Early stage investor in tech-enabled businesses.

Leading Pan-European early-stage venture capital firm focussed on FinTech, Industry, Marketplaces, Health, Deep Tech and SaaS with offices in Vienna, Berlin, London, Munich and Paris. Invested in over 300 startups since 2011. Today more than €1.2B AuM across four horizontal and three focus funds. Successfully closed Si 4 with €350m in late 2023! http://www.speedinvest.com

Accelerate innovation by fundamentally changing the way startups and corporates work together to unlock hidden value.

Responsible for delivering the TR Markets annual budget of $7.5 billion in revenue with 31,000 employees globally.

Member of Thomson Reuters Markets Executive Committee (ExCom) and Global Operating Committee (OpCo). Reporting to the CEO, responsible for the global sales & service organization generating $6.5 billion in revenue and managing 30,000 accounts. Employed 6,500 personnel based in over 100 locations.Successfully led the global merger of Thomson Reuters Markets (TRM) front-line organisation, establishing a world-class global sales and service organisation providing a seamless transition for customers.

Led all sales and service activities across 125 countries in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) with GBP 1 billion in revenue and total staff of 1,400.Successfully managed the turn-around of the region making it the fastest growing region worldwide in absolute revenue. Tripled recurring net sales rate over a 12-month period. Accelerated profitable revenue growth through continued focus on customer satisfaction and business simplification as well as cost savings.

Managing all business activities in Germany, Switzerland, the Nordics, Central & Eastern Europe as we as Middle East & Africa with GBP 480 million in revenue and employing 700 personnel.Successfully transformed the business, by setting a new vision to accelerate revenue growth and promoting new cost efficient ways of working. Established the region as the global leader in customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

Managed the client-facing roles for sales and service while holding global accountability for all Direct Sales and Customer Service centres. Defined, communicated and executed the "FAST-Forward" restructuring program for all front-line functions, reshaping and substantially reducing the global cost base, by implementing new and simpler ways of working (service centralisation, field outsourcing, new operational model).

Managed all software sales and consultancy activities globally generating GBP 470 million in revenue with 170 staff. Recruited and motivated a global sales team. Delivered significant profitable revenue growth and established the entire processes for this new business.

Led the global Enterprise Solutions business, which included Trading Room Systems, Internet Finance and TIB Exchange. Managed business development, product management and development functions in Paris, Chicago and Palo Alto. With 350 personnel generated GBP 300 million in sales.

Managed all business activities for this region generating revenue of GBP 160 million with 470 personnel. Drove revenue growth - and as the Chairman of the Advisory Boards of seven other Reuters' subsidiaries in the region - established the region as the global leader in profitability.

Successfully drove revenue growth across the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the fastest growing business area in Reuters at that time. Launched Reuters' Risk Management offer (Kondor+) and established CEE as the leading sales region globally. Achieved double-digit growth in revenue and profit every year.

Successfully built the strategic relationship to Deutsche Bank. Accountable for the execution of the MDI program, a global roll-out of trading room systems (hardware, software, content) to DB's 37 trading floors globally and turning DB into Reuters' largest client by worldwide revenue.

The Mayor of Rome set up IBAC Rome to ensure that multinational companies continue to see Rome as one of the foremost city in the world in which to locate a business.The annual IBAC Rome meeting will be a chance for the Mayor to seek the input of the world's business leaders on actions he should take to ensure Rome's success. The membership of IBAC Rome is made up of Chairs and CEOs from over 50 leading multinational companies. The members will be trusted with providing ideas and advise for the Mayor of Rome to help develop Rome's economic and business policy over the years to come.

The Strategic Board defines the vision and mission of CEMS and gives its views and perspectives on categories of activities where CEMS can add value for its members.Members of this Board include Rectors and Deans of CEMS Academic member schools and senior representatives of CEMS Corporate Partners as well as the CEMS Chairman and Executive Director.

Accountable for BHF-Bank's trading room infrastructure. Optimised six departmental trading systems into a coherent, corporate-wide network reducing operating cost by 20 percent. Implemented a new 150-positions trading systems including the integration of Deutsche Terminbörse.