whoami.v1 (Personal)

I love to Read.
I love to Learn.
I love Building Products.
I have a Passion for Business.
I am a Software Developer with an MBA.
I am an Entrepreneur, Coder, Maker, Father, Husband.

whoami.v2 (Professional)

Hands-on CTO and technology strategist - MBA in Global Business and Entrepreneurship - Over 20 years of hand-on software development experience - Over 10 years of practical product and business development experience – Experienced working in large enterprises, privately-owned mid-sized companies and fast-growing startups – Proven leadership in fast paced business- and technology-driven environments – Thinking from the customer perspective - Combining passion for the business with love for technology – Always focusing on optimizing the whole, not its parts – Strong believer in lifelong learning and Lean thinking – Helping product organizations to execute and scale.

You can find me on LinkedIn and XING.

whoami.v3 (Speaker Bio)

I am currently working as CTO for Ingentis, an HR analytics company with the focus on SaaS, Data and AI. Before that I worked as CTO of CANEI, a business finance and analytics startup, CTO of adello.com, a mobile marketing startup using ML for programmatic advertisement and fraud prevention and CTO of the Haufe Group, one of Germany’s leading digital media and business services companies in Germany. Prior to joining Haufe Group, I was API Evangelist, Product Architect and Business Developer for Layer7 Technologies (acquired by CA Technologies) and member of the IBM WebSphere CTO office working on Hybrid Cloud and the IBM Appliance Foundation. Other previous companies include DataPower Technologies (acquired by IBM), Lucent Technology, and Hughes Network Systems.