Professor Hermann Simon is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of  Simon-Kucher & Partners. Simon-Kucher & Partners is the world’s  leading pricing consultancy firm with 45 offices in 30 countries. Before  committing himself entirely to management consulting, Professor Simon  was a professor of business administration and marketing at the  Universities of Mainz and Bielefeld. He was also a visiting professor at  Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, London  Business School, INSEAD, Keio University in Tokyo and the Massachusetts  Institute of Technology. Professor Simon has published over 35 books in  27 languages, including the worldwide bestsellers Hidden Champions and  Power Pricing, as well as Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share. His  latest books are Hidden Champions in the Chinese Century, True Profit,  and his auto-biography, Many Worlds, One Life, a Journey from the  Farmhouse to the Global Stage. The Hermann Simon Business School in  China is named after him. He coined the term Hidden Champions, companies  that have become global market leaders in their respective industries,  yet have remained unknown to the public. His Hidden Champions books have  sold over a million copies in China alone. The Chinese Government has  called Professor Simon a management mastermind and has allocated a  budget of 1.3 billion dollars for a program that has the aim of creating  1000 Hidden Champions.  

The Global Young Entrepreneur Society (https://www.gyes.org/) is an  international organization that supports exceptional young people in  reaching their aspirations through giving the platform for  entrepreneurial growth. President Daniel Gerlei and the Director of  GYES's UK Operations, Lewis Swire, host a publicly available Signature  Interview every month.