Jutta Horstmann

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

Bonn, Germany

Experience

Jan 2024 - Present
1 year 3 months
Zellingen, Germany

Chief Executive Officer (Interim)

Mailvelope GmbH

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

  • Business strategy and development
  • Product strategy
  • Professionalization
  • Hiring
Jan 2022 - Present
2 years 3 months
Berlin, Germany

Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board

wechange eG

Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years
Berlin, Germany

Chief Technology Officer

eyeo GmbH

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
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
3 years
Houston, United States

Member of the Advisory Board

Adblock Inc

Jan 2019 - Dec 2023
5 years
Berlin, Germany

Chief Operating Officer

eyeo GmbH

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
Jan 2016 - Dec 2019
2 years
Berlin, Germany

Head of Filters

eyeo GmbH

  • Achieved the most important company goal, successfully tackling ad-blocker circumvention
  • Built, led and scaled the new Filters department
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
2 years
Bonn, Germany

Consultant

Data in Transit GmbH

  • Led large-scale IT consulting projects for Aldi, Aktion Mensch, Daimler, DFL, Nestlé, Verisure
Jan 2005 - Dec 2015
10 years
Bonn, Germany

Founder and CEO / Managing Director

Data in Transit GmbH

I founded Data in Transit in 2006, offering software development, database development, IT consulting, strategy consulting, and user-centered design to both corporates and public sector.

  • Bootstrapped from zero to a well-established provider of software and consulting solutions
  • Built a team of 15 (50% women) and a portfolio of high-profile public and private sector clients: ADAC, ARD/ZDF, BfN, Bundesrechnungshof, DHL, Postbank, Telekom (among others)

Languages

German
Native
English
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2023 - Jun 2023

Cambridge University

Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Oct 1999 - Jun 2005

Technical University

Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) · Computer Sciences · Berlin, Germany

Oct 1995 - Jun 2000

Free University

Diploma (M.A. equivalent) · Political Sciences · Berlin, Germany