Working Together: Our Team

Rosmarie Steininger I Founder and Managing Director

It may be partially due to my own biography – I find it very hard to bear if talent remains untapped and opportunities are not seized because they are not obvious. My own education, a ‘continuation education’ and CV are testament to what is possible when potential is discovered and harnessed. Nothing is more powerful and opens up more opportunities than meeting the right person at the right time.

Before and during my studies I gained insights into polar opposite worlds: Growing up on a hop farm in the Hallertau region of southern Germany and interning at Deutsche Bank, a background in small business and a work placement at Siemens, The House of Commons and Roland Berger. Following on from there, I worked at the BMW Group for eight years – I developed algorithms, managed projects and created change. In 2011 I started working at the BMW Group Eberhard von Kuenheim Foundation and in 2014 I became Deputy Managing Director of Strategy and Finance and was responsible for the integration process with the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. The one thing that had the most lasting influence on me during this time provided the inspiration for founding CHEMISTREE in 2017: Relationships between people!

I believe that the most interesting things happen when people from differing backgrounds and walks of life come together and have meaningful exchanges. Such encounters don’t tend to happen by chance. They can be created and tailor-made – that’s what CHEMISTREE wants to achieve.