Selected achievements and experiences
Successful exit of Parkling GmbH with sale to a joint venture of BMW and Daimler.
Serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in tech businesses. CEO, CxO and founder operationally involved in building and leading 6 startups.
Successfully led multi-million financing rounds for several of these startups.
Executing growth strategies with M&A. Acquiring, integrating, and improving companies.
Proven track record as an innovator including as an inventor on several patents.
10 years of consulting experience with top management consultancies (McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, dgroup/today part of Accenture), where I focused on digital innovation and digital transformation across different industries.
Trained yoga teacher with professional yoga teaching experience in yoga and fitness studios. Incorporating yoga philosophy to build high performance teams.
My strengths and skills
- Strategy and conception, analytical strength
- Creativity and respective methods (design thinking, rapid prototyping, lean startup)
- Product development and management (software, apps, hardware). Agile methods
- Business Development and sales for both B2B and B2C
- People leadership. Building high-performance teams and high-performance cultures
- Operational implementation, process design, KPIs and quality management, establishing and stabilizing finance processes
- Finding and leading investors, investor communications, leading funding rounds
- Seniority and informal authority with C-level and senior executives. Managing board settings and investors
- Digital transformation and innovation - working in and with established industries, companies, and corporations
Education/other
Diploma in physics and bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg (both 1.0), as well as an MPA (Masters of Public Administration) from Harvard University (A-level).
Scholarship holder from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (high school grade 1.1, valedictorian), McCloy scholarship (2 year full scholarship for Harvard) and Fulbright scholarship (1 year full scholarship for the University of California).
Former president and long-standing board member of the Harvard Club of Berlin.
