Simon Sommer - CEO and Co-Founder

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Munich, Germany

Experience

May 2023 - Present

2 years 9 months

CEO and Co-Founder

DISO Ventures

Set up DISO Ventures as an “AI Builder”, leveraging corporate venture building expertise and generative AI capabilities.
Business development, acquisition, and project management with multiple clients as well as key account & senior stakeholder management.
Delivered several projects from German Mittelstand up to DAX 40.
Developed proof of concept for an AI sales solution for a company in the pharmaceutical industry.
Excerpt client references: on request.

Nov 2021 - Apr 2023

1 year 6 months

Munich, Germany

COO

Hypercampus

Leading the operations for an investor-funded education startup offering advanced training online for future IT system administrators specifically for the healthcare industry.
Optimized business crucial KPIs continuously by introducing new software systems and automations that led to a significant sales efficiency increase per day per employee by decreasing the time spent through automations.
Responsible for product, teaching, customer success, IT & quality management and grew the company from 19 to ca. 40 employees.

Oct 2018 - Sep 2021

3 years

Munich, Germany

Venture Architect & Interim-CEO for corporate ventures

Stryber

Established stand-alone innovation unit for one of the biggest retailers in Switzerland from innovation strategy to MVP phase and M&A consulting.
Led start-ups as interim CEO/COO with responsibility for business building, operations, product, legal, budget and stakeholder management.
Conducted several VC investment theses (e.g. banking and insure and e-commerce).
Validated over 20 business models including customer interviews and research.
Evaluated new expansion opportunities for a leading VC-funded Swiss start-up.
Built 4 ventures (FinTech, e-commerce, logistics).
Managed full venture teams of up to 5 people (growth marketer, product owner, designer).
Developed VC investment thesis for one of the retailer’s portfolio companies, including M&A strategies.

May 2018 - Sep 2018

5 months

Hamburg, Germany

Financial Services Technology Consulting

PwC

Supported test management and project management office in the subproject 'Bank Control' for post merger integration of two financial institutions.
Created and prepared bi-weekly testing status reports for management.
Provided central support of the test management software SAP Solution Manager, including creation of test plans, test packages and test cases.
Executed technical tests for connection of credits from SAP CML to market risk systems on a Linux server and evaluated data with Microsoft Access.
Developed a project controlling tool in Microsoft Excel and Python with connection to the customer-specific project management tool.
Supported and independently executed customer meetings in finance, risk controlling and liquidity risk modules including preparation and post-processing.

Apr 2016 - Mar 2019

3 years

Augsburg, Germany

CEO and Co-Founder

Consult&

Business development, acquisition, and execution of multiple consulting projects with full P&L responsibility (226 paid consulting days).
Excerpt client references: on request.

Aug 2015 - May 2018

2 years 10 months

Augsburg, Germany

Independent Business Analyst

Stryber

Conducted analyses supporting the acquisition and elaboration of digital strategy for Stryber’s first company building client.
Performed research and analysis contributing to the success of several digital consulting projects.

May 2015 - Sep 2016

1 year 5 months

Augsburg, Germany

Student Research Assistant

Research Center Finance & Information Management (FIM)

System administration and responsibility of IT infrastructure and cloud strategy of FIM, including administration of Office 365 system.

Summary

Extensive experience in leading projects, teams and managing senior stakeholders. Involved in setting up an innovation unit for one of the largest corporations in Switzerland, managed operations for an investor-funded startup, and founded two companies. Strong acumen for data-driven work, optimizing processes with digital tools, KPI-driven controlling, and bachelor’s degree in business informatics.

Skills

Project Management
Senior Stakeholder Management
Corporate Innovation
Generative Ai
Process Automation & Optimization
Team Leadership
Python Programming (Focus Data Analytics)
Business Intelligence (Tableau, Power Bi)
Reporting & Investor Relations (Pitch Decks, Financial Planning, Market Analysis, Etc.)
Product Management

Methods

Corporate Venture Building
Lean Startup
Scrum
User Interviews
Smoke Tests
Market Reseach
Business Analytics
Business Case Building

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite
Thinkcell
Google Workspace
Openai Api
Webflow
Sap Solution Manager
Hubspot
Pipedrive
Jira
Confluence
Notion
Google Analytics
Zapier
Integromat
Airtable
Pandadoc
Startup Databases (Crunchbase, Pitchbook, Etc.)
Git
Docker

Administration

Google Workspace
Office 365
Notion
Slack
Linux Servers (Debian, Arch)
Unifi Hardware
Synology Nas

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 2014 - Aug 2018

University of Augsburg

Bachelor of Science, Business Informatics, Major in Finance and Information Management · Business informatics · Augsburg, Germany · 2.25

Certifications & licenses

IBM CPLEX

Microsoft Excel Expert

Microsoft Office Master

Microsoft Word Expert

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Summary

Skills

Languages

Education

University of Augsburg

Bachelor of Science, Business Informatics, Major in Finance and Information Management · Business informatics · Augsburg, Germany · 2.25

Certifications & licenses

IBM CPLEX

Microsoft Excel Expert

Microsoft Office Master

Microsoft Word Expert

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