About us
Family Business Club is a student initiative within TUM, aimed at all students interested in family businesses. Our role is to offer you the opportunity to get in touch with established companies and meet inspiring personalities. In doing so, mutual exchange is just as important to us as the pursuit of knowledge and shared experiences.
Board
Yasmin Muderris
Family businesses navigate between tradition and progress, balancing family ties with entrepreneurial foresight. They think in generations, shaping markets through consistency and innovation. Their specialized knowledge and long-term strategies often make them niche leaders, even if not always in the spotlight.
B.Sc. Food Technology, TUM
B.Sc. Management and Technology, TUM
Felix Speicher
Family businesses are the backbone of our modern, globalized and digitalized world. They are crucial to overcome the huge challenges in front of us and leading in terms of long-term, sustainable thinking.
M.Sc. Robotics Cognition Intelligence, TUM
BSc Engineering Science, TUM
Core Team
Lisa Fischer
Event Management
Family businesses are particularly exciting to me because they have a unique perspective on sustainability. With their long-term vision, strong values and personal commitment to the success of their company, they prioritize sustainable practices based on local knowledge and a commitment to future generations.
M.Sc. Industrial Biotechnology, TUM
B.Sc. Molecular Biotechnology, JSU University
Daniel Buchner
Partner Management
Family businesses operate in a dynamic field of tension between tradition and progress, family ties and entrepreneurial foresight. They think in generations rather than quarters and shape markets with consistency and innovative strength. With their specialized know-how and long-term strategy, they are often leaders in their niche, even if their successes are not always in the spotlight.
B.A Classical Studies, LMU
B.Sc. Entrepreneurship & Innovation, ISM University Vilnius
Haya Al Yahya
Marketing Management
Family businesses represent a unique combination of long-term thinking and lived values. They demonstrate how responsibility is borne across generations and how continuous development is pursued with great care. Their close ties to people and the community make them a place where trust, continuity, and entrepreneurial courage converge.
M.Sc. Master in Management, TUM
B.Sc. Nutritional Sciences, University of Hohenheim
Anne Scharmann
People Management
Family businesses combine tradition with innovation and prove that courage and responsibility go hand in hand. Their generational perspective lends them stability and depth, and their decisions reflect a passion for building something sustainable for the community and future generations. In this way, family businesses are beacons of hope for a strong, reliable, and future-proof society.
B.Sc. Civil Engineering, TUM
M.Sc. Master in Entrepreneurship, WHU
B.Sc. International Management, WHU
Advisory Board
Andreas Buchner
Andreas Buchner is an entrepreneur and Managing Director of Hylas Holdings GmbH, a Munich-based family office focused on preserving and developing family wealth across generations.
His experience as an entrepreneur, managing director and supervisory board member gives him expertise in family businesses, investments and strategic business development.
As an Advisory Board member, Andreas supports the Family Business Club and helps connect students, next-generation entrepreneurs and established family business leaders.
Michelle Enning
Michelle Enning founded the Family Business Club at TUM together with Lennard Schramm. Her goal was to inspire students to take an interest in family businesses while providing a platform for exchange and networking with other Next Gens.
She worked at FamilienUnternehmerTUM, where she organized numerous events for Next Gens.
After completing her studies, she decided to gain experience outside her own family business as Executive Assistant to the CTO at LAPP, a globally operating family business.
As a member of the Advisory Board, she brings the perspective of a founder and provides insights into career opportunities in family businesses.
Christian Mohr
Christian Mohr is Managing Director and CCO of UnternehmerTUM, where he helps turn new technologies into entrepreneurial opportunities.
He founded FamilienUnternehmerTUM to connect family businesses with startups, drawing on his own family business background.
He also launched Germany’s first ETA Hub to prepare future leaders to take over small and medium-sized companies.
On our Advisory Board, he brings experience from both the family business world and Europe’s startup ecosystem.
Dr. Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf
Dr. Leopold von Schlenk connects established family businesses with startups, investors, and new technologies.
As a fifth-generation shareholder and member of the Supervisory Board of SCHLENK SE, he knows the transformation of a family business from personal experience.
He supported the establishment of FamilienUnternehmerTUM to connect family businesses more closely with the European startup ecosystem and supports young companies as an investor and advisor.
He brings to our Advisory Board a perspective shaped by entrepreneurship across generations and new ideas.
Lennard Schramm
Lennard Schramm co-founded the Family Business Club at TUM together with Michelle Enning with the aim of connecting the next generation of family business leaders and students and fostering exchange around entrepreneurship and succession.
He studied Management with a focus on Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich and gained international experience in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Today, he leads the organic veggie food GmbH, a second-generation family business producing plant-based foods under the SOTO brand since 1988.
As a member of the Advisory Board, he combines the perspective of an FBC co-founder with his own experience as a next-generation leader and managing director of a family-owned food business.