Description

I am an entrepreneur, business leader, comsultant and technology enthusiast at heart.

I strive when building, growing and managing businesses, departments and products from

0 to millions in revenues and team sizes from 1 to 50+ people. My passions and strengths lie in building and aligning strategy and operationalizing this strategy together with the team as well as optimizing internal company operations. I am an empathetic, hands-on leader that takes responsibility and moves things forward. I love the broad spectrum of entrepreneurial work: From financial planning to optimizing processes, winning a major new client on a trade-show, digging into new technologies, negotiating a supplier contract, coaching my team or aligning with investors in the quarterly board meeting.

Langues

Allemand
Bilingue ou natif
Anglais
Capacité professionnelle complète
Français
Capacité professionnelle limitée

Préférences en matière de lieu de travail

Accepte de travailler sur site

Lille (jusqu’à 50 km), Paris (jusqu’à 50 km)

Commercetools
Director Product, Integrated Offerings
mai 2022 - décembre 2024 (2 ans et 8 mois)
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
• Direct report to the Chief Product Offcer
• Member of the XLT (Extended Leadership Team)
• Managing a business unit with 3 product groups, its 50+ employees and its multi-million dollar budget
• Setting the strategy for this multi-product business unit and its 3 products
• Build culture and internal processes within the business unit
• Support in customer meetings in Sales and Customer Success

commercetools is a German-American Unicorn with >100mn€ in ARR and 600+ people.
Frontastic - a commercetools company
Head of Strategy and Finance
mai 2020 - mai 2022 (2 ans)
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
• Direct report to COO and CEO working closely on company and product strategy
• Leading finance:
Managing a multi-million € convertible loan with multiple investors
Co-Leading Series A investment round
Managing acquisition by commercetools
Investor reporting
• Leading legal:
Global hiring, payroll and compliance
All legal coordination with our lawyers• Managing strategic projects:
• Managing strategic projects:
Foundation of a subsidiary in France (commercetools France SAS)
Obtaining ISO 27001 certifcation
Leading Post-Merger Integration project

Frontastic was a German start-up with 50+ employees in the Frontend technology space.
Sensape GmbH
Co-Founder & Commercial Director
novembre 2015 - décembre 2019 (4 ans et 1 mois)
A real co-founding journey, growing the team to >25 people with corporate and SMB clients and projects from Germany over China to the US.

• Building company's & product's strategy with the Head of Product
• Building sales team that secured clients like ALDI, Swarovski, Mondelez, Mercedes, Porsche, and many more
• Securing 7-digit funding (public and private) & leading investor relations
• Legal and Finance operations
• Public Speaker for the company at trade shows, events, etc.

The company is still active today and I am still a minority shareholder.