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Our 2024 Speakers

Our speakers are people sharing unique insight from B2B SaaS. They are entrepreneurs, investors, and/or advisors willing to share actionable insights, “hacks”, and mistakes to avoid in getting a SaaS business to the next level.

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Investor

Louis Coppey

Partner @ Point Nine

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Louis Coppey
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Philipp Kloeckner

Advisor, Investor, Podcast host @ Doppelgänger Tech Talk

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Philipp Kloeckner

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Founder

Charlotte Rothert

CEO & Co-Founder of doinstruct

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Charlotte Rothert

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Founder

Frank Wolf

Co-Founder @ Staffbase

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Frank Wolf

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Jannis Koehn

Co-Founder @ FLOAT

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Jannis Koehn

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Werner Rickinger

Vice President @ Warburg Pincus

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Werner Rickinger

Werner Rickinger is based in Berlin, joined Warburg Pincus in 2021, and is a Vice President in our Technology group. He has been involved in investments by the Warburg Pincus funds which include IONOS (Webhosting & Cloud) and Infoniqa (HR & ERP Software). Previously, he was working for Goldman Sachs in their Investment Banking Division. Werner holds a Bachelor of Science from Technical University Munich and a Master’s in Finance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Abhijat Chahal

Startups & Venture Capital @ AWS

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Abhijat Chahal
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Anna-Katharina Matzenberger

Chief Operating Officer bei iDWELL

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Anna-Katharina Matzenberger
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Antony Edwards

Managing Director at PSG

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Antony Edwards
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Investor

Ellen Nyhus

CEO at Verdane

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Ellen Nyhus
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Founder

Hamid Reza Monadjem

Co-Founder and CTO at WORKERBASE

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Hamid Reza Monadjem
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Investor

Ingrid Bonde Akerlind

Principal @ Oxx VC

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Ingrid Bonde Akerlind
  • 6 years operational experience from European tech scaleups
  • 4 years as a SaaS investor
  • Expert in scaling SaaS companies with extensive experience in growth, marketing and pricing leadership
  • Leads ESG initiatives at Oxx
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Investor

Johan van Mil

Platform & SaaS VC investor at Peak

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Johan van Mil

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Investor

Johannes Schaback

CTO @ SumUp

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Johannes Schaback

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Mark Miller

Founder & Mng. Partner @ Carlsquare

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Mark Miller

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Investor

Mikael Johnsson

Co-Founder & General Partner @ Oxx VC

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Mikael Johnsson

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Paolo Negri

Co-Founder & CTO @ Contentful

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Paolo Negri
  • Scaled Contentful from 0 to 100m ARR as the CTO
  • Raised 350m USD
  • Leading Contentful to 800+ employees
  • 22 years of experience as software engineer
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Sarah Kemether

Acc. Exec. for Digital Natives at Google

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Sarah Kemether
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Willi Tscheschner

Founder and CTO @ SAP Signavio

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Willi Tscheschner
  • Scaled Signavio from 0 to 50m ARR as the CTO
  • Sold Signavio to SAP as unicorn
  • Lead Signavio to 500 employees
  • Intensive experience as investor and mentor
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Wolter Rebergen

CCO @ WebinarGeek

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Wolter Rebergen
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Founder

Alex Popp

Co-Founder & CTO @ Demodesk

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Alex Popp
  • Leading the tech team at Demodesk
  • Building the product and tech
  • Raised >$10M from Y Combinator and others
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Investor

Alex Schmitt

Partner at Lightspeed

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Alex Schmitt
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Founder

Benedikt Ilg

Co-Founder @ Flip

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Benedikt Ilg

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Investor

Christian Stein

Partner @ Riverside A.C.

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Christian Stein
  • 17 years as a VC, 23 years in tech
  • Worked in 2 startups, 3 funds and multiple big consultancies
  • Survived 3 macro cycles
  • Expertise in equity and debt
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Daniel Voss

Product GTM Lead - EMEA Startups at Stripe

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Daniel Voss
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Daniel Zäh

Global Head of AWS Alliance at Spryker

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Daniel Zäh
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Founder

Dominik Angerer

CEO & Founder @storyblok

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Dominik Angerer
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Founder

Dominik Faber

Co-Founder & CPO at paulsjob.ai

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Dominik Faber
  • Founded and scaled softgarden from €0 to €20m ARR as CEO
  • Built Europes first candidate centric recruiting SaaS
  • Acquisition and turn around of a job ads business
  • 20 years of experience as product and tech leader
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Founder

Fabian Silberer

Co-CEO & Co-Founder @ sevDesk

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Fabian Silberer

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Florian Montag

VP of Business Development @ Apaleo

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Florian Montag
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Founder

Franziska Löw

CTO @ Localyze

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Franziska Löw

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Founder

Georg Schroth

CTO / Co-Founder @ NavVis

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Georg Schroth

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Jakub Czerwinski

VP CEE at Adyen

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Jakub Czerwinski
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Jonas Quilitz

CPO at PLANTED

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Jonas Quilitz

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Founder

Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz

Partner & Co-founder at Valueships

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Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz
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Founder

