Board

… International with more than 25 years experience in technology, licensing business, digital entertainment, marketing, sales, business development and operations at Dolby, Sony and RealNetworks.

Drawing on his many years of experience as an entrepreneur both at independent startups and incubated businesses inside global corporations, Andreas now advises emerging technology companies and develops entrepreneurial talent. In 2017 Andreas launched Silicon Castles: A Strategic Business Accelerator for technology IP licensing businesses.

Andreas also founded the Startup Executive Academy – a top class executive education for founders and startup executives in the Castle of Urstein in Salzburg – which features Baba Shiv from Stanford Graduate School of Business as lead professor.

He is also a board member for Mimi Hearing Technologies, Native Waves, Service Club and the Research Studios Austria and is advisor to the rector of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences.

… highly innovative cultures with an emphasis on differentiated signal processing to solve real-world problems. He directly manages a portfolio of over 40 venture investments.

Mr. Dolby is managing director of Dolby Family Ventures where he specializes in accelerating the path to a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

He is director of Dolby Laboratories, director of Cogstate Limited, CFO of the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, trustee of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, board member of Tipping Point Community, and board member of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

… he was also a member of the board of AGIV, the former majority shareholder of Andritz. In 1999 Wolfgang Leitner together with financial investors acquired Andritz and took it public in 2001. Today Wolfgang Leitner through a private trust owns ca. 26 % of Andritz’ shares, and controls additional ca. 5 % through a second private trust.

In 1986 he was a founding member of a pharmaceutical company, seeing the successful flotation of its Eastern European subsidiaries on the Budapest Stock Exchange and their subsequent acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Prior to this Wolfgang Leitner worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Munich and New York from 1981 to 1985 and as a researcher from 1978 to 1981 for Vianova, an Austrian subsidiary of Hoechst AG. He holds a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Graz, Austria.

Pascal has advised the Dolby family since 2011 and is currently a Managing Director of Dolby Family Ventures, which he co-manages with David Dolby.

… where he previously held senior positions with several top tier global banks. He is a board member of several companies in the Middle East and Europe.

… in over 280 locations worldwide. He also was part of the IPO of Andritz AG in 2001 and has been responsible for the M&A activities of the Andritz Group including 75 successful acquisitions. Ernst was supporting the growth of Andritz over the past decades and holds masters degree of economics from the University of Graz, Austria.