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Georg Sauter had quite a few uninspired meetings and workshops in his earlier career as marketing director, among others at Unilever or Carlsberg. This was less due to the other participants, but more to the rooms in which these meetings took place. The well-known conference hotel is just one of many rather, shall we say, suboptimal meeting locations.

Georg may have spent quite a bit of time in uncreative, unimaginative meetings and workshops, but this time was not senselessly wasted: because this is where he got the idea for the start-up "OutOfOffice" (OOO), of which Georg is co-founder and managing director. The modern, dynamic and digitalized working world in Germany's metropolitan regions will thank Georg for this for a very long time to come and will benefit from the completely new type of meeting and workshop culture.

The OutOfOffice project not only benefits from Georg's professional experience, but also from his varied life to date in numerous exciting places around the world. Georg grew up in the clear air of the picturesque Hegau region and studied economics at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, specializing in marketing and sustainability.

The German citizen of the world has already lived in Hamburg, Berlin, Toulouse, Dublin, Rome or Lecce. That's exactly why every OOO location is a place of openness - because only open minded creativity can emerge. OutOfOffice lives from the input of the internationally networked world.

Before OutOfOffice, Georg was the idea generator and founder of "Sturmfreie Bude" in Hamburg. In this project he is still the main partner. Georg is married to the Italian Chiara Oliva, who is co-founder and managing director of OOO alongside Georg. Georg and Chiara have two children. The exciting self-experiment of watching German-Italian mixed genes grow up is currently their second big task.

The first: to start their own tradition with OutOfOffice in the best Italian and Southern German family business tradition and to go down in the history of modern business culture.

Love not only goes through the stomach, but also through professional life: Chiara Oliva first fell in love with Georg Sauter and then with his innovative business idea OutOfOffice - namely to create creative spaces for meetings and workshops in exposed locations in various major cities and to launch a new, contemporary meeting culture. To do this, Chiara not only left her job as Global Brand Manager at Unilever, where she was responsible for the world's biggest ice cream brands, but also her native Italy.

At Unilever, Chiara fell in love with the charismatic man with his pleasant, calm charisma. Like Georg, Chiara brings a lot of life experience and international influences to the OutOfOffice project.

Having grown up in Lecce, southern Italy, spoiled by the sea and the sun, Chiara attended LUISS University in Rome, which she calls her second home, to study Business Administration and Marketing. During her studies, Chiara was particularly drawn to Australian culture, which she spent several months exploring while traveling.

Once in Hamburg, she finally founded the start-up OutOfOffice together with Georg and has a very clear idea of her part as co-founder and CEO: Chiara's expertise combines Italian creativity and beauty with German efficiency and discipline. Together with Georg she lives and loves the company mantra "meet.create.play".