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Martin Klenk Learned to Read the Invisible
Before Celonis could map the hidden life of a global company, its CTO had to learn that computers keep better diaries than people do. His career began with a 286, a library shelf and the pleasure of making difficult things work.
Alexander Rinke
A mathematics student found a way to make invisible business processes visible. Fifteen years, thousands of handwritten letters and one clapped-out Opel later, Alexander Rinke is trying to give enterprise AI the context it lacks.
Fabian Gerlinghaus
Fabian Gerlinghaus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cellares, a South San Francisco biotech company building the world's first Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization (IDMO) for cell therapy. An aerospace engineer turned life-science entrepreneur, he co-founded Cellares in 2019 after spotting a critical gap: FDA-approved CAR-T therapies were sitting ready while patients died on waitlists because manufacturing couldn't scale. His Cell Shuttle platform — a fully automated, factory-in-a-box system processing 16 patient batches simultaneously — has attracted $630M in funding, a $380M partnership with Bristol Myers Squibb, and FDA's Advanced Manufacturing Technology designation. TIME magazine named it one of 2025's most important inventions.