George Weinberg studied business administration at the Boston University and later earned a master’s degree in construction engineering from the RWTH Aachen University. While working at the Planning Department of the City Authority of Düsseldorf, he taught at the architecture and engineering faculties of RWTH Aachen University and completed his doctoral research, receiving his doctorate in 1982. He subsequently entered the private sector and became Partner and Vice President for construction and development at Atlantic Realty Corporation in the United States. In 1990, he returned to Germany as shareholder and board member of a publicly listed company with Folksarm as principal shareholder and in 1992 moved to Berlin to serve as Managing Director of Berliner Bank Real Estate. In 1998, he founded Tomorrow Fund Management with operations in Germany and the United States and served as Chief Executive Officer and Partner until 2004. Since then, his professional activities have focused on Grundwert USA and Grundwert Polska, where he serves as Executive President and Partner, with a specialization in commercial, retail, and residential real estate development and an aggregate project volume of approximately five billion US dollars. Alongside his entrepreneurial career, Dr. Weinberg has acted as a representative of Republican positions in the United States since the first presidential term of Donald J. Trump and has established himself in German public discourse as a consistent and recognizable voice in national media on transatlantic conservative affairs.

Richard Wilhelm is an American who has lived and worked in Germany for nearly four decades. During this time, he has held senior leadership positions in the automotive and fast-moving consumer goods sectors. For the past fourteen years, he has worked as an Interim Manager, successfully leading and completing a range of projects for pharmaceutical companies.

Arian Aghashahi serves as Managing Director of the Sovereignty Foundation, a political foundation affiliated with the ESN party in the European Parliament. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute and serves as Senior Advisor to TRENDS Research and Advisory and Republicans Overseas Germany. Prior to these roles, he spent three years as Head of Strategy at TheRepublic, a Berlin-based platform for centre-right campaigns and international network building. He worked for two members of the CDU and CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. He holds law degrees from the Free University of Berlin and the University of Connecticut. During his studies, he worked as a student assistant to two professors of law and received scholarships from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Deutschlandstiftung Integration, and the Claussen Simon Foundation.

David Knower serves as Partner and Head of Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH, a role he has held since 2003. Prior to this, he was Owner and Managing Director of Invenimus, an international consulting firm headquartered near Frankfurt. Earlier in his career, he spent eleven years at Procter & Gamble, beginning in Germany in 1986, where he held senior-level finance and controlling positions before managing the company’s Germany Fine Fragrance business in the Asia-Pacific region. He holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and German from the University of Massachusetts, where he graduated with honors and was named a Commonwealth Scholar, and earned an MBA with honors from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He serves as Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, is a Board Member of the Aspen Institute Germany and the American German Institute, and has long been active within the Atlantik-Bruecke. He is an Advisor to Republicans Overseas and a member of the Republican National Committee Finance Committee. He is the author of Business Guide USA, a practical guide to establishing business activities in the United States, and maintains an extensive transatlantic network across business and political spheres.

Benjamin Wolfmeier, born in Berlin, spent twenty four years working as a bookseller in Lower Saxony before transitioning into political and public affairs work. In the late 1990s, he became a member of Democrats Abroad and worked on the Kerry campaign in Florida as well as the Obama campaigns in New Hampshire and Connecticut. In 2010, he changed party affiliation, became a Republican, and worked for the Romney Ryan campaign in Wisconsin and later for the Trump campaigns in Colorado, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Florida. In 2018, he left the retail sector and joined KONE in Hannover, where he worked for three years. Since 2018, he has been active in public affairs for Republicans Overseas Germany, regularly appearing on German television, radio, and in print media, including Phoenix, Maybrit Illner, and Lanz, where he explained the policies of President Trump and the GOP. Since 2016, he has also delivered lectures on US politics and the US electoral system across a wide range of German political audiences, from left to right, including the Hayek Club.