Nov 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

• UnitPlus combines the benefits and simplicity of money as a means of payment with the return potential of the capital market. Unused money is automatically invested from a reference account and can be used as a payment thanks to our "pay-with-portfolio" mechanism. As a result, your money always stays productive, and you invest in an effortless but optimal way.

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Our mission is to educate and empower the change makers of tomorrow.
• For this we build a university designed for effective learning with a global community.
• Programs include
• Impact MBA programs in Sustainable Business Transformation, Responsible Entrepreneurship & Tech, Climate Leadership, Green Energy, Tech & AI, Green Marketing & Innovation, Design Your Own Impact Journey, New Work 6 Organizational Psychology
• Master of Science in Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Technology in partnership with the WU Executive Academy
• B.A. in Responsible Entrepreneurship
• B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence & Sustainable Technologies‍
• Impact Degree in GreenTech in partnership with RWTH Aachen
• Open Challenges (intensive 3 week programs focusing on a specific subject area)
• Our corporate partners include startups and global leaders.
• Join us, learn and grow the relevant competencies and your network in line with your purpose.

May 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Co-Creating a better future. Corporate venture building for climate and health. Operating in Europe, MENA and Asia.

Apr 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Berlin

• World's largest pre-seed startup accelerator.
• Now, more than ever, we need entrepreneurs to build the future, and the Founder Institute Virtual program is here to help.

Apr 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Berlin, Germany

• SPRK is determined to build a world without unnecessary waste. By creating a circular economy.

Feb 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Hamburg, Germany

• Building a sustainable and digital banking platform

May 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 10 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Supporting and investing amazing founders in HealthTech, FinTech and EdTech for a better tomorrow.

May 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• A healthier life is a happier life. Vivy elevates this mission into a new reality for everyone. With its holistic approach, Vivy empowers users and transforms them from being passive patients to proactive individuals who are in charge of their own health. Within a single, integrated application, Vivy is the one place for users to consolidate medical documents and health data, adhering to the highest standards of data protection and encryption technology.
• Establishing long term contracts with 33 public insurances and 4 private insurances enabling 19,7 mio user free access to the vivy app.
• Developing the vivy health assistant, including a full health record, health assessment, insurance services and a AI assistant.
• Launch of Vivy, becoming #1 in the AppStore and 1# in the PlayStore
• Pioneer digital health compliance with authorities

Aug 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• Responsibility for Product & Technology (Product Management, UX, Engineering, Data Science, DevOps, Office IT, Cyber Security), 60 people
• Successful raising Series B of 40 Mio USD (Horizon Ventures, Battery Ventures…)
• Obtaining a full bank license in Germany
• Achieving the fastest growing bank in Germany without paid Marketing
• Creating payment platform to enable SEPA transfers within 35 countries
• Leveraging streaming and data science (nlp, ai) to create smarter banking
• Launching successful products in finance
• (N26 Investment in cooperation with Vaamo, worldwide transfer with TransferWise,
• Cash26 to withdraw/deposit cash at merchants with Barzahlen).
• Launching in 17 Markets in 5 different languages (all countries with the €uro)
• Full migration of all customers from Wirecard to N26 Bank system
• Sponsorship by IBB of 700k for innovative fraud prevention leveraging AI and loc.-data

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Berlin

• Responsibility for product strategy and technology architecture incl. standards
• Successful launch in Germany achieving record donations in the first month
• From idea to market MVP within 3 months validating the idea
• Leading the product development (Mobile, Web, Backend)
• Responsible for product operations (availability, scalability, security)

Nov 2012 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Berlin

• Help publishers to monetize and advertisers to drive sales. I am driving this with a platform to work effective together, independently benchmark and track success.
• Responsible board member for Product & Technology for the Zanox Group (Zanox Network, Affiliate Window, Metrigo, EProfessional). Leading Product & Technology of Zanox (Product Management UX, Engineering, IT Operations, Office IT, Network Quality), 100 people.
• Increased gross profit by improved tracking technologies (fingerprinting).
• Increase of platform performance and availability by optimizations
• Reduction of licensing cost by consolidation of servers and switch to open source
• Start Data Science Team to leverage data of Zanox network
• Governance of all tech units of the Zanox group. Standardizing reports and steering.
• Setup of Kanban to reduce lead times
• Change to customer centricity in all areas (IT, Product, Development)

