LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dr. Daniel J. Guhr, Managing Director

Dr. Guhr serves as ICG's Managing Director and the Head of the Alumni Networks as well as Talent Acquisition Practice Areas.  Prior to founding ICG, he served as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Munich and San Francisco, and as a Director of Business Development with SAP in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Guhr has authored more than twenty research papers and studies on educational, organizational, and business issues.  He frequently speaks at international conferences, and comments widely on educational policy-making and competition topics in the press.

Dr. Guhr served as President of the Oxford University Society's San Diego branch from 2003 to 2006.   In 2006, he was elected to the Board of the University of Bonn's Universitätsgesellschaft. He joined the Council of the University of California at Santa Cruz's College Eight in 2007.

Dr. Guhr holds a D.Phil. in Higher Education and a M.Sc. in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Oxford, as well as a M.A. in Political Science from Brandeis University.  His doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford on Access to Higher Education in Germany and California was published in the series Studies in Comparative Education by the Peter Lang Verlag.

Dr. Guhr was also trained for three years in political science at Bonn and Harvard Universities, served as a research specialist at the Center for Studies of Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley, and conducted research at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Studies in Berlin.  During his studies, he was awarded a total of 17 scholarships and grants.

Mr. German Eichberger, Practice Area Leader Online Communities & Information Technology

Mr. Eichberger serves as a Software Engineer with Sony Online Entertainment and as a Lecturer at the University of California at San Diego Extension.

Previously, he served as a Senior Software Engineer at the University of California at San Diego, and as an information technology consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Mr. Eichberger holds a M.Sc. in computing science from the Universität Karlsruhe.  He also studied at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy.

Prof. Claudius Gellert, Practice Area Leader Institutional Development Strategy

Prof. Gellert has held academic appointments at Cambridge, Florence, Halle-Wittenberg, Harvard, Humboldt, Klagenfurt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Reading Universities.

He has been involved with many educational and policy organizations, including the German Academic Exchange Service, the OECD, the Wissenschaftsrat, the BMBF, the European Union's Commission on Higher Education Systems, and the World Bank.

Prof. Gellert obtained an M.A. in Sociology, Philosophy, and Psychology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, a Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and his Habilitation from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Dr. Maximillian Senges

Dr. Senges is a knowledge entrepreneur with a focus on Internet community and technology issues.  He has broad, international project experience with academic, governmental, and private organizations, centering on knowledge management, e-learning, communities, and IT governance.

He is involved in a number of associations, including the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

Dr. Senges holds a Ph.D. and a Master's Degree in the Information and Knowledge Society Program from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona, as well as a Diplom in Wirtschaftsinformatik from the Fachhochschule Wildau in Berlin.

Prof. Michael Wilkes, Practice Area Leader Health Care Capacity Development

Prof. Wilkes serves as Vice Dean of the School of Medicine and Director of the Global Health Program at UC Davis. His prior experiences include service as a faculty member at UCLA and Columbia University, as well as multiple leadership roles as director, chair, and dean.

He has commented extensively on medical issues in the media, including as medical consultant and producer for ABC, CBS, and NBC, as columnist for the New York and L.A. time, and as commentator for NPR. In addition, he has published more than 60 journal articles.

Prof. Wilkes obtained a B.A. from Vassar College, a M.P.H from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from the UCLA School Of Public Health, and a M.D. from the University of Connecticut. He completed residencies at the New York University Medical Center, Columbia University and New York City, and UCLA's Department of Internal Medicine.