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.

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Lille (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km)

Commercetools
Director Product, Integrated Offerings
May 2022 - December 2024 (2 years and 8 months)
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
May 2020 - May 2022 (2 years)
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
November 2015 - December 2019 (4 years and 1 month)
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.