Tobias Straube

Straube has co-led the research foundation for this course with Dr. Groth. He has a background as a venture developer, startup entrepreneur, and consultant with 10 years of professional experience in AI, FinTech, and consulting in the private and public sectors.

At Cambrian, a Berkeley-based deep tech product and strategy design lab, Straube is the VP of Operations & Analysis. In this role, he has designed privacy computing solutions and data marketplaces and implemented several international education and research projects around the cognitive economy.

The World Economic Forum's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution recently recognized his contribution to their national AI strategy framework. In 2020, he was also a member of a World Economic Forum working group on Responsible Use of Technology. He is also a board member at Digital Waves, a Swiss-based financial intermediary that makes innovative and digital assets bankable and leads an advisory network in the area of international economic cooperation. His work has been published in WIRED, California Management Review, ZeitOnline, Handelsblatt, and the European Business Review.

Straube has lived and worked across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. He holds an Executive MBA from Hult International Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Applied Science in Bremen.