Michael Kokorniak has been a founder and software entrepreneur for more than 25 years. After his engineering studies and subsequent scientific work, he founded the software company Pace Aerospace Engineering and Information Technology together with two partners, which he expanded from a Berlin-based startup to a globally active group in the field of digitalization and decarbonization of the aviation industry until his retirement in 2021. Since then, Michael Kokorniak has been involved as an investor, entrepreneur and consultant in various promising technology sectors.