Dr. Bär is the Managing Director/President of the adphos Digital Printing GmbH. He is one of the founders of the IndustrieSerVis GmbH (legal predecessor of AdPhos) and Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 (Germany). Before he was the leader of the business segment “High Temperature Technology and Installations” at IABG, Ottobrunn. Dr. Bär was responsible for the Technology-Program “HERMES-Heatstructure-Tests” (the European space shuttle program) and graduated as Dr.-Ing. (with award) at the faculty of mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen in Germany.