I am an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of leadership experience and over 5 years of experience as C-level executive and co-founder of a startup. I have always been excited about entrepreneurship and empowering teams – from training scout leaders and organizing events with hundreds of people 20 years ago to commercializing technology from MIT and building a world-class team at C2Sense. Boston’s startup ecosystem has seen a transformation in the last decade with more interest from potential founders and investors and the emergence of IoT- and data-startups. It is a privilege to be part of this development, as an advisor to founders, in the jury of startup competitions, as CEO/CTO of C2Sense - and when transferring lessons from the startup world to an established business at www.teeshop.de. Building a startup can be a rollercoaster requiring focus, determination, and thinking outside the box. My training including the PhD at MIT allowed me to build these skills, working on multi-disciplinary projects in chemistry/materials, engineering, and data science – resulting in 14 publications with 1,400+ citations and 8 patents/applications. No venture can be successful without a great team. A colleague once told me after a feedback meeting: “You just criticized [the team member], and he is leaving happier than he was before.” This is the leadership philosophy I believe in – Putting people first and unlocking our colleagues’ potential, performance, and happiness with insightful and empowering feedback and support. It has been very rewarding to implement this in many teams over the last 20 years.Supporting others and unlocking patterns in business and technical data is fun and challenging, but I also enjoy pushing my limits playing underwater rugby and volleyball, going on hiking trips, and solving complex puzzles. Do you also believe that more teams and technologies should reach their full potential? Feel free to reach out so we can achieve this together.