Mitarbeiter | WIFU – Wittener Institut für Familienunternehmen

Sandra Swienty

Sandra Swienty joined the WIFU Foundation in April 2023 as Event Manager. From 2019 to the end of 2022, she was a founding member and manager of the startup Blaenk,...

Ole Schachtsiek

Ole Schachtsiek has supported the WIFU Foundation as project manager since February 2023. Before that, he had been working as an assistant to the SEO since April 2021. His focus...

Vilma Federico

Vilma Federico has been part of the WIFU Foundation's event management team since February 2023. Her work focuses on planning, coordinating and accompanying events of the WIFU Foundation as well...

Dr. Felix Lorenz

Felix Lorenz joined WIFU in February 2023 as a senior research fellow at the Chair of Corporate Entrepreneurship and Digitalisation in Family Businesses. In July 2022, he completed his doctorate...

Dr. Caroline Heil

Dr Caroline Heil joined the WIFU in January 2023 as a senior researcher for the research project ‘Lifestyles and Socialisation in Business Families’. In July 2022, she completed her doctorate...

Dr. Matthias Breier

Since September 2022, Dr Matthias Breier has been supporting the WIFU research team as a senior research fellow, focusing on ‘Business Model Innovation in Family Firms’. Parallel to his work...

Yaran Xiao

Since November 2022, Yaran Xiao has been researching the role of business families in Chinese family businesses in mainland China as a scholarship holder of the WIFU Foundation under the...

Tanja Steinbrecher

Tanja Steinbrecher has been an executive assistant at the WIFU Foundation since November 2022. Previously, in 2019, she strengthened the secretariat of an institute director at the Fraunhofer Institute for...