Oliver Vollrath studied marketing and business informatics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. After his first position of 2 years at L'Oréal Deutschland GmbH in Category Management and Sales, he has been with VEND consulting GmbH since 2006. He has been one of the managing partners there since 2011 and is responsible for the fields of innovation management, trend management and agility. In challenging consulting projects, he uses his specialization to show medium-sized companies the successful path to the future.

In addition to his work at VEND consulting GmbH, Mr. Vollrath is an honorary board member and working group leader at quer.kraft - the innovation association. He also teaches digital transformation and business model innovation at the Technical University in Ulm. He is also the author of various book contributions and articles in the field of idea and innovation management