<div dir="ltr"><div><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Inviting Mentee Applications to the 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program until Feb. <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">7</span>, 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span></span></b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">*Do not reply to AIS World-- see below*</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">*** AIS Senior Scholars and previous mentors are on bcc for better information -- hoping that they will all help spread the word ***</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The AIS Mentoring Committee (Jane Fedorowicz, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Wynne Chin, Helmut Krcmar, and Claudia Loebbecke) <b>kindly invites you to apply for the 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program! It only takes a reply to this mail!</b></span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">After the successful 2024 program (thanks to ALL involved!) is just before the 2025 version … We will more or less repeat the successful 2024 model; t</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">his is the plan<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> for 2025</span>:</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Until February <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">7,</span> 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span>, we welcome<b> mentee applications<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> (PLEASE SREAD THE WORD!)</span></b>. To apply, it only takes <b>one eMail to <a href="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de" title="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de</a> (NOT to AISWorld) </b>with your first name, last name, academic institution, and institutional e-mail address<b></b></span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">stating that you</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(1) wish to participate,</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(2) are IS faculty member (we are not picky, all mentors are related to IS)</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(3) are in a <b>minority</b> position (gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, handicap, etc.) <b>OR</b> <b>non-tenured</b> in your current school / environment (we will not check minority status, but try to check tenure status)</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(4) are <b>NOT</b> a PhD student (we will check)</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(5) have <b>not yet (co)published</b> in MISQ, ISR, JAIS, or JMIS (we will check).</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Mentees may have participated <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">in the AIS Career Mentoring before; they would get a different mentor</span>.</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">It is easy: One such mail with all elements and NOT sent to AIS<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span>World by February <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">7</span>, 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span>, and you are in the drawing drum! Please do not omit any of the above points.</span></b></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">After February <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">7</span>, we will polish the list. <b>During February (date tbd.) we will randomly draw mentor/mentee pairs.</b> The drawing will be online and open; so it is possible, but by no means necessary to attend. <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">W</span>e will show only names<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">; </span>it is important that nobody feels that we manipulated the drawing.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">P</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">lease note that the AIS Career Mentoring Program is an additional goodie offered by AIS Senior Scholars and friends (all to be appreciated later). <b><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Th</span>e smaller <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">number</span>, either volunteering mentors or applying<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">/accepted</span> mentees, will define the number of pairs</b>. <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Likely, n</span>ot everybody will be matched. There will be only one round, no follow-up for non-drawn persons. <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Again, this is a voluntary goodie form and for all involved!<b></b></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Drawn mentor / mentee pairs will receive their respective contact details soon after the drawing. </span></b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">They shall then meet online for about an hour at a mutually convenient time, ideally within the 4 weeks after the matching. After that, it will be <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">completely </span>open to mentee and mentor how to proceed! Some pairs will interact frequently and stay in touch forever, others will give up earlier. We <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">can</span> offer some suggestions based on <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">previous </span>experiences, however, <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">we know that all</span> mentors have solid mentoring experience<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> and we somehow expect that </span>most mentees will come with some questions or concerns.</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">By mid-November 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span>, <b>mentees should send a standardized very short report</b>, so that -- during ICIS 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span> -- we can inform A<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">IS</span> Senior Scholars and the crowd about a hopefully successful and helpful program as another small diamond <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">in </span>the AIS portfolio.</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px 0px 12pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Looking forward to drowning in applications to the 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">, I ask you to kindly spread the word,</span></span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px 0px 12pt"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Best wishes </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">- Claudia (Loebbecke)</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">P.S.: In parallel, we are <b>undertaking some efforts for gaining mentors</b> to the 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> -- it looks promising, but it is never enough!</span> If some full professor or senior associate professor<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">,</span> AIS member<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">,</span> would be ready to volunteer, pls. send an eMail to<b> </b><a href="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de" title="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de</a>. Mentees, organizing committee<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">,</span> and the AIS shall be grateful.</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:ARIAL,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br>[sent for the AIS Mentoring Committee 202<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">5, </span>Wynne Chin, Jane Fedorowicz, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Helmut Krcmar, and Claudia Loebbecke - <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">the latter </span>in charge of all mistakes!]</span></p><p align="left" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span lang="it" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">-------------------------------------------------</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></span><span lang="de" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/team-loebbecke-home-engl.htm" title="http://www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/team-loebbecke-home-engl.htm" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="it" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Professor Dr. Claudia Loebbecke, M.B.A.</span></a></span><span lang="it" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:i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