Arnulf Damerau is a serial entrepreneur and globally active philanthropist. He is chairman and founder of the EuroAtlantic Group and the EuroAtlantic Institute which hosts the annual EuroAtlantic Security Dinners during the MSC Munich Security Conference and the WEF World Economic Forum. Arnulf is a shareholder in Crowdstrike, the leading global CyberSecurity firm that protects the Cybersecurity of 10 largest financial institutions the world. . Arnulf studied and worked in Europe, United States and Japan, and graduated from the Wharton Business School in 1991. He is a competitive sailor and pilot.

Arnulf Damerau started as an entrepreneur at age 16 and has a personal investment and development track record in his Global Family Office  with aggregate ROCE of more than 100%. Notable investments include Crowdstrike Inc., where he invested 2018 in Series D (other investors included Google, Accell and General Atlantic) and participated in the Nasdaq IPO.

Arnulf grew up in Africa, Europe, Americas and Asia and studied Economics at the University of Bonn (Germany), the School of Foreign Service (Georgetown University), Columbia University (New York) and Sophia University (Tokyo). Arnulf graduated "Directors List" from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania earning his college tuition with equity option market-making and equity index-arbitrage at (Susquehanna International Group) and various investments. During his studies, he worked in the  Real Estate Finance Group at Hypovereinsbank (New York) and as assistant to the CFO at a defense subsidiary of Raytheon. Arnulf met the late Chairman of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen at the Wharton School in the Spring of 1989 and was offered the position as his Assistant. Upon his graduation from Wharton and after Alfreds murder in November 1989 by international terrorists, Arnulf  briefly worked as Corporate Finance Associate at Deutsche Bank in Tokyo, reporting to Jürgen Fitschen the former CEO, before joining Glencore.

Arnulf worked as Assistant to Eric de Turckheim, the CFO of Glencore  the world’s largest privately held company. At Glencore, Arnulf executed the first commodity asset acquisitions with the takeover of Südelekra Holding AG in 1990, and the succesful privatization bid for an oil field in Santa Cruz Argentina. Südelektra was subsequently renamed XStrata plc. and became of the world largest mining company. Glencore and Strata subsequently merged and Eric de Turkheim founded Trafigura together with Arnulfs friend and business partner Mark Crandall (PostScriptum Group) .

Arnulf subsequently established EuroAtlantic Group as a Global Family Office investing in real estate, renewable energy and technology. Arnulf successfully founded real estate companies, advised Goldman Sachs for the acquisition of real estate portfolios in Germany, teamed up with CSFB in a partnership to acquire hospitality development properties and in 2000 founded CYSAT as a GeoTechnology platform in a joint-venture with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to establish European Satellite-based remote sensing capabilities. The business plan was partially executed into what is now Google Earth. Arnulf has participated in the World Economic Forum in Davos; the Yalta European Strategy Forum in Ukraine; the St. Petersburg Economic Forum and has supported the Russia 2018 Soccer World Cup campaign resulting in his ancestral hometown Königsberg to become a host city. Since 2010 Arnulf devoted his time to investing in Ukraine. First in renewable energy projects and later in IT & Software sectors.

Arnulf co-founded - as curator and spokesman - the European Culture Foundation (Europäische Kultur Stiftung) in Schloss Nörvenich.  As part of this initiative he initiated the Forum Europe, held under the Patronage of the President of the German Parliament. Under his initiative, the foundation supported concerts of the Philharmonie der Nationen in Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin under the patronage of Hannelore Kohl and Foreign Minister Dr. Klaus Kinkel. In 1998, Arnulf welcomed President George H. W. Bush to Berlin at a ceremony to donate the sculpture 'The Day the Wall came down' and honored US General John Mitchell with the Order 'Pour le Mérite' of the Order Alexander the Great. As a Director of the Atlantic Jewish Foundation, Arnulf initiated and hosted the book launch of Ruth Zuckers biography 'Im Auftrag für Israel', commissioned the Heinz Galinski Bronze Bust to the City of Berlin and lead a delegation of the Atlantic Jewish Foundation to Germany and the German parliament in order to donate a Torah, written in 1900 in Kiev to the first Yeshiva in Germany - the Beit Midrash d’ Berlin which was founded by Yehuda Teichtal. 

As a philantropist, Arnulf Damerau gifted the EuroAtlantic Foundation and the EuroAtlantic Institute hosting the annual EuroAtlantic Security Dinner in Munich and supporting the Atlantic Initiative, which hosts the Atlantic Community and organizes the Atlantic Exhibition.

Arnulf is actively engaged as a Member of the Chairman Circle at the Milken Institute in Los Angeles as well as the German Union of Family Entrepreneurs (Die Familienunternehmer), Global Bridges e.V. ,  the Atlantic Initiative, the Atlantic Community,  and the German-Russian Forum e.V.

Arnulf was honored as a Knight of the Order Alexander the Great with the Order 'Pour le Mérite' for his philantrophy and  support of the arts by funding artists both in music (Ensemble Luminus, Young Artists Bayreuth, Ossia Symphony Orchestra) and sculpture through the Europäische Kultur Stiftung.