CEO (Interim) of Mailvelope * Former COO/CTO at eyeo, CEO / Founder Data in Transit GmbH

Mailvelope offers easy-to use Open Source email encryption in a B2C and B2B model.

• Business strategy and development
• Product strategy
• Professionalization
• Hiring

Led engineering, product, UX, data, and R&D (~130 people)

• Nearly tripled user base (100M to 250M), resulting in doubling of revenues (37M to 70+M €)
• Oversaw the development of the world's first AI-driven ad-filtering technology
• Introduced DevOps, automated build and testing, decreasing release cycles from >4m to <2w

eyeo builds technology that supports a fair and sustainable online value exchange between users, publishers and advertisers, leveraging ad-filtering and the Acceptable Ads standard.

Led transformation, people ops, IT ops, brand (~70 people)

• Enabled business growth after a time of stagnation, moving from a B2C to a B2B focus by diversifying, re-organizing and re-focusing business / product / software development
• Grew staff from 100 to 300 employees globally, organically and through acquisitions
• Achieved the goal of 50% women in leadership roles; increased female staff from 33% to 43%
• Achieved carbon neutrality by setting goals & policies, ESG reporting, CO2 compensation

• Led large-scale IT consulting projects for Aldi, Aktion Mensch, Daimler, DFL, Nestlé, Verisure