University of Osnabrueck, Germany

University of South Florida

Liebfrauenschule Gymnasium Cloppenburg

OMKB

Board Member

Think11

Co-Founder

Brave Projects GmbH

Managing Director

MOA Group GmbH

Capnamic Ventures (www.capnamic.com) is one of Europe’s leading early-stage tech VC funds, based in Berlin and Cologne. The venture capital firm invests most of its funds in tech-startups in German-speaking regions and joins forces with multinational investors in Europe and the USA. Capnamic connects all portfolio companies with its corporate investors network and established industry players. The venture capital fund combines expertise drawn from more than 70 investments, 13 IPOs, 40+ years of venture capital, and a strong entrepreneurial track record in the team.

Capnamic Ventures

Principal

NOZ MEDIEN is a media group consisting of multiple newspaper, radio and digital media companies. The different regional newspapers of NOZ MEDIEN have a daily total circulation of 460.000 copies in the german states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. NOZ MEDIEN belongs with about 3.000 employees to the largest german publishing companies. 

• Direct responsibility for the portfolio companies of the NOZ MEDIEN group and
the corresponding advisory board functions.
• Active development of multiple portfolio companies (including consultancy for
the growth processes, implementation of a KPI (Key Performance Indicators)
based decision making etc.).
• Market analysis & research, screening and negotiation of strategically relevant
investments in digital companies to extend the group portfolio.
• Internationalization of existing portfolio companies (Europe & Asia).
• Support of M&A processes within the publishing sector (the group’s core market).
• Corporate Development of subsidiaries and affiliated companies.
• Systematical development of a new group strategy in cooperation with the
Fraunhofer Institute IAO.

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG

Head of Corporate Development / M&A

Referent der Geschäftsführung

MSO Digital is the high performance online marketing agency of NOZ MEDIEN. MSO is building individual digital marketing solutions and customized digital marketing strategies for online platforms in a data-driven approach. In addition to search engine marketing (SEA) and optimization (SEO), the MSO Digital is a competent partner for affiliate and social media marketing and realtime Advertising and various other services in the field of performance marketing.

MSO has high customer satisfaction ratings and holds multiple awards and certificates. A transparent and customer-centric operation is always MSO's top priority. That is why MSO attaches great importance to meaningful KPIs, against which they measure themselves continuously.

- Founding of a top 15 performance online marketing agency in the DACH area
including the complete team-build / product / technology setup etc..

- Structuring of the business areas SEA (search engine marketing), SEO (search
engine optimization), SMM (social media marketing), e-mail marketing and
affiliate marketing.

- Setup of BI- / Smart Data environment as a systematical control and
decision support platform on the basis of customer journey analysis.

- Leadership and expansion of the sales department with focus on revenue and
growth intensive industries in eCommerce (fashion, travel, b2b, etc.).

- Continuous development of the company through constant expansion of growth
areas (e.g. by introducing new advertising and data technologies and new areas
of business such as online marketing consulting).

- Member of the board of management of the NOZ MEDIEN group.

MSO Digital GmbH & Co. KG

basecom GmbH & Co. KG

Advisory Board Member

Executive Board / CEO

Johannes Rohde