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Raimund has worked in the hospitality industry for over 20 years and has both strong on-property operational expertise as well as multi-property and regional capabilities. Raimund has worked in various roles during his diverse career including reservations management, conventions sales agent, and director of revenue management for hard brands including Hilton, Accor, and Starwood. In 2016, Raimund joined Preferred Hotels & Resorts as Director of Hotel Revenue Optimization, supporting over 45 independent member properties across Central & Eastern Europe. Raimund is CRME certified by HSMAI and has been a proud member of HSMAI DACH Advisory Board since May 2022. A keen coach and consult to hotels in the area of revenue management, he provides hotel members with global market intelligence data to increase business from both feeder and emerging markets in order to maximize the hotels but also the brand’s income and profit. Raimund lives in Munich with his family and has a BA in Business with a major in Finance Management and Sales & Marketing from Hamburger Fernhochschule.

James L. Sherley, M.D., Ph.D. is the founder, President, and CEO of Massachusetts stem cell biotechnology company Asymmetrex®, LLC.  Asymmetrex® develops and markets technologies for advancing stem cell medicine, including the first method achieving specific and accurate certification of the dosage of therapeutic tissue stem cells, called kinetic stem cell (KSC) counting.  Asymmetrex’s kinetic stem cell counting platforms are also used to optimize manufacturing of therapeutic stem cells and for evaluations of drug effects on tissue stem cells.  Dr. Sherley is a graduate of Harvard College, with a B.A. degree in biology, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, earning joint M.D. and Ph.D. degrees.  Prior to founding Asymmetrex®, he held academic research appointments at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston Biomedical Research Institute.  Dr. Sherley’s professional awards include Pew Biomedical Research Scholar, Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging Research, and NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.  He is also the author of a recently published new book, Missing Elements in the Public Science Supporting the COVID-19 Spread Narrative in the US.