

Peer Schatz
Managing Director of PS Capital Management GmbH, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Centogene N.V., Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Resolve Biosciences GmbH and Member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens Healthineers AG

Betül Susamis Unaran
Chief Strategy and Digital Officer, Executive Board Member Zur Rose Group
NOMINATION COMMITTEE
In the 2022 nomination phase, external subject experts, the Handelsblatt editorial team and a representative from McKinsey will evaluate the applications. Taking into account the specific The Spark evaluation criteria, the finalists of The Spark Award are determined by the nomination committee from all applications.
The experts for the 2022 nominations are:

Prof. dr. Michael Dowling
Professor for Innovation and Technology Management, University of Regensburg and Chairman of the Board of the Münchener Kreis

Hans-Jürgen Jakobs
Senior Editor Handelsblatt

Prof. dr. habil. Alois Knoll
Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time Systems

Katharina Kreitz
Co-Founder Vectoflow GmbH

Stefan Biesdorf
Partner McKinsey & Company

Dr. Stephan Rohr
Founder & Co-CEO TWAICE