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Personal Profile Dr. Fritz Audebert

After his primary school years in Eggenfelden, Dr. Fritz Audebert attended the Kurfürst-Maximilian Gymnasium in Burghausen and then trained as a wholesale and foreign trade merchant at Pollozek in Pfarrkirchen. After completing his bachelor’s, he studied administrative economics at the Fachhochschule Hof, after which Audebert worked as office manager at the Simbach forestry office. Inspired by intercultural differences through assignments abroad as a project manager in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Brazil, Audebert was one of the first to study language, economic and cultural studies at the University of Passau and then went to Russia for a year as an employee of a German company. After returning to the University of Passau, where he worked as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Klaus Dirscherl from 1996 to 1999, Audebert founded the kuwi netzwerk international e.V. in 1995, which has since become the largest alumni association of a single degree program. He was also involved as coordinator of the study program Languages, Economic and Cultural Studies. After completing his doctorate on the subject of “The Time Factor in International Television Advertising”, he founded ICUnet.AG in 2001 and has been its CEO ever since. He is also chairman of “Impulse für Passau e.V.”, the “Neuburger Gesprächskreis” at the University of Passau, supervisory board member of Caritas für Stadt und Landkreis Passau e.V., advisory board member of the AOK management in Passau and board member of the AOK Bayern. Dr. Audebert is also ambassador of Lower Bavaria, initiator of the annual congress #rethinkeurope and member of juries of several business plan competitions.

Personal Profile Samuel Audebert

Samuel Audebert is Vice President Global Innovation. Together with his team, he manages all global innovation projects – from ideation to market launch. The focus is on systemic and integral organizational consulting, learning & development, data mining and digitization.

He has been supporting icunet for more than 7 years in building up the consulting methodology and developing digital tools and apps.

Samuel Audebert studied economics at the Free University of Berlin alongside years of international experience in Australia.

As founder and partner of a successful marketing consultancy, he manages the marketing and PR department of icunet in addition to the innovation incubator. He holds a Micro Master degree in Design Thinking from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has many years of experience in UX/UI design.

Personal Profile Martin Schwarz

Martin Schwarz ist Head of Finance der ICUnet Group. Er ist verantwortlich für die strategische Planung und operative Umsetzung aller Finanz- und Controlling-Prozesse der Firmengruppe. Gemeinsam mit seinem Team steuert er das Gesamtbudget, die steuerlichen Verpflichtungen und die Unternehmensbuchhaltung der gesamten Organisation und der Tochtergesellschaften. Er begleitet das Unternehmen seit Juli 2020.

Martin Schwarz verfügt über umfassende Management-Erfahrung in diversen Branchen u.a. als kaufmännischer Leiter und Geschäftsführer. Mit seinem ganzheitlichen Verständnis für sämtliche für die Unternehmensführung relevanten operativen und strategischen Themenbereiche ergänzt er das Management-Team der ICUnet. Neben einer klassischen Ausbildung zum Industriekaufmann, einer Fortbildung zum Industriefachwirt hat Herr Schwarz einen Master of Science im Bereich Einkauf & Supply-Chain-Management.

Personal Profile Sascha Meißner

Sascha Meißner führt gemeinsam mit Frau Stephanie Reckmann (VP Operations) die Geschäfte der ICU Global Mobility GmbH. Als Mitglied des Managements und in seiner Position als Vice President Sales ist er verantwortlich für alle Vertriebs- und Marketingmaßnahmen in Europa und führt ein multinationales und interdisziplinäres Team bestehend aus Vertriebsexperten und Marketingspezialisten. Sein oberstes Ziel ist es dabei die Kommunikation, Prozesse und digitalen Anwendungen konsequent auf die Bedürfnisse des Kunden auszurichten. Der kundenzentrierte Ansatz ist bei der icunet.group unternehmensweit ausgerollt und über alle Unternehmensbereiche hinweg verknüpft.

