Uwe Sandner
CTO | Business Builder | Strategy Consultant
Experience
CTO
finleap connect
Reporting to the CEO, disciplinary leadership of 75 FTEs.
Finleap Connect is one of leading, independent OpenBanking SaaS provider in EU and MENA and a regulated payment institution under the Payment Services Supervision Act (ZAG) active in several European markets.
- Leading the technology and engineering team. Responsible for all engineering, IT Strategy, and IT operations (75 FTE in 4 countries, 8M budget)
- Leading the technology part in acquisitions, financing rounds, and post-merger integrations
- Providing bank connectivity via PSD2, Scraping, and premium APIs in several markets (EU and MENA)
- Offering Account Information Services (AIS), Payment Initiation Services (PIS), and data enrichment (categorisation, contract recognition, insights, risk indicators)
- Building several complete B2B2C white label neo banking solutions based on external core banking
- Running the market leading Account and Portfolio Switching Service
- Operating a private hybrid cloud in a regulated environment across several datacentres (bare-metal, AWS, GCP, client side)
Digital Expert Associate Partner
McKinsey & Company
Reporting to the Managing Director Germany, functional leadership of consulting teams.
Built new digital units and transformed existing organizations to capture new value from digital. Helped creating products, experiences, and businesses through new capabilities.
- Built a digital innovation hub and delivery team
- Interim manager for a digital organization
- Restructured a digital delivery unit as part of a digital transformation
- Introduced digital tools, agile and design thinking in a digital transformation
- Developed new products based on design thinking
CTO
Movinga
Reporting to the CEO, disciplinary leadership of 40 FTEs.
Movinga is a B2B2C marketplace for moving companies.
- Created a digital solution that allows customers to book moves on the internet and partners to conduct these moves. Helped in turning around the business model from a phone sale driven approach with minimal technology usage to a tech based, online sales business resulting in significant new funding.
- Automated processes to reduce human work and increase efficiency while increasing overall quality and customer satisfaction, leading to positive unit economics
- Build the technology, product, and data team, hiring a team of 40 FTE
Director Product and Technology
Ströer Digital Group
Reporting to the COO of Ströer KGaA, functional leadership of 80 FTEs.
Responsible for strategic product development and software development for all Ströer Digital product with a global team of 80 FTEs.
- Restructured product and engineering teams to maximize output, tackle tech debt, and increase delivery speed
- Consolidated the development roadmap of three subsidiaries, leading to 30% cost reduction
- Development of a joint software solution for the core business of all subsidiaries of Ströer Digital Group leading to additional EBITDA of 5% p.a.
Managing Director and CTO
Ströer Mobile Media
Reporting to the COO of Ströer KGaA, disciplinary leadership of 20 FTEs.
Responsible for technology, product, and operations, leading all internal processes for delivering advertising campaigns to customers.
- Average revenue growth of 180% p.a.
- Integrated existing technology stack and development team into Ströer Digital Group products and teams
Founder and Managing Director (CTO)
servtag
Managing Director, disciplinary leadership of 20 FTEs.
Founded a start-up for mobile marketing, responsible for product, technology, and operations. Pivoted the business model and product before selling the company. Coded the technology core, built and led a development team of 10 developers.
- Raised several million Euro venture capital and sold the company to Ströer Media SE
- Developed a leading adserver for location based mobile advertising
Project Coordinator and Research Fellow
Center for Digital Technology and Management at TU München
Reporting to the Board of Directors, functional leadership of 5 FTEs.
Coordination of research and teaching at a joint institute of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Technische Universität München. Acquisition, planning, and implementation of research projects in the areas of IoT, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communication (NFC).
Summary
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Education
University of California at Berkeley
Information Management and Systems · United States
Center for Digital Technology and Management
Honorary Degree · Technology Management · Germany · 1.3
Technische Universität München
Diploma · Computer Science · Germany · 1.2
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