Experience
Aug 2016 - Present
9 years 2 months
- Co-founding Ampolon Ventures, a company builder / CVC, specializing in PropTech with €30m. under management
- Interim VP Growth at eQuota, driving gross merchandise volume from go-to-market to 8 digits in 15 months
- Interim EiR at a construction tech scale-up, finding product-market-fit for new products; restructuring it for the pandemic
- Coaching several corporate startups to product-market-fit, among them a well-known car subscription service
- Interim MD Germany & VP Marketing at Juicy Marbles, planning market entry to GER and growing UK, SWE revenue
- Evaluating and building new ventures for corporate clients (all sizes from DAX to SMEs and startups)
- Setting up business development, marketing & HR departments, teams, processes, and operations in several industries
- C1/2 level interim management: marketing, business development, internationalization, recruiting, fundraising, PM
- Driving organizational development to enable scalability for early- and growth-stage companies
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
1 year
- Guest lecturing in course “Marketing and Entrepreneurship“
- Topic: European Expansion & International Marketing
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
1 year 4 months
- Disrupting mobility in 13 countries and driving revenues from zero to a high eight-digit number within 1,5 years
- Responsible for and managing all international marketing activities out of GAS (17 countries)
- Expanding to 13 European countries and building marketing and sales channels from scratch
- Recruiting teams of head of’s, managers, and interns in company HQ and local daughter companies
- Leading a team of up to 60 people as a staff-unit-manager with 7 directs; reporting to VP Marketing and MDs
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years
- Guest lecturing in course “Digital Marketing Management”
- Topics: „Data Driven Venture Creation” & „Digital Business Modelling“
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
2 years
- Lecturing course “Entrepreneurship and Growth Management“ (European Master in Management, M.Sc.)
- Topic: Venture Creation (in co-operation with Deloitte Digital)
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
1 year
- EIT ICT Labs Idea Challenge - Siemens New Venture Forum
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
1 year
- Android Wear Track (Google Stage)
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
2 years 3 months
- Developing and executing fundraising strategies for LMU EC and German Accelerator in the USA
- Setting up innovation infrastructure and international partnerships (USA, UK, France, Portugal, Israel)
- Developing and selling products – closed deals with several Fortune 500 companies
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
2 years 3 months
- Managing one of Germany’s top early-stage startup incubators; portfolio value +8,0bn €; +3,000 jobs created
- Building an international stakeholder network: +250 startups, +300 investors, corporates, entrepreneurs
- Incubating +80 startups from selection to investor readiness; industries et. al. mobility, renewable energy, technology, insurance, logistics
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
2 years
- Billion Dollar Projects to Foster Societal Change
Nov 2011 - Sep 2012
11 months
- Assisting projects in pre-sales, fundraising, content creation, deal flow and partner management
Sep 2010 - Jan 2011
5 months
- Programmed an internal website for gaming guidelines in HTML and CSS for the use of marketing employees
- Led online marketing activities for promoting a video game with performance and social media marketing
- Responsible for website administration and project management for video game promotion