Michael Hofbauer

Our aim is to become the ‘EA Sports of Play&Earn gaming’; we plan on achieving this through the following: • Development of high quality games for all the major sports, using Play&Earn mechanics and in-game betting. • Becoming a sports gaming platform by opening our Sportsverse to third party sports game developers, sports equipment & clothing manufacturers. • Building a sports based Metaverse around the games with cross-sport championships & including digital versions of all things sports related.

• The management and technology consulting services provided by Green Candle Consulting center around Web3. We deliver specific capabilities to ensure our customers receive support in all phases of their organization’s / project’s life cycle from strategy & investment via implementation to operation. Services are provided by subject matter experts & coordinated by experienced delivery managers.

• Hundt & Partners is a business law, tax and management consultancy practice founded by partners active in KSA for 20+ years. In addition to a comprehensive business advisory offering Hundt & Partners has extensive experience in litigation/arbitration, mergers/acquisitions, government contracts and employment law. Its client portfolio of approximately 500 mostly European corporations also includes government institutions, local enterprises and over a dozen EU embassies and trade missions.

• Establishing a fully independent foreign investment company providing Scheer Group services to Middle East Region. Offering Managment Consulting services in the area of strategy, business process and technology advisory • Strategic planning and coordinated execution of Scheer Middle East operations • Acquisition of key business partners in the areas of business consultancy, IT training and education with focus on KSA, UAE and Bahrain • Coordinating large scale multi national proposal teams

• Establishing a regional company providing NovaTec services to Middle East Region • Strategic planning of Middle East Operations • Developing additional lines of business according to local market requirements • Acquisition of key business partners and customers • Proposal management and development of sales team • Steering of pivotal projects and initiatives mainly in the area of IT Strategy development

• Development of business relations concept for Siemens Ltd. IT • Driving alignment of IT strategy with business / corporate strategy • Facilitation of understanding between business and IT • Mapping of IT services to business processes • Drive and monitor demand management • Collect, analyze, clarify and bundle requirements towards IT • Trigger changes in IT portfolio based on corporate /business demands • Working with business / corporate on several organizational levels • Service review

• Rollout of Customer Relationship Management Solution for cluster Middle East Asia • Demand and change management for CRM • Coordination of 1st level support and development staff • Rollout of additional CRM modules / enhancement of existing functionalities • Coordination of CRM related initiatives • Development of Siemens Middle East CRM community • Responsible for CRM related communication and reporting • CRM workshops for sales managers, sales engineers and support staff

• Implementation of CRM on Demand including e.g. assessment of current and future CRM solution, data migration from predecessor system Concord, data cleansing activities , customization of CRM solution according to requirements of divisions and affiliated companies, CRM training of key user community and 130 CRM end users • Project management and coordination of CRM project team • Setup of a 1st level support organization incl. online support portal

• Participation at implementation of Exact Globe and further components of the SCS / Exact tool suite, training of users and on site user support at regional companies and Siemens affiliate companies in Europe and Northern Africa • Service desk request handling, remote user support and business processes consulting for over 50 SCS customers in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East • Template maintenance, release testing and creation of end user documentation

• Scholarship in Business Information Systems by Siemens Professional Education • Trainee in various departments of Siemens Communications, Siemens Medical Solutions and Siemens Business Services in Germany, UAE and Kuwait.

• Business and organization development • Establishment and operation of various profitable small scale businesses in the area of IT hardware, software and general trading

• Sales and procurement of trading goods • Organizing of marketing campaigns • Management of IT applications and infrastructure

• PC and network setup / administration on Battalion level • Participation at planning, preparation and realization of national and international missions, exercises and conferences

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