About
Building and running a start-up is hard work, but it's a great opportunity to bring all my skills and talents to the arena, wearning many hats and getting my hands dirty. It's also a constant reminder to focus on what matters. There is no runway to spare, and each and every measure must be challenged for the value it delivers to users and customers. But first and foremost, it's about building a great team. My passion is leadership, and how to get it right. Building the right culture for long-lasting outperformance is the key to create an excellent company that both customers and employees love. With experience in many fields - IT, Product, Marketing, Security, Compliance, among others - I enjoy every opportunity to apply my knowledge, help people and organizations develop and still learn something new along the way. This includes venturing into new industries or doing things outside my comfort zone, because this is where growth happens.
Experience
Chief Operating Officer
WunderGraph · Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Present
Building a start-up and enjoying wearing many hats, such as Marketing, Finance, Information Security, HR, Legal, Investor Relations and running day-to-day operations. Strict focus on what moves the needle, iterating and learning fast.
Chief Digital Officer
univativ Management GmbH · Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
univativ Group needed to get back onto the fast growth track, and digital transformation was the key. In just six months, we introduced Salesforce and SAP, and redesigned most of the candidate journey processes to delight our users. Facilitating change was a challenge, especially during Covid where the organization had to learn to work remotely over night. On the tech side, we introduced a homegrown API back-end (today I would use WunderGraph :) and a cloud-based infrastructure instead of bare metal. Last, but not least I had the pleasure of also filling the CISO role, facilitating general security / privacy audits based on ISO 27001 as well as achieving VDA ISA 5.x certification ("TISAX").
Ceo
Ströer Digital Publishing GmbH · Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
Ströer Digital Publishing runs t-online.de, Germany's larget news portal. My responsibilities as CEO included introducing and fostering an agile culture (OKR, Scrum) and Agile Management, restructuring, organizational development, Sales and Marketing. Thanks to Ströer's powerful out of home advertising network, t-online.de now implements a unique channel mix that makes the news portal a truly omnichannel experience.
Head of Digital Commerce Central Europe
Thomas Cook AG · Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany
eCommerce Central Europe included the teams for online marketing, portal management and digital projects. Together with my teams we created Thomas Cook's most integrated and technically advanced OTA platform that supports more individual (multi-language, multi-currency) markets than any other solution within Thomas Cook, as well as different suppliers (e.g. Peakwork, Traveltainment). Additional highlights were meta searcher integrations, social media campaigns and the introduction of a dynamic attribution model, just to name a few. Besides these duties, I focused on driving digital transformation and establishing a customer-centric view within the organization.
Head of Technical Programme Management
Thomas Cook AG · Oberursel
Shaping the digital transformation of the world's first leisure travel company. Running UX, Web Analytics, Project and Program Management teams, CallCenter Relations for all eCommerce activities in the CE region. Part of the ThomasCook Innovation Team. Promoting agile and lean methodologies for an ever stronger customer focus.
Head of Product Expert Teams
AutoScout24 · Munich, Germany
Managing the departments UI/UX, Design, Web Analytics, Content Solutions, Customer Care in a highly agile environment; interfacing with and mediating between Marketing, Sales, Product teams, IT, stakeholders. Developing and implementing the international anti-fraud strategy; introducing customer-value driven development based on Eric Ries' "lean startup" approach in the Product Management organization.
Ceo
EVALUBA AG · Böblingen
Developing EVALUBA into a major brand for employer ratings, building the management team, setting the agenda for the upcoming years.
Head of Business and Product Development
yasni GmbH · Frankfurt, Germany
yasni - global leader in people search technology.
Director, Global Product Delivery
Monster Technologies, Inc. · Eschborn
Project management, team management, portal strategy and development, international collaboration and leadership. Special focus on data and feature migration projects.
Head of Business Systems, Solutions and Jobpilot Website
Monster Worldwide Deutschland GmbH · Eschborn
International Website Manager
jobpilot GmbH · Bad Homburg
Education
Hochschule Furtwangen
Dipl.-Inf. (FH), IT and Media
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