Alles neu…? Aus dem Maschinenraum

As founding Managing Director of Maschinenraum GmbH, Tobias Rappers has built an ecosystem of more than 70 German-speaking family businesses since 2019 to support them in their digital and sustainable transformation. He has extensive knowledge in the strategic and practical design of transformation processes and values the DNA of the German Mittelstand, which is characterized by courage, trust and long-term thinking.

Before joining Maschinenraum, Tobias Rappers worked for seven years as a management consultant at Roland Berger. During his time there, he developed a new consulting approach as Managing Director of Spielfeld Digital Hub GmbH and successfully implemented it operationally.

Tobias Rappers holds a Master in Management and studied at the WFI School of Management, HHL Handelshochschule Leipzig, University Stellenbosch in South Africa and the Indian Institute of Management.

Katja Michel prefers to travel as a reporter. Because she writes a lot about SMEs, this often means traveling to the German provinces rather than the big wide world. She has been an editor at Capital since February 2022. Before that, she was a freelance correspondent in Istanbul, an editor at Gruner + Jahr Wirtschaftsmedien in Hamburg for Impulse magazine and a freelance author in Berlin. She studied politics, history and literature in Berlin and Rome and graduated from the Berlin School of Journalism. Her stories have won several awards, including the Herbert Quandt Media Prize