Uwe Sandner

CTO | Business Builder | Strategy Consultant

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
3 years 1 month

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)
Nov 2017 - Dec 2020
2 years 2 months

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
May 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 6 months

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
Mar 2015 - May 2016
1 year 3 months

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.
May 2013 - May 2016
3 years 1 month

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
May 2008 - Apr 2013
5 years

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
Jun 2004 - May 2008
4 years

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

- 15+ years of experience as CTO/CPO, Product and Engineering leader, strategy consultant - Successful manager of product, software engineering, and digital units across all dimensions including strategy, transformation, innovation, attracting and managing talent, user centric design, agile principles, product management, modern engineering, and technical infrastructure - Coach and servant leader with focus on building, scaling, and managing sustainable organizations that deliver business value based on data, trust, and transparency - Led a B2B SaaS fintech at finleap connect. Advised client in building and growing digital businesses and implementing digital transformations at McKinsey. Built and scaled a B2B2C marketplace at Movinga. Developed advertising technology at Ströer. Founded and sold a mobile tech startup

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2003 - Dec 2004

University of California at Berkeley

Information Management and Systems · United States

Oct 2001 - Jun 2003

Center for Digital Technology and Management

Honorary Degree · Technology Management · Germany · 1.3

Oct 1999 - Jun 2004

Technische Universität München

Diploma · Computer Science · Germany · 1.2

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