Chris Schagen

Chief Executive Officer

Terramate · Berlin, Germany

Present

Angel Investor and Startup Advisor

· Berlin, Germany

Present

Board Member

Ninetailed · Berlin, Germany

Consultant

Contentful · Berlin, Germany

- Facilitated the transition to my wonderful successor Bridget Perry - Ensured that the team stayed committed to the new chapter in the companies development

Cmo

Contentful · Berlin Area, Germany

- Build the marketing department from scratch, with product marketing, demang generation, marketing communications, field marekting, developer relations, customer marketing, marketing operations, and partner marketing teams - Grew revenue by 100x over my tenure - Owned the lead, MQL, and pipeline ceation metrics - Positionined Contentful as clear leader in headless content management - Improved pricing & packaging in three iterations to obtain a net dollar retention > 130%

Founder & Ceo

LinkLift Ltd. · Berlin, Germany

- Established a marketplace for SEO in 5 countries DE, UK, FR, IT, ES - Grew the team to 75 employees - Raised €800k in funding - Company ultimately succumbed to Googles aggressive stance towards off-page optimization

Director Business Development

VeriSign, Inc. · Mountain View, CA

- Establishing the Jamba/Jamster wireless content services business in US - Build a $100m run rate business within 12 month after launch - Drove all marketing/B2C demand generation - Profitably deployed a digital, TV, and print campaign budget in excess of $40m - Music label and publisher content sourcing and licensing - Wireless carrier business development

Founder & Executive

Mundwerk AG

- Lead the finance and tech teams - Raised €2.4m in funding in a depressed post bubble environment - Established ASP (application service provider) model in Germany - Exited the company to a Stuttgart-based IT Consulting firm