Clark Parsons is Founding Partner at iconomy, Managing Director of the Internet Economy Foundation and has served as AUREA Jury Secretary since its inception in 2018. Having started his career as a journalist in the USA, Clark moved to Germany on a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship in 1997 and worked in the growing European media and tech ecosystems in various roles since then, including co-founding a telecom startup in 2005. After having led a global Executive MBA program for the creative industries, the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, Clark then joined the Internet Economy Foundation at its start in January 2016 and co-founded the Berlin-based digital consultancy iconomy.