CURRICULUM VITAE
MAG. DR. EVELINE STEINBERGER-KERN
Eveline Steinberger-Kern, born on January 27th 1972 in Styria, is the founder and director of
The Blue Minds Company GmbH (TBMC), an innovative consulting and research company,
which concerns itself with questions and answers to the transformation of energy systems. In
Tel Aviv she operates the Blue Minds Israel Ltd., a subsidiary of TBMC, that develops software
for digital-energy-related services.
Eveline Steinberger-Kern is married to Christian Kern, chairman of the Austrian State Railways
(Österreichische Bundesbahnen), and is mother of a daughter (*2007).
She studied Business Management in Graz, obtaining her doctorate in 1998 from the University
of Graz (‘Karl-Franzens-Universität’), and completed the Young Management Programme at
‘INSEAD’, Fontainebleau.
From 1999 Eveline Steinberger-Kern was at ‘Verbund AG’ in Vienna for nine years, where
she served, among other things, in the role of head of Strategic Marketing and portfolio
management, and served as director of ‘Verbund-Sales GmbH’.
The Austrian Climate and Energy Fund was her next station. While there she led the business.
2010 she grounded her first business with ‘green minds’ and participated in the start-ups
surrounding the decentralised energy supply system (among other things, ‘The Mobility House
AG’, a mobility services provider for electromobility.)
From 2012 to 2014, as Sector Cluster Lead Energy at ‘Siemens AG Austria’, she was in charge
of the energy business in 19 countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
Since July 2014 Eveline Steinberger-Kern is back operating in her independent business
(decentralised energy provision). ‘The Blue Minds Company GmbH’ is a relaunch of the ‘green
minds e.U.’ company, which was founded in 2010.
Eveline Steinberger-Kern holds mandates in the Supervisory Board and the Administrative
Board of ‘Energie Burgenland AG’ and ‘UniCredit Bank Austria AG’.
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