Herr Meißner begleitet das Unternehmen bereits seit 2012. Angefangen als Projektmanager, hielt er schon unterschiedlichste Positionen inne, darunter auch interimistischer Geschäftsführer Shanghai. Des Weiteren begleitete Herr Meißner in den letzten Jahren große, internationale Implementierungs- und Global Mobility Transformationsprojekte bei Großkunden und Kunden des Mittelstandes.

Vor seiner beruflichen Karriere absolvierte 2007 ein Masterstudium der Arbeits- und Organisationssoziologie, sowie der Erziehungswissenschaften mit dem Schwerpunkt pädagogische Psychologie an der Universität Stuttgart. Im Jahr 2013 schloss er zudem erfolgreich sein internationales MBA-Studium an der Shanghai Jiao Tong University ab.
Darüber hinaus ist Herr Meißner geprüfter Organisationscoach.

Personal Profile Marinda Seisenberger

Marinda Seisenberger, born in South Africa, is head of the human resources department for the ICUnet Group. As a member of the management team and true to her motto “A company’s employees are its greatest asset”, Ms. Seisenberger and her team are responsible for all personnel matters in Germany and abroad. Ms. Seisenberger has been with the company since 2010, initially as an external trainer, consultant and business coach. After she hung up her entrepreneur gloves and closed her school for language and intercultural training after 14 years, Ms. Seisenberger continued coaching, training and consulting with the company and after 18 months took over the leading role of the team of trainers, coaches and consultants for ICUnet.

Ms. Seisenberger holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Communication and is a trained high school teacher. She also holds several degrees as a coach, is a certified public relations specialist and Certified Professional Speaker (GSA). Ms. Seisenberger is the author of several publications, including “Expat the Easy Way – Live and Work Successfully wherever you are” and “Vielfältig, voraus, vernetzt: The new insurance world”.

Personal Profile Mathias Taubert

Mathias Taubert is responsible for Training & Human Resources Development and Business Consulting within icunet. His mission is to support people in developing their diversity and potential in a changing work environment. For this purpose Mathias and his team of 20 employees develop customized solutions in the field of personnel development and consulting. With the systemic-integral methodology, he has been in charge of developing an innovative approach that supports the cultural change in companies in a targeted manner.

Mathias himself has been working for icunet as a trainer and consultant since 2004 and was responsible for setting up the icunet office in Frankfurt. In the meantime, he was sales manager and strategic buyer for bio raw materials in South America and Germany for several years before taking over the management of Business Consulting GmbH in 2018.

Mathias studied languages, business and cultural studies in Passau and speaks fluent English, Spanish and French in addition to his native German.

Personal Profile Stephanie Reckmann

Stephanie Reckmann heads the Global Mobility Business Unit of icunet with a team of 45 employees. Her focus is on operational excellence, digitalization and global mobility strategy & policy transformation.

She brings to icunet extensive experience and expertise from over 22 years of responsible activity in International HR & Global Mobility Management in both corporate and medium-sized structures as well as consulting.

After studying business administration at the University of Passau, she started her career as a trainee at ThyssenKrupp Elevator. In the following years she held various specialist and management positions with a focus on International HR at PwC, Metro, Ferrostaal and Merck, including 15 years as Head of Global Mobility.

Her main responsibilities included the conception of a global mobility strategy and policy, the management of shared service centers, the implementation of outsourcing solutions, global vendor management and responsibility for compliance & governance.

Stephanie Reckmann speaks German and English. She also has basic knowledge of Spanish and French.

Personal Profile Daniel Niebauer

As Vice President Digital Services, Daniel Niebauer is responsible for icunet’s information technology and product development. Mr. Niebauer has been with the company since 2014 and is responsible for the strategic and operational development of software and digital products worldwide, digital transformation and the topics technological innovation as well as process optimization and automation.

During his professional career of more than 15 years in various specialist and management positions in corporations and medium-sized companies, his main tasks included strategic and operational planning, conception, implementation and operation of software products and solutions, development and implementation of strategies in the context of digital transformation as well as the management of local and global development teams including outsourcing and vendor management.

Daniel Niebauer speaks German and English.