Sep 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hamburg Area, Germany

• Responsible for Product Management, Scientific Research and IT (Engineering, QA, Operations, Delivery Management).
• Delivering major product enhancements (e.g. relaunch of mobile web to increase activity of user, Enhancement of Profile to drive quality, setup of conversion initiative to increase sales, leveraging gamification to drive activity)
• Improving Time-To-Market by Continuous Deployment
• Setup of agile organization driven by Delivery Management based on transparency applying Scrum, Kanban and Agile Product Management to speed up development time and quality
• Improving availability by ITILv3 and DevOps approach
• Optimization of operation cost while increase flexibility utilizing hybrid cloud approach

Jul 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Vienna

• Responsible for Product Management and IT (Software Development, Dwh, System Operations and System Administration) at Immobilien.net (Today Immobilienscout24 Austria)
• Leading Agile Vision-Strategy
• Target Alignment Process incl. KPI’s
• Implementing Scrum as business driven software development process
• Introducing ITILv3 (System Operation)
• Datacenter Outsourcing
• Defining Enterprise Target Architecture Process
• Innovation with Partners within Cloud Computing
• Setting Software Development Maturity (Process, Guidelines, Continuous Build, etc.)
• Publishing case study with Microsoft to prove scaling from onsite service to the cloud

Mar 2008 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Functional & Disciplinary Leadership for 6 Software Development Teams (Portal, CMS, Core Services, CSM, Mobile, Community), 37 international people
• Setup of near shoring location in Romania
• Delivering more than 100 software releases in time/scope/budget
• Improving velocity by 25% by increasing code quality (continuous build, security, etc.)
• Ensuring 99,8%+ availability of delivered services
• Successful recruitment and relocation of staff from east Europe
• PCI certification for mobile applications
• Achieving regulatory compliancy in France and Italy for web and mobile products
• Major reduction of onboarding time across 3 locations by setting up training process for Dev

Oct 2005 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Functional & Disciplinary Leadership for 1 and later 2 teams (New Distribution Channels and Core Services), 10 people
• Introduction of Scrum at bwin in Wireless Team. Later supporting to scale Scrum to the complete IT.
• Development of the mobile internet portal servicing all products deeply integrated with mobile operators (e.g. Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange)
• Development of mobile messaging platform allowing to place bets via SMS and interactive large-scale SMS promotions
• Development of mobile transaction API enabling 3rd parties to build games based on bwin account
• Setup of Core Services team delivering the core transaction, customer and authentication components
• Ensure knowledge transportation to scale on organizational level and manage the truck factor

Jul 2001 – Sep 2005 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Insourcing the software development and migrating the VB applications to .net
• Relaunch of sportsbook product for world cup and continuous improving to ensure user experience / performance while scaling
• Development of a flexbile scalable high available ad technologie enabling cooperations with affiliates and partners to aquire customers. In 2009 several billion adverts per month
• Main technologies: Html, Javascript, Xml, Asp.net, C#, MSSQL

Sep 2001 – Apr 2008 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Vienna

Jun 2000 – Sep 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Developing ad technology
• Creating media trading platform MatchMaker
• Implementing innovative ajax adverts and delivering them for major campaigns
• Main technologies: Perl, PHP, Asp, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, html, JavaScript

Oct 1997 – Sep 2001 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Vienna

• Founder, CEO and Developer
• Sold company 2000 and stayed as consultant until March 2009
• Projects (excerpt)
• Allianz, Online portal and insurance calculator
• Bawag, Online shop with payment method DirectPay
• Gastroweb, Web and mobile online guide for restaurants
• Webauditorium GmbH, Unique Measurement Technology and Statistic Engine
• DealAssist, Reverse Auction focused on European Union
• Observer - Media observation, Enterprise solution
• MCN – Large portal system incl. content management system
• Further on exciting e-commerce and web solutions (e.g. One, Scienceweek, Linguaviva, Perpedes, Ars, etc.)
• Main technologies: Perl, PHP, Asp, VB6, Mod_Perl, C, .net, MSSQL, MySQL, html, JavaScript