Ortwin Kartmann

Business & Tech Consultant

Ortwin Kartmann
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Experience

Jan 2022 - Dec 9999
7978 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Business & Tech Consultant

OK Venture GmbH

  • Developing go-to-market strategies to achieve product-market fit
  • Challenging and improving the product roadmap with a focus on real customer needs
  • Scaling and coaching of software development teams (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
  • Increasing the speed & quality of tech teams
  • Enhancing product demos & sales pitches
  • Implementing KPIs (key performance indicators) and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
  • Development and implementation of use cases on how AI makes the product better
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
4 years
Butzbach, Germany

Founder & Co-CEO

Shopgate GmbH

  • Responsible for the German market
  • Extended product offering with omnichannel services
  • Played a more active part in fundraising and investor relations and secured a new funding round
Jan 2017 - Dec 9999
7983 years
Frankfurt, Germany

Founder & Managing Director

OK Venture GmbH

  • Management of investments and assets
Jan 2009 - Dec 2019
11 years
Butzbach, Germany

Founder & CPO/CTO

Shopgate GmbH

  • Main responsible for strategic roadmap planning & development of the platform
  • Established a highly efficient agile development environment (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
  • Hired more than 100 tech talents (Product Owner, Architects, Developers, DevOps, QA Tester, etc.)
  • Automated every single process within the organization
  • Established KPIs for the product and OKRs for the entire company
  • Developed a highly available SaaS platform for mobile commerce websites and shopping apps
  • Delivered the service to more than 5000 merchants with millions of products and customers
  • Developed plugins for almost all shopping cart systems and integrations with more than 50 payment providers
  • Tripled revenue every year in the first years and doubled it later
  • Achieved a significantly higher conversion rate (up to 40%) for mobile websites than for responsive websites
  • Achieved a retention rate in shopping apps twice as high as on the website
Jan 2009 - Dec 2010
2 years
Salzburg, Austria

Co-Founder & CPO/CTO

Tibidono Handelsinnovationen GmbH

  • Defined the product strategy and developed the MVP
  • Hired and coached a strong tech team
  • Managed security audits to get listed in all SPAR supermarkets across Austria
  • Completed the SPAR listing within 12 months after project start, including updating all POS systems
  • Maintained a constant high availability of >99.99%
  • Onboarded over 20 customers presenting their gift cards in SPAR stores
  • Hired a replacement for the operational position after successful SPAR listing
  • Sold shares to InComm in 2015
Jan 2008 - Dec 2012
5 years
Butzbach, Germany

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Simty GmbH

  • Developed the first iPhone & Android app for buying parking tickets
  • Reduced the time to buy a parking ticket from 3-5 minutes to an average of 30 seconds (including launching the app)
  • Implemented a smart mapping service for allocation of parking zones to parking rates (based on GPS coordinates)
  • Implemented a fully automated billing and payment system
  • Scaled the company to >25,000 parking tickets per month
  • Launched the service in 15 cities in Germany and Austria
Jan 2004 - Dec 2009
6 years
Munich, Germany

Co-Founder, Inventor Sofortüberweisung & CPO/CTO

Sofortüberweisung / Payment Network AG

  • Invented the payment method Sofortüberweisung
  • Created the first logo for the new payment method
  • Developed the MVP within 3 months with a very small team
  • Hired and managed a strong tech team for product & development
  • Owned the roadmap and all development activities
  • Reached product-market fit within 2-3 years after launch
  • Reduced costs for online merchants by more than 60% compared to credit cards and 40% compared to prepayment
  • Fully automated the payment process for merchants
  • Reduced warehousing costs by shipping products faster
  • Enabled online customers to receive products 1-2 days earlier
  • Improved onboarding time for new customers from 2-3 weeks to 1-2 days
Jan 2000 - Dec 2004
5 years
Butzbach, Germany

Co-Founder & Managing Director

People.de Network GmbH

  • Created an internet community with more than 500,000 active users
  • Developed the first version of online coaching through nachhilfe.net
  • Created a music-sharing platform mp3lieder.de
  • Created an online shopping network (shopping55.de) with >€1m in revenue per month
Jan 1997 - Dec 2000
4 years

Founder

referate.de

  • Built the most popular website for students
  • Learned by doing: coding, analyzing, improving, repeating
  • Published over 5,000 papers & homework from 23 school subjects
  • Achieved more visits than Spiegel Online in 1998

Summary

As a seasoned tech entrepreneur and consultant, my career has been defined by pioneering digital transformation and pushing the boundaries of innovation.

With a strong entrepreneurial spirit, I seek freelance opportunities that leverage my extensive experience in business development, technology, and startup growth.

I aim to contribute to projects with significant impact, leveraging my expertise to drive growth and success in challenging and high-stakes environments.

Skills

  • Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • Hands-on Mentality
  • Business Development & Strategy
  • Product Management Excellence
  • Advanced Technical Acumen
  • Agile Management & Leadership
  • E-commerce & Payment Expertise
  • Artificial Intelligence Integration

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2004 - Jun 2009

THM

Diploma · Business Informatics · Friedberg, Germany · 1.0

Oct 1991 - Jun 2000

Weidigschule

Abitur (German high school diploma), major in math and physics · Butzbach, Germany

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