Willms Buhse

Willms Buhse (born 3 November 1970 in Langenhagen, West Germany) is a German business executive, author, speaker and consultant based in Hamburg. His work focuses on innovative leadership strategies, covering as well the technical aspects of enterprise 2.0 as the philosophical aspects of change management and organizational transformation. In 2006 and 2007 Buhse was named one of the "Top 50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment".
In 2009 Buhse founded the Enterprise 2.0-consulting company doubleYUU and currently works there as CEO. Among their customers are Renesas, Lufthansa, Volkswagen AG and Daimler. Prior to that he was Executive Director at CoreMedia since 2003. From 2002-2006, he also served as Vice Chair for the Open Mobile Alliance working on open standards for mobile.
Before that he was over five years at Bertelsmann AG in Gütersloh, Hamburg and New York City. There he co-founded Digital World Services. He worked on projects with AOL, AT&T, Napster and Universal. Before, he was a consultant in technology and strategy projects at the German top-management consultancy group Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and advised companies like Volkswagen and Deutsche Bahn.
Buhse holds degrees in industrial engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) and in management sciences (Dipl.-Oec.) from the Leibniz University Hannover (Germany) and Madrid (Spain) and a Ph.D. in economics from the Technical University of Munich.
Buhse is author and editor of five books and has been speaking at over 100 conferences and panels on the effect of networking on different industries.
He lives in Hamburg with his wife Daniela, his son Ben and Labrador Retriever Lucky.