Manuel Hinz

Co-Founder @ CrossEngage

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Manuel Hinz

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Marcus Bittrich

Chief Product Officer at NewStore

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Marcus Bittrich
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Marek Trunkat

CTO at Apify

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Marek Trunkat
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Nader El Ali

CEO at DemoUp Cliplister

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Nader El Ali
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Founder

Sophie Chung

CEO and Founder @ Qunomedical

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Sophie Chung
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Tim Brömme

Founder @ SE Rockstars

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Tim Brömme

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Victoria Busse

CPO at Oxolo

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Victoria Busse

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Alban Sayag

CEO @ Yousign

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Alban Sayag
  • Created a first company at 19 yo
  • Co-founded 4 tech companies incl. 1 exit to Capgemini
  • Yousign late cofounder: 40+ M€ raised, 20+M€ ARR and 150+ people added in 3 years
  • Board Member of Hexatrust (leading group of European cloud and cybersecurity champions)
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Founder

Alexander Roth

CEO & Founder @ iDWELL

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Alexander Roth

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April Dunford

Founder @ Ambient Strategy

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April Dunford
  • The world's foremost expert on Product Positioning
  • Consulted to over 300 high-growth tech companies
  • Author of 2 best selling books
  • Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch
  • 25 years as a VP Marketing across 7 successful startups
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Founder

Ari Albertini

CEO @ FTAPI

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Ari Albertini
  • Promoted from SDR to CEO @FTAPI
  • Scaled FTAPI to $20M ARR
  • Secured 1,500 high regulated customers, leading the market
  • Transitioned FTAPI to 100% SaaS subscription model
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Founder

Bijan Soltani

Co-Founder at Gemma Analytics

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Bijan Soltani
  • Set up a pragmatic data infrastructure that is efficient yet can cope with a fast-growing SaaS Company
  • Steer Marketing and Operations via a strong Customer 360 reporting merging the data from finance, product, and CRM
  • Build profitable and innovative data products on top of the foundation that can leverage the team's ability to make good decision
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Founder

Bjoern W. Schaefer

Founder @ Rowing8

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Bjoern W. Schaefer

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Founder

Christoph Berner

Founder & MD @ Cosuno

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Christoph Berner
  • Built the leading b2b construction saas-enabled marketplace in Europe
  • Raised €40m
  • Scaled up to 170 and back down to 90 employees
  • Outbound sales lover
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Dina Uthman

Sr. Manager Sales | MM DACH at HubSpot

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Dina Uthman
  • Boosted my sales team from last to #1 within <12 months
  • Tripled the sales team in a Series-A-Startup
  • Doubled average contract value within 12 months
  • Hired, onboarded and coached >50 different sales reps
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Founder

Dirk Hoerig

Founder and CEO @ commercetools

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Dirk Hoerig

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Dominic Blank

Co-Founder @ hyrise GmbH

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Dominic Blank
  • Founded, scaled and made profitable: 3 tech companies
  • Hired and trained > 500 sales reps
  • Raised 20m USD
  • 15 years experience as sales founder
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Founder

Emil Beck

Co-Founder @ Remazing

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Emil Beck
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Investor

Florian Heinemann

Partner @ Project A Ventures

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Florian Heinemann

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Founder

Frank Piotraschke

CRO @ SoSafe

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Frank Piotraschke
  • Helped scaling Optimizely, Staffbase and SoSafe
  • Worked with A16Z, Index Ventures, Insight Partners and Highland Capital
  • Lead SoSafe to 450 employees
  • 20+ years experience in GTM Leadership in Tech
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Investor

Iskender Dirik

Partner @ Delin Ventures

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Iskender Dirik
  • Worked for EQT Ventures, Samsung Next Ventures, Microsoft ScaleUp
  • Fundraising advisor and founder of the FundraisingCOUP program
  • 23 years of experience in the tech industry
  • Partner at Delin Ventures and Founder of INFINITE DISRUPTION

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Jan-Erik Jank

Founder @ SE Rockstars

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Jan-Erik Jank

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Jannik Abraham

Managing Director @ Smoobu

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Jannik Abraham
  • Grew user portfolio to 100,000+ properties across 100+ countries
  • Scaled Smoobu's ARR 2.5x in 2 years
  • Lead Smoobu to from 20 to 80+ employees
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Julia Goelles

VP Marketing @ Parloa

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Julia Goelles

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Founder

Julia Saswito

CMO, Head of Strategy @ aimpower

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Julia Saswito
  • Human Centricity for Sales & Tech
  • 24 years of experience in Digital with Global Enterprise Clients
  • Successful exit of own Agency to the Reply Group 
  • Currently leading GTM / Customer Success at B2B SaaS AI-startup aimpower
  • Raised 6,5 Million Growth funding in 2023
  • Achieving >140% NDR YoY
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Founder

Klaus Wegener

Co-Founder & Managing Director @ 35up

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Klaus Wegener
  • Carved out and SCALED 35up to Series A
  • Raised 20MM+ to date
  • 15+ years of entrepreneurial experience

