2025 – Present · Founder & Managing Director
Beer Familienholding GmbH
Family holding founded and managed for governance, asset management and succession planning, with a real estate portfolio in the Ruhr region.
Holding · Real Estate
Herten · Ruhr Region · Germany
Julian Beer
I build systems that scale and create value.
I have run operations at Amazon scale, led the program office of the EU initiative helping European industry share data, and built three companies of my own.
- Project Manager, Dataspace Initiatives Fraunhofer ISST
- Doctoral Researcher, Digital Business Innovation TU Dortmund, Prof. Dr. Boris Otto
- Founder & Managing Director Beer Familienholding · Beer Advisory & Ventures · CDB Digital
- Born
- 1995
- Degrees
- Master of Business Engineering · Bachelor of Arts, International Management
- Languages
- German (native) · English (fluent) · Dutch (proficient) · Spanish (basic)
- €13M
- Program office led for this EU DIGITAL project (DSSC)
- 45,000
- Employees in the peak network planned across DE, AT, NL
- 170M
- Packages handled in a single peak period
- 22
- Experts and project managers led across four teams
- 3
- Companies founded and run as Managing Director since 2025
01 · Experience
Career
From quality assurance on the warehouse floor to European research programs: every step added a layer, operations first, then organizational design, now governance and research. The Master's degree ran in parallel from 2018 to 2024, alongside the roles below.
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Fraunhofer ISST 2024 – Present Dortmund, Germany
Project Manager, Dataspace Initiatives
Scope€13M EU DIGITAL program (DSSC) · European partner consortium
- Leading the Project Management Office of the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC), an EU DIGITAL coordination project supporting data spaces across Europe
- Coordinating grant preparation, consortium agreements and grant agreement negotiations for DSSC2 (EU DIGITAL) with European partners
- Managing Horizon Europe compliance, deliverables and stakeholder coordination
- Contributor to Catena-X, the automotive data space
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Opta Data Group 2022 – 2023 Essen, Germany
Head of Organization & Projects
Scope4 teams · 22 experts · senior leadership team
- Responsible for the group's project, process and master data management as well as integrated management systems
- People management for 4 teams with 22 experts and project managers; member of the senior leadership team
- Designed the project management office, benchmarking system and knowledge management system
- Strategic alignment of the department with group strategy using a systems engineering modeling approach
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Amazon Logistics 2019 – 2022 Duisburg, Germany
Senior Program Manager
Scope90 sites · 45,000 employees · 170M packages · 30 project members
- Planned and executed Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas 2019 to 2021, ca. 45,000 employees and ca. 170M packages within the peak period, reporting up to worldwide senior leadership
- Direct and indirect people management for 30 project members and leaders; program and network planning for 90 sites
- Technical advisor to the Country Director AMZL MEU (DE, AT, NL) and member of the senior leadership team
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Amazon Logistics 2019 Duisburg, Germany
Manager Special Handling
Scope90,000+ oversized shipments per year · 25% shorter yard turnaround
- Launch and leading manager for oversize deliveries throughout Western Germany, 90,000+ shipments per year
- Supported the standard work rollout for all MEU stations and reduced yard turnaround by 25%
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Amazon 2017 – 2018 Brieselang, Germany
Area Manager, Inventory Control & Quality Assurance
Scope16 direct and up to 60 indirect reports
- Responsible for quality assurance at the Berlin site, leading 16 direct and up to 60 indirect reports
- Controlling, monitoring and auditing of processes, quality measures, inventory deviations and customer experience
- Reporting directly to the Head of Quality Management MEU
02 · Ventures
Own companies
Three companies, founded in 2025, each with its own purpose: family assets, advisory work, and a regulated digital health product.
2025 – Present · Founder & Managing Director
Beer Advisory & Ventures GmbH
Technology consulting and digital transformation, focused on data spaces, system integration and dashboard development. Clients include engineering firms and healthcare providers.
Consulting · Data
2025 – Present · Founder & Managing Director
CDB Digital GmbH
Digital health applications (DiGA) for the German market: product development through the BfArM approval process, compliant with MDR and data protection requirements.
Digital Health · Regulated
03 · Research
Doctoral work
Doctoral candidate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Dortmund, specializing in digital business innovation in industrial ecosystems.
How do governance mechanisms enable innovation in data spaces and digital ecosystems?
- Supervisor
- Prof. Dr. Boris Otto, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST
- Frameworks
- Viable System Model (VSM), causal loop modeling
- Methods
- Design Science Research, case study methodology, reference model design
- Target venues
- A-level information systems journals (MISQ, ISR, JAIS, EJIS); first submission in preparation
Education
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PhD Candidate, Digital Business Innovation
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Master of Business Engineering
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Bachelor of Arts, International Management
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Semester Abroad
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Semester Abroad
04 · Capabilities
Toolkit
Subjects I can be questioned on, rulebooks I have worked inside, how I analyze a system, and what I build myself. The last group is AI-assisted: enough to prototype an idea and to judge what an engineering team tells me.
Domains
Rulebooks
Methods
Building
05 · Contact
Let's talk
Open to conversations about leadership roles, advisory mandates and research collaboration.
- email@julianbeer.de
- Phone
- +49 175 8333636
- Address
- Leipziger Straße 11b, 45699 Herten