Amir Roughani

Amir Roughani holds a degree in industrial engineering (FH), specializing in environmental management. Born in Iran in 1975, Amir Roughani came to Berlin as an 11-year-old during the Iran-Iraq war. There he spent his youth in a dormitory.

At the age of 27, Amir Roughani founded today’s VISPIRON group of companies in Garching near Munich, which currently employs around 500 people in the technology sector. The company provides solutions and services in the areas of Future ENERGY and Future MOBILITY for over 300 customers worldwide. Annual sales of around EUR 50 million are increasingly generated from renewable energies, which provide green electricity for around 50,000 people.

Amir Roughani Presentation Topics

Sustainable Future – The Business Perspective
At the beginning, it is suggested to the audience that economic growth must be transferred to sustainable foundations in order not to end up in an ecological and economic dead end. This is followed by a presentation of the cross-industry success factors from an entrepreneur’s business perspective that are necessary for successful change. In this context, the pillars of sustainability play a central role. The presentation is a plea for an integration of sustainability as the basis of a business model and all actions required for it. With the business perspective, the compatibility of business goals and climate protection goals is not only conveyed, it is much more intended to inspire the audience to understand the climate-related change as a path without alternatives but at the same time full of opportunities. With pragmatic tips for focus and discipline, the presentation contains an interesting approach to achieve the goal of personal change in a targeted and systematic way.

Amir Roughani – Key Learnings from the Serial Entrepreneur
Amir Roughani has managed to start a company at the age of 27, which now generates a turnover of almost 50 million euros and is successful in four different industries. In doing so, he pursues a clear mission statement, his own motivation and vision. Through this background, Roughani provides the listener with an insight into the strategy for company foundation and management. Reliable pillars are indispensable, as well as strategies established in the business world. The lecture conveys with supporting example the mindset with which one can encounter success as an entrepreneur in the business world.

Sustainability and Change – The Business Perspective
For many companies/entrepreneurs, sustainability is a popular term. Almost in every context the term is used with pleasure. However, sustainability in its true sense is misused consciously or unconsciously. It does not matter, for example, whether the sustainable profit increase was generated with arms sales, child labor or environmental pollution. The majority also feel that environmental and social standards inhibit growth, result in competitive disadvantages and are associated with high costs. In this context, integrated sustainability in the business model offers many perspectives. The presentation not only expands on the factors for long-term entrepreneurial success, it also shows concretely how you can make a change in yourself and in your company.

Green Disruption – The Green Revolution is unstoppable
Climate change is about the survival of the planet, but for most people the solution is a regulatory task of politics. At the same time, scientific progress is also causing exponential change at a breathtaking pace in the automotive and energy sectors. Meanwhile, faster than regulation is keeping up. While doubling of the present has also occurred in the past – for example, the spread of an automobile or oil production followed exponential curves at times – Moore’s Law is changing the world faster and more sustainably than any previous doubling. The mobility and energy sectors play a major role in climate change and are in the midst of exponential development. This presentation helps to apply the exponential function to the mobility and energy world and to better understand an exponentially changing world.

The energy turnaround – the battle for electricity
Germany is considered the world leader in the field of renewable energy. The clear majority of society would like to see a switch to 100% renewable energy and firmly believes that those with political responsibility are acting in their interests. However, the reality is exactly the opposite. Politics and business exert a great deal of influence on this opinion-forming process and provide regulatory protection for the fossil fuel industry. For us, electricity is invisible and comes reliably from the socket, but behind the scenes there is a fierce battle for electricity. The presentation helps to sort out the real and perceived reality in terms of expansion and the position of market players much better. At the same time, it debunks the political forecasts and targets by relentlessly analyzing the facts. The new perspective is a continuing education in energy policy that causes a change in opinion among many and emotionalizes our relationship with electricity.

In 2014, Amir Roughani won the „Entrepreneur of the Year“ award presented by Ernst & Young in the field of IT and services. Capital magazine ranks Amir Roughani among Germany’s top 40 talents in the field of business. His group of companies has been elected several times to the list of „Germany’s Best Employers“.

Amir Roughani is a member of the SME Advisory Board of the German Federal Minister of Economics and the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. The serial entrepreneur is committed to climate protection and supports various social projects.