Maria Fellner Email & Phone Number

Maria Fellner is Business & Transformation Manager at Know-Center since 2023.From 2020 to 2023 she was CEO and co-founder of digitAAL Life GmbH.From 2013 to 2020 she was head of business development at the institute DIGITAL of JOANNEUM RESEARCH (Graz, Austria). She supported the institute's research groups in business development, marketing, PR and sales of their innovative (future) products and services and designed the customer relationship management. Since 2011, she also coordinated the activities of the institute in the field of Digital Health & Care (formerly Active and Assisted Living).From 1999 to 2013, she led the Intelligent Acoustic Solutions team at the institute and, with her acquisitions and project management, contributed to the success of this growing field of activity, which, with its many industry-related projects, is a good example of actively implementing business and market orientation in applied research.This professional work is based on diploma studies in electrical engineering (Graz University of Technology) and a Professional MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation (WU Executive Academy).In addition to this full-time job, she is working as a lecturer for innovation and technology in healthcare at the IMC FH Krems (Austria) in the master programs "Applied Health Sciences" and "Management of Health Institutions", at FH Wr. Neustadt for Digital Business Transformation and at Fern-FH Wr. Neustadt and WIFI Wien for Medical Devices.From 1999 to 2014 she held several teaching assignments in the field of acoustics and audio engineering at Graz University of Technology and supervised numerous academic theses.Currently she is president of "AAL AUSTRIA - Innovationsplattform für intelligente Assistenz im Alltag" (www.aal.at).

Listed skills include Business Development, Unternehmensstrategie, Strategisches Management, Innovationsmanagement, and 11 others.