About
Experienced digital leader with a 22-year track record of driving growth in online and media sectors. Skilled general manager adept at crafting scalable products, cultivating and monetizing digital audiences, and spearheading the establishment and expansion of new businesses and revenue streams. Since February 2024, spearheading digital transformation and growth initiatives as CPMO for Bauer Media Group's European media portfolio within a newly formed digital organization and building a fully AI-centered new publishing platform for digital content production and distribution. Previously, joined Proptech Evernest in 2021 as a “late Co-Founder”, to drive the digitization and transformation of the European residential real estate market, scaling the organization to a team of 300 in 2 countries and 10 markets, establishing the fastest-growing tech-enabled brokerage company in Europe. Earlier, served as Managing Director at Axel Springer and BILD GmbH, overseeing all digital products, monet…
Experience
Cpmo Digital / Managing Director
Bauer Media Group · Hamburg, Deutschland
Present
Chief Product Marketing Officer / Managing Director for the digital Bauer Media Publishing portfolio overseeing P&L, brand portfolio (40 brands), revenues/monetization and M&A to drive digital transformation and growth in Germany and UK. Bauer Media is an international media business, focussed on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. The offering focusses on print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other industries. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media follows a consumer-first mindset that guides across a diverse portfolio. The workforce of 15,000 share one purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
Co-Founder / Managing Director
Evernest · Hamburg, Germany
Evernest develops and operates an AI-supported brokerage platform for real estate agents to redefine the entire process for residential transactions. With the help of its brokerage turnkey solution, smart marketing services, and AI-enabled support processes, Evernest offers a transparent and personalized experience for agents as well as property buyers and sellers. Founded in late 2019, currently more than 250 people are working for Evernest in Germany and Spain.
Founder & Managing Partner
Fleetblick Ventures · Berlin, Germany
Present
Fleetblick Ventures supports ambitious entrepreneurs to drive growth and innovation in their business. With a focus on transformative technologies and innovative business models, we provide disruptive founder teams with “smart money” as business angel and early-stage investor to help them achieve product-market fit and power through the first point of the scale. Current portfolio covers: Peec AI (AI analytics), Prematch (sports-tech), Knowunity (ed-tech), Getquin, Mintos, Crowdcube, Chip, Plum (all fintech), Gipedo (sports-tech), Along (B2B SaaS) and more.
Board of Directors (Ned)
Readly · Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Schweden
Non executive board member at the Board of Directors at Readly, listed at the Nasdaq Stockholm Midcap stock exchange. Readly is the European category leader for digital subscription services for magazines providing “all-you-can-read” access to a portfolio of more than 5,000 titles from 900 publishers worldwide, and with users in more than 50 markets,
GeschäFtsfüHrer/ Managing Director - Axel Springer Digital News Media
Axel Springer SE · Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
Managing Director for the digital activities of Axel Springer’s media brands in Germany, covering the leading news brands BILD and WELT, the special interest portals SportBILD.de, ComputerBILD.de, AutoBILD.de and various content verticals like stylebook, travelbook and techbook. Responsible for overall P&L as well as product and monetization strategy for over 15 brands across all digital platforms including advertising, subscription and commerce strategy. Axel Springer SE is a leading international media and technology company. With headquarters in Berlin, the company is active in more than 40 countries with more than 16.000 employees The media portfolio covers a variety of publishing products with leading brands as BILD, WELT and BUSINESS INSIDER. Axel Springer Digital New Media GmbH is running product, tech and commercial business for the media brands in Germany covering 60 digital products from 15 media brands including two of Europe’s most widely circulated media publications, BILD…
Managing Director / GeschäFtsfüHrer Digital Bild Group - Axel Springer Digital News Media
Axel Springer SE · Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
Managing Director for the digital activities of the BILD Group, covering the leading news brand BILD as well as the special interest brands SportBILD.de, ComputerBILD.de, AutoBILD.de and various content verticals like stylebook, travelbook and techbook. Responsible for overall P&L as well as product and monetization strategy for all brands of the group across all digital platforms including advertising, marketing and subscription strategy. BILD is the leading media brand in Germany with 10 mio. print readers per day and a digital audience of more than 25 mio. Unique Users per month as well as a strong audience across all social platforms. BILD is a pioneer in digital subscriptions with BILDplus being established as one of the leading paid content models in Europe reaching more than 700.000 paying subscriber. BILD GmbH is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, one of the leading international media and technology companies.
Education
University of Hamburg
Diplom-Kaufmann, Marketing
Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo
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