About
I work at the intersection of technology, open internet, identity, digital sovereignty, SaaS and innovation cultures. Today, I serve as Managing Director; Chief Growth Officer at VisualVest (Union Investment Group), where I lead innovation, marketing and product management, driven by user-centric thinking, bold experimentation and a Build–Measure–Learn mindset. I am a Supervisory Board Member at Open-Xchange, the world’s largest independent email and communication ecosystem with more than 220 million users. One of my ventures is ID4me AISBL, a Brussels-based non-profit advocating for an open internet and user-controlled digital identity. Before entering the fintech space, I spent more than 15 years in international tech and SaaS leadership roles, including global Product Marketing responsibility at IONOS. Earlier in my career, I helped build and scale the SaaS/eCommerce company asknet across Karlsruhe, San Francisco and Tokyo. I joined pre-IPO and was part of the journey that took the…
Experience
Managing Director & Chief Growth Officer | Innovation · Product · Marketing | Sustainability
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Cmo - Innovation I Product I Marketing I Sustainability
Founder
DigitalMarketExpert · Where my customers are
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DigitalMarket.Expert I have been in the Tech Industry since 2003 with a strong focus on the Cloud Industry and global eCommerce. I founded DigitalMarketExpert in 2014. My mission is to empower value-driven organizations to achieve their goals. DigitalMarketExpert successfully advises Start-ups, Enterprises and NGOs. A proven track record and a great network to build digital business across the markets in Europe, U.S.A., Latin America and Japan. Speaker at DLD Conference, eCommerce Conference, Hosting&Service Provider Summit, Webinale, Webtech, Meet ups like FinTech Aviv and many more.
General Manager
ID4me AISBL · Brussels Area, Belgium
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ID4me AISBL is a non-profit organization founded in 2018 in Brussels, Belgium, with the goal to promote a federated approach to Single Sign-On and Digital Identity Management. ID4me stands for an open Internet providing a globally available, open, federated, secure and privacy-friendly Single Sign-On protocol, which fully adheres to applicable data protection and security standards. The protocol is domain-based, using the Internet’s hierarchical naming system DNS as its underlying identifier technology, and combining it with the well-established OpenID Connect and OAuth standards into a unique solution. The founding members of ID4me are 1&1 IONOS SE (https://www.ionos.com/), DENIC eG (https://www.denic.de/en/) and Open-Xchange AG (https://www.open-xchange.com/).
Angel Investor
Team Sprind
Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen
The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND helps radical new ideas and technologies that make all our lives noticeably better to achieve a breakthrough. We support "high potentials" from research institutions, universities and industry with money and know-how before, during and after their company formation so that they can successfully bring their inventions to market. “Made in Germany 2.0:” We create a spirit of optimism in Germany and Europe – working together to generate economic benefits that come to life here in Germany and help secure our future prosperity. The projects with our support promote European solutions in digitalization or accelerate groundbreaking innovations in the fields of life sciences, environmental technologies and sustainability.
Vp Marketing, Sales & Business Development
Digital & Cloud Commerce Intelligent on demand solutions and comprehensive full services for world-class digital and cloud commerce in all regions of the world; North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. asknet is one of the leading global eCommerce service providers headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, with offices in San Francisco, USA and Tokyo, Japan.
Head of International Product Marketing Management Applications
International Product Marketing Management in DE, AT, UK, FR, ES, IT, USA, CA, Launch in Mexico
Education
Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
Diploma, Economics
Universidad de Málaga
Erasmus Semester, Diploma Economics
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