Dr Christoph Maier is an entrepreneurial academic and academic entrepreneur. He is a major shareholder in and the CEO of the Comazo Group, a clothing company with subsidiaries in Germany, Russia, Croatia and Romania and more than 500 employees. Christoph’s academic interests focus on issues of leadership, diversity, cross-cultural management and African management.
Besides managing his own companies and lecturing at universities, Christoph consults to various South African organisations and facilitates corporate workshops in transformation and leadership, taking senior executives to unknown territories – in the classroom and on field trips. Although travelling extensively, he has been based in Johannesburg since 1998 and spends as much time as he can here in what he says is “the world’s most exciting city”.