Next to his studies of business informatics in Ansbach and China, Daniel Krauss, born in 1983, founded a company for IT consulting together with his high school friend André Schwämmlein. After his graduation he worked as a manager at Microsoft and Siemens, before he founded FlixBus (2011 in Munich) together with André Schwämmlein and Jochen Engert. Daniel Krauss is managing director and CIO of FlixBus.