Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Technologist with a liberal arts background. Comfortable with solving deeply technical as well as organizational, managerial, tactical or strategic challenges. Experienced leading technical teams, structuring operations, driving sales and business development, engaging customers and partners as well as building and maintaining high value relationships. Confident public speaker, negotiator and consensus builder. cross-platform software development expert (C++, Qt), established Open Source contributor, Certified Scrum Master, Nokia Certified Qt Specialist, BlackBerry Elite Member, SAP FastTrack alumnus
Executive management, venture scouting and consulting for financial analysts, founders and investors.
Angel investing.
Responsible for all commercial and market facing aspects of the KDAB group's business, such as sales, marketing, business development, alliances and partners.
Global responsibility for all outward facing activities of the KDAB Group.
Global responsibility for the services business with seven figure turnover. Focused on maintaining and raising quality in project execution, building sustainable key account relationships, developing new areas of business and structuring and positioning the services portfolio. Consistently raising profitability year over year, while growing volume and diversifying. Instrumental in the integration of two competitors in order to grow market share and overcome growth limitations due to talent availability. Working closely with the President in representation of the group towards partners and customers as well as in joint ventures.
Responsible for all aspects of the management of the German subsidiary of the KDAB Group, including finances, human resources, operations as well as sales and business development in the German speaking market. Originally started as a satelite office with a few colleagues, the German KDAB company now employs 35 staff and contributes about half of the overall turnover. The Berlin office is a key engineering hub, hosts the KDAB training center and handles the logistics of running the annual Qt Developer Days conference as well as smaller topical events.
Core code level contributor to the KDE personal information management infrastructure and applications (Akonadi, Kontact). Member of the KDE governance body KDE e.V. and its financial working group. Auditor of the foundation's finances.