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Germany’s Top 50 Tech Influencers

Now in its eighth year, the Tyto Tech 500 is the definitive ranking of the most influential thought leaders shaping the technology landscape in Germany and across Europe.

Highlights

2024 Tyto Tech 500: German highlights

  • German influencers account for 30% of the Tyto Tech 500, which include influencers from the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. This puts Germany in first position with the greatest share of this year’s tech power list.
  • Two-thirds (66%) of individuals in the German Top 500 are business leaders. This places Germany just behind the UK, as the country with the second-highest number of influential business leaders, with only one fewer than the UK.
  • Germany boasts the highest concentration of influential academics across Europe, making up 6% of influencers in the German Tech 500
  • AI & Data Science (+126%), FinTech (+45%), and HealthTech (+35%) sectors have seen the most significant gains in influence in the German Tech 500 in 2024
  • The German Tech 500 reveals a very slight decrease in the proportion of women in this year’s list, falling from 28% in 2023 to 27% in 2024.
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Germany’s top 50 tech influencers
1
Sascha Lobo 
Journalist 
Freelance 

2
Frank Thelen 
Venture Capitalist 
Freigeist Capital 

3
Ola Källenius 
Business Leader 
Mercedes Benz Group AG 

4
Carsten Maschmeyer 
Venture Capitalist 
Maschmeyer Group 

5
Herbert Diess 
Business Leader 
Infineon Technologies 

6
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim 
Academic 
Funk 

7
Andreas von der Heydt 
Business Leader 
Tchibo 

8
Christian Klein 
Business Leader 
SAP 

9
Tijen Onaran 
Business Leader 
aci diversity consulting 

10
Michael Spehr 
Journalist 
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

11
Roland Busch 
Business Leader 
Siemens 

12
Jan Beckers 
Business Leader 
Ioniq Group 

13
Tobias Lütke 
Business Leader 
Shopify 

14
Andreas Scheuer 
Business Leader  
Asienbrücke e.V. 

15
Ugur Sahin 
Business Leader 
BioNTech 

16
Sabine Hossenfelder 
Academic 
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy 

17
Claudia Kemfert 
Academic 
Leuphana University of Lüneburg 

18
Volker Quaschning 
Academic 
HTW Berlin 

19
Stephan Scheuer 
Journalist 
Handelsblatt 

20
Richard Lutz 
Business Leader 
Deutsche Bahn 

21
Annahita Esmailzadeh 
Business Leader 
Microsoft 

22
Sara Weber 
Journalist 
Freelance 

23
Larissa Holzki 
Journalist 
Handelsblatt 

24
Teresa Bücker 
Journalist 
Teresa Bücker 

25
Dieter Zetsche 
Business Leader 
TUI AG 

26
Christof Kerkmann 
Journalist 
Handelsblatt 

27
Christian Stöcker 
Journalist 
Spiegel Online 

28
Marcell Vollmer 
Business Leader 
Prospitalia Group 

29
Verena Pausder 
Entrepreneur 
Pausder Ventures 

30
Matthias Kremp 
Journalist 
Der Spiegel

31
Jessica Schwarzer 
Journalist 
Freelance 

32
Thomas Kuhn 
Journalist 
WirtschaftsWoche 

33
Don Dahlmann 
Journalist 
Gründerszene - Business Insider 

34
Sandra Ciesek 
Academic 
Institute of Virology, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main 

35
Ralf Wintergerst 
Trade or Business Association 
Bitkom 

36
Diana Zur Löwen 
Venture Capitalist 
Rawr Ventures 

37
Alex Böhm 
Blogger 
Alexibexi - independent YouTuber 

38
Matthias Hohensee 
Journalist 
Wirtschaftswoche 

39
Michael Kroker 
Journalist 
WirtschaftsWoche 

40
Hildegard Wortmann 
Business Leader 
Ex-AUDI 

41
Daniel Hüfner 
Journalist 
Finance Forward 

42
Joe Kaeser 
Business Leader 
Siemens Energy 

43
Timotheus Höttges 
Business Leader 
Deutsche Telekom 

44
Philipp Westermeyer 
Business Leader 
OMR 

45
Florian Roth 
Business Leader 
Nextron Systems 

46
Katharina Schneider 
Journalist 
Handelsblatt 

47
Christoph Dernbach 
Journalist 
DPA 

48
Celine Flores Willers 
Entrepreneur 
The People Branding Company 

49
Atanas G. Atanasov 
Academic 
Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft 

50
Janna Ensthaler 
Venture Capitalist 
Freelance

Deep insights that ignite impact across Europe

Now in its eighth edition, the Tyto Tech 500 is our proprietary ranking of the most influential individuals working in technology across Europe.

To be in the list, individuals must have social media, online and offline influence.

The Tyto Tech 500 is the first data-driven ranking of European technology influencers based on in-depth analysis and multiple data points.

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