Yoram Roth (born 1968 in Berlin, Germany) is a life-long entrepreneur with a focus on the culture, community, and hospitality sectors.

Yoram is the Executive Chairman of the Board and owner of Fotografiska. The first museum opened in Stockholm in 2010. Fotografiska is the contemporary museum of photography, art, and culture. Around the core mission of exhibiting artists and photographers, Fotografiska Museums include academy classes, curated retail, bar and event spaces, and programming for the Fotografiska community members. After turning Fotografiska around from insolvency Yoram led the international expansion to multiple cities including Tallinn, New York, Berlin, Shanghai, and soon Shenzen as well as Oslo. Fotografiska continues to evaluate new partners planning to launch in major cultural hubs.

Yoram is the founder of the Berlin Hospitality Group which operates Clärchens Ballhaus in Berlin-Mitte, the city’s best-known dance hall and its restaurant Luna D’Oro, as well as Verōnika, der Kleine August, and Ember. He is a founding Collective Member of the Genossenschaft für urbane Kreativität, which created the urban alternative development Holzmarkt, and Kater Blau, one of Berlin’s most beloved night clubs.

Yoram is the lead investor in two media companies. He is the Chairman of the Tip-Berlin Group, best known for its titles Tip Magazine as well as The Berliner Magazine, Berlin’s only lifestyle and event publications, in German and English respectively. He is an investor in The Art Gorgeous, a publication platform at the intersection of art and fashion that produces branded events and experiences, and caters to its member community.

Upon the passing of his father he became CEO of Roth & Sohn GmbH, a Berlin-based company founded in 1966 by Eisig and Rafael Roth, Yoram’s grandfather and father respectively. Returning from Israel after having to flee Nazi Germany, the Roth family had hoped to regain control of its real estate properties that had been Arianized during the Third Reich. Unfortunately the properties were located in East Berlin, and thus were taken from the family a second time under the German Communist regime. Rafael Roth focused on office buildings for government entities and universities. Eisig Roth built cinemas and bowling lanes, and could be considered an early investor in location-based entertainment.

From 1997 – 2002 Yoram was the Lead Investor of RightSpring Technology, a Los Angeles-based SaaS company that developed software for the commercial licensing and delivery of photographic image and music rights. At the time he was also CEO and Founder of Rotor Communications Technology, which created software enabling the production of talk shows and game shows. Both companies are back-end technology solutions for the creative industry.

In 1991, at the age of twenty-three Yoram founded his first business. D’Vision Records, one of Berlin’s seminal record labels, releasing over thirty albums across sub-genres including Techno, Drum & Bass, and House music, while also producing raves and club events throughout Berlin.

Yoram Roth completed his Business of Mass Communications studies at Fordham University in New York in 1989. During that time he studied photography under Larry Fink. He has continued pursuing photography as an art practice, though is currently on Sabbatical while focusing on his companies. Since 2012 his work is represented by Galerie Camera Work in Berlin, one of the leading photographic art galleries. He has published three photo books thus far, the last one Nudes in Steel through teNeues Publishing. Yoram actively collects fine art photography with an emphasis on unique productions and photographic work that goes beyond the print.

Over the years Yoram has collected art with an emphasis on photography and contemporary art. The foundation has completed the founding stage, and the collection is documented and visible on a dedicated web site at roth.foundation.

He has three adult sons.