Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Globalpark

Dr. Lorenz Gräf

Dr. Lorenz Gräf, in the capacity of Chief Executive Officer, provides leadership for Globalpark AG and the Globalpark Group of Companies. He has been conducting research and working in the field of social sciences IT and online market research since 1988. He is the author of numerous books and specialist articles about online research. In 1997, Dr. Gräf organized the first GOR (German Online Research) conference in Cologne. In the “VIRTUS” (Virtual University Systems) project in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne, Dr Gräf was the manager of the evaluation team. From 1997 to 2004 he was a board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V. (German Society for Online Research). In 1999, he founded Globalpark GmbH in conjunction with Prof. Dr. Batinic. The company was converted into a public limited company (AG) in 2008.

Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Globalpark

Dr. Richard C. Geibel

Since 2009 Dr. Richard C. Geibel is Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Globalpark. He previously founded the business division Financial Services of Karstadt Quelle AG and acted for several years as CEO of “KarstadtQuelle Financial Services GmbH”.
After finishing his studies in information technology at the RWTH Aachen he gained his doctorate at the University of Cologne. Since 2004 he has been president of the charitable association „BIFOA“(Association for the Support of Business Studies at the University of Cologne), founded in 1963. Since 2008 he has been a member of the advisory board of the Department of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen. Furthermore he is CEO of the charitable “CENSET – Center for Scientific Entrepreneurship and Transfer GmbH” which supports the creation of new enterprises emerging from Universities or Research Institutions in the Cologne region.