Andreas Aepfelbacher is the Deputy Director of Fraunhofer Venture and is in charge of the business administration staff. He joined Fraunhofer Venture in February 2002 after spending time working in controlling at Messe München GmbH and as a project developer and investment controller at a leading company of RWE-Umwelt AG. Andreas Aepfelbacher became a CFA Institute Charterholder in 2007 after completing his studies in forestry/environmental protection engineering and business administration at LMU in Munich and the Technical University of Munich as well as a program at the distance-learning university FernUniversität Hagen.