About
How will disruption change our life? From an Idea to a Startup to Corporate Innovation. Founder of several startups. Investment manager at VCs. Business Angel since 15+ years. Specialties: Disruptive business models, transformation, entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, startups.
Experience
Advisory Board - Beirat (Xetra: Ca1)
Circus Group · Hamburg, Germany
Present
WE ARE: Leading innovator AI, AI software and robotics solutions in the food service industry. WE AIM: Defining a new, multi-trillion global market. LISTINGS: Circus Group is listed in MSCI's Global Micro Cap Index and on German Xetra: CA1.
Ceo, Investment Partner and Owner
S.A.V.E. AG - Strategy Consulting, VC & Equity Investments · Hamburg Area, Germany
Present
INVESTING: From angel to impact – 20+ years of seed/ early-stage investing in digital startups. CONSULTING: Guiding CEOs and boards with 25 years of global strategy & transformation expertise.
Ventures Lead Europe (Managing Director / Gf)
Accenture · Hamburg, Germany
WE AIM: Investing in Edge/ Game-changing / NextGen / Data-driven technologies that will redefine how we live, work and produce
Transformation & Venture Building Lead (Managing Director / Gf)
Accenture · Hamburg, Germany
WE AIM: From bold ideas to proven solutions WE DO: Shaping ideas. Incubate. Testing reality. Scaling impact.
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
dgroup - Europe’s Leading Digital Transformation Consultancy (2016 sold to Accenture) · Hamburg Area, Germany
WE AIM: Building business in a digital world. WE DO: Where digital transformation meets entrepreneurship. Digital strategies executed.
Senior Investment Principal - Cee Investments
Headline · Hamburg Area, Germany and San Francisco, USA
OUR AIM: A builder behind the builders | Turning GTM puzzles into growth engines FORMERLY: e.ventures - "Truly Global Digital Venture Firm. Five Local Funds. One Global Team" LEGACY: Launched in the US (1998). Opened Germany (2001), Russia (2009), Asia (2009), Brazil (2012).
Co-Founder / Co-Owner
4G WINE ESTATE - Africa‘s Best Red Wine · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
WE AIM: A world-class wine from South Africa WE DO: Combining the best terroirs "of the Cape" with "Old World" world-class wine-making expertise.
Managing Partner and Cfo
Theron Advisory Group · Cologne Area, Germany
WE ARE: Top management advisory for global corporations. Truly Cross-Country. WE DO: Proven Expertise (McKinsey Spinoff). Only senior advisory. Board strategies, transformation and new business models. FOCUS: Mobile Ops & Telco, CMT, and Private Equity.
Senior Manager Corporate Strategy
Otto (GmbH & Co KG) · Hamburg Area, Germany
OUR AIM: Strategic advisory for OTTO board members MY ROLE: Strategic advisor and supervisory role in portfolio management @OTTO group OTTO: Europe's largest multichannel retailer. Brands include OTTO, Limango, BAUR & 50+ retailers. VALUE CHAIN: Fully integrated. From retail to logistics (Hermes), to receivables mgt (EOS), financing (Cofidis), banking, insuring - OTTO is providing services along the entire retail value chain. PRESENCE: 40+countries.
Head of Investment / Otto Venture Capital
OTTO Venture Capital - member of the Otto Group · Hamburg Area, Germany
WE AIM: Investing in tech and digital. Connecting to commerce. Scaling with OTTO. WE DO: From seed to scale – with Europe’s commerce leader. Leverage real market power.
Co-Founder and Head of Investment (Bd and M&a)
ProXchange GmbH · Paris Area, France and London, UK
WE ARE: Europe's #1 B2B used asset marketplace funded by Europ@Web: 30+ countries WE DO: We connect global companies with trusted marketplaces for surplus and used industrial assets — efficiently, securely, and at scale. VALUE CHAIN: From machinery to complete plants, we turn idle equipment into real business value. Covering the entire value chain from deconstruction, logistics, insuring, auditing, engineering, build up.
Co-Founder and Director Operations, M&a
Tradera · Stockholm, Sweden
WE AIM: Getting #1 B2C internet auctions in Scandinavia MY ROLE: Started as co-founder. Developed company from zero to 80 employees. Scale into proof. WE DID: Grown from a garage company in Gamla Stan to Swedens largest internet auction house. NEW OWNER: Sold to IT Provider VC fund in 2000 and to Ebay Inc. in 2006.
Education
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Dipl. Kfm. (Master of BA), Business Administration and Economics
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