Management

Dr. Christian Bogatu, Co-founder and Managing Director

Christian is one of the leading experts on smart containers with extensive academic and business background in this nascent industry. Christian co-founded Kirsen back in 2001 in Berkeley, California and his Ph.D. thesis "The Smart Container business case as an answer to security-related and logistical challenges" (published in 2008) combines the technology, applications, process, regulation, and foremost the business implications of smart containers in an unprecedented way.

Christian has more than 5 years experience as senior consultant and project manager with McKinsey & Company. In 2009, Dr. Bogatu was appointed an Advisory Board Member of the UC Berkeley Business Administration International Diploma

Christian holds a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in security technology and logistics and a master (Diplom) in chemical engineering from the University of Technology in Berlin, Germany. He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.