Vanessa Weber is Managing Director of Werkzeug Weber GmbH & Co. KG in Aschaffenburg and a passionate entrepreneur. For many, she is the voice of the SME sector. As a blogger and specialist author for numerous well-known media, as an influencer on the topics of female and modern entrepreneurship, innovation, management and leadership and as a popular and award-winning speaker at major congresses and conferences, she provides valuable inspiration to many thousands of people and is regarded as a role model of a socially committed and responsible entrepreneur. Werkzeug Weber GmbH & Co. KG is run by Vanessa Weber in the fourth generation as a family business. At the age of 22, she was faced with the major task of taking over the company as its successor. She took on this challenge and, together with her team, managed to more than quintuple turnover in the following years and fundamentally realign the company's entrepreneurial success. She focuses on innovation and new business areas as well as sustainability - within the company, but also in the social and societal sphere. She is committed to climate protection and the education of children and young people, as well as to reconciling economy and ecology. Vanessa Weber stands for healthy, ethical and sustainable economic growth. She is the founder of the Vanessa Weber Foundation for Education and Sustainability, an activist in various environmental and climate protection movements and is involved in committees of various national and international business and professional associations. Among other things, she is a member of Familienunternehmer and the Ethik Society. In 2019, she was honored by the Federal Ministry of Economics as a "role model entrepreneur". In 2024, she received the Bavarian Constitutional Order for her outstanding commitment and was named "Woman of the Year" by the Beyond Gender Agenda initiative.