A serial entrepreneur, Venture Capital investor and seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience as a founder, CEO, board member, advisor, and investor. Extensive background in the Software, Cloud, SaaS and Managed Services market. Hands-on experience in starting and growing successful business ventures, venture capital investments, and general management. I enjoy teaming up with entrepreneurs to jointly build exciting tech companies, contributing my business experience, my track record, and my international network. Co-founder at Secure-24 in 2001, the company grew into one of the world’s leading cloud computing and managed service providers in the business application market. Providing Cloud Services to Fortune 500 companies, Secure-24 was recognized 3 times by INC500 as one of the fastest growing business in the US. Secure-24 was acquired by NTT in 2018 with about 700 employees.Founder at West Atlantic Partners, LLC in 2015 with Investments in about a dozen technology, Software and SaaS companies, with focus on recurring revenue business models. Helping US, German and European companies to scale and enable access to global markets. Serving on multiple Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards. Specialties#venturecapital #angel #investment #technology #development #networking #marketing #sales #financing #capital #startup #management #b2b #entrepreneurship #strategicplanning #strategicthinking #intellectualproperty #licensing #intellectualproperty #privateequity #buyout #subscription #investmentbanking #cloudbased #informationtechnology #it #saas #m&a #cloudcomputing #germanstartup #germanstartups #swissstartup #swissstartups #linkedintopstartups #angelinvestor #angelinvestors #getfunded #bootstrapping 
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