Rudy Hagedorn

Born in West Africa, raised and educated in Arabia, Latin America and Europe. Rudy is a multilingual specialist in Operation Research who optimises logistic processes and codes software. He gathered global experience in non-profit organisations, start-ups, medium-sized companies as well as multinational enterprises. Rudy occupied multiple positions, as vice president, business analyst, data scientist, programmer and supply side planner.

Today he manages cross-cultural networks of international experts at the Consumer Goods Forum, operating in complex areas of pre-competitive collaboration and covers industry relevant topics that require global scaling. Rudy’s dynamic portfolio covers topics like automation, cybernetics, product data and especially future value networks. He is the co-initiator of innovation initiatives like DataPorts.io, True-Code.org, SimpleLinks and TimeBinder.