Hannes is iversity’s Managing Director and CMO. He holds a Dual-Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and a B.A. in International Relations from the Technische Universität Dresden. In 2007, he completed the Academy Year programe at the European College of Liberal Arts. During the last year, Hannes wrote a book in collaboration with Yehuda Elkana on the future of the university in the digital age and worked as an associate (2010/11) on the New Digital Society project for the stiftung neue verantwortung. Moreover, he was one of the initiator’s and built the blog for Causa Guttenberg.

Simon is iversity’s Chief Operating Officer (COO). Before joining iversity he served as a researcher and analyst at the Illuminate Consulting Group, a Silicon Valley-based science and research strategy consulting firm. Simon holds a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and a B.A. in British and American Studies and Social Sciences from the Universität Bielefeld. He was also educated at Indiana State University (USA) and the National University of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Gerald is iversity’s Product Strategy Adviser. Following his passion for all things web-related, Gerald founded Project Scio in Berlin in 2009. Prior to web design, Gerald studied physics at Duke University and the Technische Universität Berlin.

Mirus is iversity’s Brand Designer. He studied Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle  in Paris. While still a student, Mirus worked as a research assistant of Franz Liebl, Professor of Strategic Marketing at the UdK. His master's thesis was entitled Strategic Analysis by Intervention. Mirus began his career in communications as an intern at Moema Espresso Republic; he was later hired as a full-time Marketing Strategist.

Björn is a co-founder of iversity. He is currently working on his Ph.D. and supports iversity in the areas of text composition, public relations, and product conceptualisation. He studied German Literature, Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Humboldt-Universität, Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton University. His areas of interest in research include Systems Theory, History and Theory of Media as well as Edition Philology. He spent three years in the Manuscripts Department of the Berlin State Library, during which he developed software tools for manuscript editing and worked on digital editions of the literary remains of  Franz Brümmer and Friedrich Nicolai.