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 Germany based CFO’ operating in the Marketplace 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 Malmqvist
CFO of Frontier Car Group
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About Frontier Car Group: Frontier Car Group develops, launches, and operates used-automotive marketplaces within emerging market economies.

Markus Boser
Chief Financial Officer of AUTO1 Group
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About AUTO1 Group: AUTO1 Group is an online automotive platform that aims to connect buyers and sellers of cars throughout Europe.
Dirk Schmelzer
Chief Financial Officer of Scout24
Dr. Dirk Schmelzer (Born 1967, Nationality: German) is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Scout24 Group. In this function he is responsible for Finance, Treasury, Tax, Controlling, Procurement & Facilities and Investor Relations. Dr. Dirk Schmelzer joined Scout24 in June 2019. Previously he was CFO of the NuCom Group, a subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 and Private Equity Investor General Atlantic. For more than six years prior to that, he was CFO of the public listed company Tomorrow Focus AG and its spin-off company HolidayCheck Group AG, which operates the largest German hotel rating portal. Prior to this, he was CFO in the telecommunications industry, namely at Telefónica Deutschland GmbH and HanseNet GmbH. With a doctorate in political economy, he began his professional career in 1997 as a controller, and later in various management positions within the finance sector at the predecessor companies of Telefónica O2 (Germany).
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About Scout24: Scout24 operates digital marketplaces in the real estate & automotive sectors.
Michael Loretz
Managing Director and CFO of Watchmaster
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About Watchmaster: Watchmaster.com is a digital marketplace for buying and selling luxury watches.
Timm Weitzel
CFO & Head of Data Analytics of Thinksurance
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About Thinksurance: Thinksurance is a leading technology consultation platform for business insurance used by brokers, agents, banks and further sales channels.
Barbara Stolz
CFO of Sedo
Barbara Stolz is Sedo’s Managing Director of Finance (CFO) since February 2016. She manages the Finance & Controlling, Human Resource and Legal business units. Barbara began her professional career at Metro AG and gained experience within the corporate sector among the areas of finance, controlling and taxation at various large companies. She began working at QSC AG in 2005 as the Head of Invoicing. In 2009, she became the Business Unit Manager of Finance and was appointed CFO in 2013. Barbara has completed vocational training as a publishing company manager and accountant.
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About Sedo: Sedo is a domain name and website marketplace and domain parking provider based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cologne, Germany.
Jan-Oliver Hartmann
Founder/CFO of bikesale.de
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About bikesale.de: Germany’s biggest marketplace for used bicycles
Marcel Erian
CFO and COO of reBuy
Marcel Erian is the CFO and COO at reBuy.
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About reBuy: reBuy is an online marketplace that allows its users to buy and sell used electronics and media.