Dr. Georg Kofler is a passionate serial entrepreneur and an expert in communication, marketing and e-commerce. He knows what it means to take entrepreneurial success into your own hands from the ground up. In 1989, Kofler launched the television station ProSieben, which he developed into ProSieben Media AG and took public as CEO - the first major IPO of a German media company. At the same time, Kofler introduced teleshopping to the German market for the first time with the channel H.O.T., now HSE24. He then became CEO and shareholder of H.O.T. Networks AG, which developed teleshopping throughout Europe. In 2002, Kofler took over the management of the pay-TV company Premiere, which was on the verge of insolvency. Kofler restructured Premiere and successfully took it public in 2005. He left the television industry in 2007 and has since invested in companies in the digital economy, media industry and e-commerce via several investment holdings. Kofler was also an investor in the popular TV show “Die Höhle der Löwen” from 2017 to 2022. Dr. Georg Kofler regularly captivates audiences at forums, congresses and business events with his extensive experience, entrepreneurial dynamism and rhetorical brilliance.