Alexander Gerfer

CTO of Würth Elektronik eiSos Group

Alexander Gerfer is CEO and CTO of one of Europe & largest manufacturers of electronic
and electromechanical components with around 8,300 employees, based in Waldenburg,
Munich, Berlin and Barcelona, and with R&D locations in Silicon Valley, Dallas and
Shenzhen. The graduate electrical engineer learned his business from scratch as a radio and
television technician.

As man of the first hour he set up the product development as well as the quality
management. The passion of the author of specialist books is to communicate complex
content understandably. As a sought-after key note speaker, lecturer and promoter of
innovative hardware startups he is travels internationally.