Oliver Niedermaier is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Tau Investment Management, which invests in underperforming manufacturers and producers in emerging markets to transform global supply chains and achieve financial, social, and environmental sustainability. He was honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2010 Young Global Leader, and he is a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on the Role of Business. Prior to Tau, Niedermaier was the founding CEO of DF King Worldwide, a leading global financial communications and stakeholder management firm and was an Operating Partner at Advent International. In 2005, Niedermaier and his wife established the Tashi Foundation for Bhutan, a nonprofit organization affiliated with UNICEF that is dedicated to children's education.