Boardroom Media (CFO News)
At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Berlin based CFO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Kimpel
CFO of Rocket Internet
Peter Kimpel is a Chief Financial Officer at Rocket Internet SE since May 2014. Peter was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1968. Peter holds a degree in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Upon graduation, Peter began his career with Goldman Sachs as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs International London. Between 1992 and 2014, he held various other positions at Goldman Sachs, including Associate in New York/ San Francisco, Associate and later Vice President at Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt, where he was Managing Director from 2004 to 2006. Subsequently, from 2006 to 2010, Peter worked as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International London, where he was promoted to Partner in 2010. In 2014, Peter left Goldman Sachs and became Rocket’s Chief Financial Officer. Peter is responsible for finance, investor relations, legal, risk & compliance and internal audit.
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About Rocket Internet: Rocket Internet incubates and invests in internet and technology companies globally.
Fabian Wesemann
Founder, CFO of wefox
Fabian is the Co-Founder and Group CFO of wefox group. wefox Group operates two businesses across Europe: Wefox is a platform that connects insurance companies to brokers that manage and consult their customers completely digital. Wefox currently features more than 300 insurance companies on the marketplace and serves more than 1’000 broker agents and 250.000 consumers. ONE: Fully digital European insurance company. The vision is to create a single protection for all risks in life in real time based on actually exposed risk. ONE is fully integrated in the wefox platform. wefox group has raised >€50m to date. This investment is the largest sum invested in an Insurtech company in Europe to date. Before wefox, Fabian founded EMPAUA Gmbh and worked as an investment banker for Deutsche Bank in London.
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About wefox: wefox is a digital insurance company with tech enabled human agents.
Igor Kuschnir
Managing Director & CFO of Penta
Igor is Chief Financial Officer at Penta and in charge of our financial strategy. He brings in extensive corporate finance experience and the necessary attention to detail. Before joining Penta, he worked for Citi’s investment banking division focusing on M&A transactions.
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About Penta: Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking.
Jan Bohl
Chief Financial Officer of Ableton
Jan Bohl is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Berlin. Jan Bohl graduated in business administration from both ESCP Paris and Technical University of Berlin. He started his career as a management consultant in the media practice group with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Since 2000 he is co-owner and CFO/COO of Ableton, an internationally renowned maker of music software having offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. Since Abletons foundation more than 1.7 million musicians, DJs, sound designers have used one of Ableton’s software programs. Ableton has been nominated several times in the German Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte in which the fastest growing technology companies are listed in. Jan built up the commercial organization of Ableton and has successfully lead this division since 2000. Next to the established software business Ableton released its first hardware product called PUSH in March 2013. With entering the hardware market Ableton expects to significantly increases its market share in the computer based music production market in the coming years. Besides his role within Ableton Jan Bohl has been a mentor and coach to founders and managers of start up businesses especially in the area of technology/Internet. Jan is an active business angel investor.
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About Ableton: Ableton develops software and hardware for creating, producing and performing music.
Kathleen Ende
CFO of OpenSynergy
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About OpenSynergy: OpenSynergy provides embedded software products for the next generation of vehicles.
Stephan Dorfmeister
CFO of omni:us
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About omni:us: omni:us offers a suite of insurance-focused AI tools developed for claims management.
Moritz ten Eikelder
Co-Founder & CFO of Layer
Moritz ten Eikelder is the Co-Founder and CFO of Layer.
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About Layer, optionspace: We are building the connective tissue for spreadsheets.
Hanspeter Wehle
Co-Founder, COO and CFO of Service Partner ONE
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About Service Partner ONE: SP ONE is revolutionizing the facility service market using the SP ONE proprietary technology platform.
Rene Meyer
CFO of Tracks
René accumulated 12+ years in senior and executive finance positions within the energy and logistics industry. He has a vast experience in public & institutional fundraising, financial & liquidity management, HR & organizational structure, development as well as business planning. Besides a degree in economics, René holds an MBA in Innovation, Enterprise and the Circular Economy from the University of Bradford School of Management.
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About Tracks: We pioneer the road freight industry’s transformation towards greater efficiency, supply chain transparency and environmental sustainability
Oliver Schmitz
Chief Financial Officer of LucaNet
Oliver is founder & CFO of LucaNet.
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About LucaNet: Software and consulting for consolidation, planning, reporting and analysis
Joern Woywat
Chief Financial Officer of Acrolinx
As Chief Financial Officer, Joern Woywat is responsible for managing the financial aspects of Acrolinx. He brings over 20 years of financial management experience at high-growth technology businesses. Prior to Acrolinx, Joern held several positions as VP of Finance and CFO at software companies including Asdis, Swyx, and Schad. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Goettingen.
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About Acrolinx: Acrolinx is a leading global provider of highly scalable and proven AI software for enterprise content creation.
Lukas Hempel
CTO & CFO, Founder of bookingkit
Lukas C. C. Hempel is a Founder at bookingkit GmbH.
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About bookingkit: Bookingkit offers a smart booking & marketing solution that enables tour and activity businesses to sell, market and manage their services.
Jens Brückmann
Chief Financial Officer of Glispa
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About Glispa: Glispa is a mobile ad tech company dedicated to empowering our partners with sophisticated solutions made simple.
Ferdinand von Humboldt
CFO and COO of Webtrekk
Ferdinand von Humboldt has many years’ experience in finance of fast-growing technology companies. Prior to Webtrekk, he was CFO of the Orendt Group, eCommerce content providers, and Zuumeo, a photo and content provider. Ferdinand von Humboldt began his career at Roland Berger, a global consulting firm.
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About Webtrekk: Webtrekk is a customer intelligence platform that allows users to connect and activate user and marketing data across all devices.
Tobias Auferoth
Managing Director / CFO of Upvest
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About Upvest, Upvest: Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API.
Jens Panek
Chief Financial Officer of Customer Alliance
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About Customer Alliance: Customer Alliance manages and improves hotels online reputations and increase revenue.
Frank Hoffmann
CFO of ThinPrint
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About : ThinPrint is the provider of print management software and services for businesses.
Jessica Zeller
Co-Founder, CFO of Edkimo
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About Edkimo: Edkimo – Feedback for Learning. With privacy by design.
Jessica Zeller
Co-Founder, CFO of Edkimo
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About Edkimo: Edkimo – Feedback for Learning. With privacy by design.
Sven Huschke
CFO of Cortado Holding
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About : Cortado Holding AG is focused on enterprise mobility, printing, virtualization and BYOD.