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Founder

Lars Mangelsdorf

Co-Founder & CCO @ Yokoy

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Lars Mangelsdorf

• Joined Beekeeper early 2018 and has been #1 ranked AE globally for 2018 and 2019

• Founded Yokoy in 2019 and built sales from scratch, growing the organization from 5 - 300 Employees

• Sequoia invested in Yokoys Series B round ($80M) because of the fast growth of the sales-driven organization

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Lennart Weber

Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Gemma Analytics

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Lennart Weber

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Louise Barnekow

CEO @ Mynewsdesk

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Louise Barnekow

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Founder

Machiel Kunst

Founder @ Bluebird Recruitment

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Machiel Kunst
  • Former Sales Director of SolarWinds MSP, experiencing $6M to $250M growth and a successful IPO
  • Former Head of Sales at FastSpring, built the European market from $0 to $3M in ARR within 1 year
  • Currently the Founder & CEO of Bluebird, Germany's #1 SaaS recruitment company
  • Machiel and his team have helped 200+ SaaS companies hire both commercial and technical talent in Germany
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Founder

Malte Kosub

CEO & Co-Founder @ Parloa

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Malte Kosub
  • Leading Parloa to become the leader in AI Agents for customer support
  • Raised $98m from Altimeter, EQT Ventures, Mosaic and others
  • Built Parloa from 0 to more than 250 FTE in Berlin, Munich and New York
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Expert

Manuel Hartmann

Founder @ SalesPlaybook

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Manuel Hartmann
  • Helped 300+ B2B SaaS entrepreneurs build & scale sales
  • Scaled SalesPlaybook to 7-figure annual revenue in 3.5 years
  • 15 years of sales experience from Tesla, Accenture & AI startups
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Founder

Martin Twellmeyer

Co-Founder @ Optilyz

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Martin Twellmeyer
  • Active in the SaaS industry for nearly 10 years
  • Co-founded and leads a 50-person MarTech company
  • Raised equity, public funding, and revenue-based financing
  • Held all roles possible within an organization (inc. CTO)
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Founder

Neele Wehmeyer

Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ ba-group

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Neele Wehmeyer
  • Founder and Co CEO ba group a SaaS focused CPA firm
  • German CPA and tax consultant, International tax consultant
  • Board Member at PrimeGlobal – An International Association of Accountants and Advisors
  • Visionary SaaS and Startup expert for pragmatic on the point solutions
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Expert

Oliver Manojlovic

VP Sales @ Personio

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Oliver Manojlovic
  • Scaled Personio's new Business from 500 to 12.000+ customers
  • Active Business Angel with over 20+ investments
  • 17+ Sales and Leadership experience in SaaS/Cloud
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Founder

Patrick Trümpi

CRO @ Taskbase

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Patrick Trümpi
  • Scaled 4 startups from <200k to >10 Mio ARR
  • Managed to be part of one exit
  • 10 years of B2B SaaS Sales and Leadership Experience
  • >26k followers on LinkedIn
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Founder

Paul Becker

Co-Founder and CEO @ re:cap

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Paul Becker

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Paul Zentner

Partner @ BRAVE NEW BRANDS

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Paul Zentner
  • Co-developed several Unicorn SaaS Brands
  • 20 Years of hands-on experience in Brand Consulting and Designing
  • Brackground in Branding, Strategy Consulting and Digital Customer Experience
  • Co-Founder of a B2B SaaS Company
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Remy A. Lazarovici

Managing Director DACH at Celonis

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Remy A. Lazarovici
  • First FTE at Celonis in 2012
  • Has built up Go-to-Market from scratch
  • Led EMEA expansion for 6+ years
  • Now running DACH region as MD
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Founder

Sebastian Baier

Founder & MD @ buynomics

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Sebastian Baier
  • Co-Founded Buynomics and grew team to +70
  • Trusted by global leaders like Danone, L'Oréal, General Mills
  • Raised from leading international investors
  • 12 years of experience in revenue management
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Founder

Simon Schmincke

General Partner at CREANDUM

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Simon Schmincke

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Founder

Tim Rath

MD @ YOYABA

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Tim Rath
  • Founder @ YOYABA, #1 Revenue Marketing Agency in DACH
  • Leading a team of 50 stellar marketers
  • Active client portfolio of 35+ B2B SaaS accounts
  • Largest advertiser on LinkedIn in DACH
  • #1 German marketing podcast for B2B SaaS
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Investor

Toby Lywood

B2B SaaS investor at Oxx VC

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Toby Lywood
  • 5 years as an investor in European B2B SaaS companies
  • Specialist in partner and channel-led sales motions
  • Performed financial due diligence on multiple high profile fintech and software transactions over a billion euros in value
  • Qualified chartered accountant
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Ulrich Britting

Co-Founder & CEO @ ba-group

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Ulrich Britting
  • Founder and CEO ba group  a SaaS focused CPA firm
  • Co Founder of pathway solutions (SaaS accounting Tech busniess)
  • German and US CPA
  • Out of the box thinker
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