Our Board of Directors

---

Matthias Grenda is a communication and business consultant as well as a versatile networker.

Mr. Grenda has extensive years of international experience as a media representative, including for several Olympic athletes and artists. He is a veteran event, entertainment and communications consultant as well, including such organizations as Cirque du Soleil, television networks, and celebrities. He is a certified communications trainer, and is a founder and chair of the non-profit organization "Society for Biographic Communication e.V.“ 

Mr. Grenda organizes the annual Nordwalder Biografietage (Biography Days), an event format that is unique in Germany and Europe, encouraging the exchange of life stories and life experiences. 

This biographic approach holds great value for Sustainably Empowering People Globally development campaigns. 

In 2026, he became a co-director of The Patrick Gruhn Research Institute of Entrepreneurial Innovation and Social Philosophy.

Shirley Martey Hargis is a multilingual strategist with a Ghanaian background, and over a decade of experience in China and Taiwan's domestic politics and foreign affairs.

Ms. Hargis' writings and commentary appear on domestic and global platforms, including the Wall Street Journal, POLITICO China Watcher, American Purpose, Taiwan Insight, the Carter Center, and the book Politics and Society in Contemporary China Edition 2. She has lived and worked in various areas within mainland China and Taiwan, is proficient in Chinese. As a second-generation American born to parents from Ghana, she is fluent in three Ghanaian dialects.

Ms. Hargis focuses on China's resurgence and cross-Strait tensions, including US-China relations, and China's matters in the Indo-Pacific and "Global South." Her domestic and foreign policy expertise spans defense and security, political economy, and technology in consulting, intelligence, policy research, and supporting policymakers, the intelligence community, DoD, and federal law enforcement communities.  

Ms. Hargis serves on the Truman National Security Project's Board of Directors, the George H.W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations' Board of Advisors, and CJPA Global Advisors' Global Advisory Board. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on US-China Relations and a nonresident fellow at the Taiwan NextGen Foundation.  

Bruce Kibler has over twenty years of experience in the international IT and telecommunications industry, research, and partnership building.

Mr. Kibler has worked in international business development and strategy in Europe and the U.S. with Deutsche Telekom and IBM, researching opportunities as well as finding the right partners for consortium building. Having started in mobile satellite communications at COMSAT in Washington, D.C., Mr. Kibler's work has focused on balancing the interests of collaborative partners across the 72 nations of the Inmarsat (International Maritime Satellite) signatories. Of special note is his persistent work in privatizing markets, i.e., collaborations with state officials and partners in winning bids and executing the build-out of national mobile communications networks. 

Mr. Kibler has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of MD, College Park, with minors in Math & Geography, where he also completed a teacher education program. He holds an M.A. in German Language and Literature from the University of MD, College Park, and received an M.A.S. in Business and Information Technology from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He received his Ph.D. in Business, focusing on Strategy and International Business in Slovakia, at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica.

Bringing innovative, sustainable technologies to nascent markets and enabling personal empowerment through partnering and training are the issues that drive his motivation and actions. 

Honorable Mark Lindsay is the former Assistant to President Clinton for the White House Office of Management and Administration.

Mr. Lindsay employs his expertise in government relations and private sector management and communications at The Livingston Group to assist a wide variety of clients. He is the Director of the Health Care and Pharmaceuticals practice and also focuses on the areas of International Relations and Business Development, Financial Service and Tax, Veterans Affairs, Technology, and the Environment.

Mr. Lindsay served in President Clinton’s White House as Assistant to the President for the Office of Management and Administration.

Prior to his appointment to the White House, Mr. Lindsay served as senior legislative counsel and counsel to Congressman Louis Stokes (D-OH). He worked closely with Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus on a wide variety of business and economic issues, including formulating the new South African Constitution.

At UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Lindsay was President of the AARP Pharmacy Services Division and Vice President of Public Communications and Strategy. He coordinated all of the company’s worldwide contacts with the media as central spokesperson and communications leader, developing and expanding the company’s relationship with democratic and republican state, local and national public officials in all fifty states.

Mr. Lindsay serves as a member of the board of directors on NASDAQ-listed Vivos Therapeutics (VVOS). His other corporate boards include U.S. Preventative Medicine and Cerescan. He serves on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio; LiveOn New York, the Truman National Security Project Board and the Truman Center Board in Washington, DC. He is also a trustee emeritus of the Macalester College Board of Trustees.

Dr. Wolfgang Rams is an Entrepreneur and Professor of Innovation Management.

Dr. Wolfgang Rams is a board member and professor at the European Institute of Management, where he focuses in part on 

he fields of FinTech, the digital economy, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. 

He was a co-founder and former CEO of Africa GreenTec, also serving as chair of the company's supervisory board, with the goal of scaling the company and its impact on corporate strategy, product, marketing management, innovation, venture capital and entrepreneurship, finance, and company building to support the goal of AfricaGreenTec's solar power energy work in rural, underserved communities of sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Rams attended the University of Duisburg-Essen, FernUniversität in Hagen, and RWTH Aachen University.