Work & Play.
I spent the last two decades (and counting) in the IT and Internet industry. Based on an education in economics and psychology at the University of Cologne, I founded an Internet startup during the first dot-com boom, grew eBay's computer category to 1bn Deutsch Marks in sales and later led eBay's Platform Solutions Group in Europe, helped ChannelAdvisor acquire a German competitor and integrated them into the organization, consulted startups across Europe on their strategy and internationalized them, co-founded an early stage Venture Capital fund in Germany and the UK, led Mozilla's innovation group Labs and created and lead Mozilla's global Open Innovation program WebFWD.
Craig Newmark (Craigslist) described me as "a social change maker to watch" and the leading German business publication WirtschaftsWoche put me on their 2012 list of the top 100 most important Internet people.
Here's a pretty complete list of my past jobs. You can also dig into my LinkedIn profile (where you also find a short bio if you need one - and here are some pictures of me).
Some people say that I suffer from ADHD. I don't – I just do a lot of stuff.
| Company: | Mozilla |
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| Title: | Director Open Innovation Group & WebFWD |
| Country: | USA |
| Info: | Mozilla's global Open Innovation Program & Accelerator |
| Company: | Mozilla |
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| Title: | Director Mozilla Labs |
| Country: | USA |
| Info: | Mozilla Innovation Group |
| Company: | FoundersLink |
|---|---|
| Title: | Venture Partner |
| Country: | UK |
| Info: | Early-Stage Venture Capital Fund & Venture Creation |
| Company: | deal united |
|---|---|
| Title: | Co-Founder & Shareholder |
| Country: | Germany |
| Info: | Pay-by-Shopping Solution Provider |
| Company: | elektronauten |
|---|---|
| Title: | Founder & Managing Partner |
| Country: | Germany & UK |
| Info: | Interim Management & Consulting Practice |
| Company: | Participatory Culture Foundation |
|---|---|
| Title: | Interim Manager Business Development Europe |
| Country: | UK |
| Info: | Open Source Media Player |
| Company: | Zlio |
|---|---|
| Title: | Strategy Consultant |
| Country: | France & Israel |
| Info: | Social Commerce |
| Company: | Seatwave |
|---|---|
| Title: | Interim Country Manager Germany |
| Country: | Germany & UK |
| Info: | Fan-to-Fan Ticket Exchange & Marketplace |
| Company: | iBOOD |
|---|---|
| Title: | Interim VP Operations |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Info: | Social Commerce / One-Deal-A-Day Site |
| Company: | ChannelAdvisor |
|---|---|
| Title: | Vice President Germany |
| Country: | Germany |
| Info: | Multichannel eCommerce Provider |
| Company: | yourART |
|---|---|
| Title: | Co-Founder |
| Country: | Germany |
| Info: | Gallery for Modern Art |
| Company: | eBay |
|---|---|
| Title: | Head of Platform Solutions Group |
| Country: | Germany |
| Info: | Online Marketplace |
| Company: | oil on mars |
|---|---|
| Title: | Founder & Managing Director |
| Country: | Germany |
| Info: | SaaS & Content Provider |
| Company: | GRAVIS |
|---|---|
| Title: | Director eCommerce |
| Country: | Germany |
| Info: | Apple Retail Chain |
| Company: | PowerMedia |
|---|---|
| Title: | Manager Business Development |
| Country: | USA |
| Info: | Software Vendor / PDA software |
Public Speaking (selected)
Startupism Conference
Changing the World
tl;dr Conference
Platform Wars
European Commission
Social Innovation Incubation
Technology Convergence Conference
Innovate in the Open!
Rainmakers
To Product/Market Fit and Beyond
Startup Week
Never Walk
Emerce eDay
David vs Goliath – Community,
Underdogs & How to Win
SoCap
Socially Responsible Investing
NASA OS Summit
How to be successful in Open Source
>play Conference
Why App Stores are broken –
and how to fix them
MIT Open Innovation
Open Innovation at Mozilla
