The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Christian Stein, CEO, Ascenion
Christian Stein has been the CEO of Ascenion – the tech transfer arm of research institutes Helmholtz and Leibniz Associations as well as university hospital Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Hannover Medical School – since 2009.
He joined Ascenion from Fraunhofer Patent Centre for German Research, where he led the project management department, and has continuously made an impact far beyond his immediate surroundings.
He is chairman of Ascenion portfolio company MGC Foundation, which markets transgenic mice.
Stein was a board member of the Association of Technology Transfer Professionals from 2012 until 2015, when he became a member of the international strategy committee of the Association of University Technology Managers.
From 2014 to May 2016 he was president of ASTP-Proton, the European association of knowledge and technology transfer professionals. And since November 2016 he has been a member of the executive board of TechnologieAllianz, which represents more than 200 institutes uniting patent marketing agencies and technology transfer agencies.
