Dr. Victor Henning

•  Jan 2011 
  Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts View website
•  Sep 2005 
  Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Foundation of the German Economy View website
•  Aug 2005 
  Overall Best Conference Paper Award, 2005 Summer Marketing Educators' Conference View website
•  Aug 2005 
  Best Paper in Track Award, E-Commerce and Technology Track, 2005 Summer Marketing Educators' Confere View website

Victor is the co-founder and CEO of Mendeley. Max Planck famously said: "Science progresses funeral by funeral". At Mendeley, Victor is trying to find gentler methods for advancing science.

Victor holds a Ph.D. from the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, where he researched the role of emotion in consumer decision making. After making it through the customary process of being clubbed like a baby seal, i.e. "peer review", his research was published in the Journal of Marketing and in Media, Culture & Society. In his first year as a Ph.D. student, he also won the Overall Best Conference Paper Award at the largest academic conference in the field of marketing, the AMA's 2005 Summer Conference in San Francisco - and was told by the conference chair that his academic career could only go downhill from there. Nonetheless, the Foundation of the German Economy kindly decided to grant him a doctoral dissertation scholarship in 2006, and the Royal Society of Arts elected him a Fellow in 2011.

At the Bauhaus-University, Victor was also frequently cast in student short films, despite a visible lack of acting talent. He compensated by organizing the "Guru*Talk" lecture series with German film industry luminaries, which was later turned into a book on the future of the film industry, and consulted for film production companies. Prior to having had all this fun, he completed an MBA at the WHU Koblenz, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the Handelshøyskolen BI Oslo.

Victor has also worked as a Talent Scout A&R for Sony Music/Columbia Records in Berlin, and in various roles at punk/garage label Revelation Records in Huntington Beach, California. Realizing that one couldn't make a living with the music he loved, he moved on to Munich-based film producer/distributor Helkon Media, which promptly went bankrupt (not Victor's fault). Later, in parallel to writing his MBA thesis, he also co-founded the Korova Bar in Vallendar which, if nothing else, taught him how to use dangerous power tools.

BurkertBareiss/TV60 Film, Cass Business School/Film Business Academy, CineStar, Kinowelt, Neue Bioskop Film, UK Film Council