Current Mandate
ICEYE | CEO Germany / Lead Intelligence SystemsI lead ICEYE Intelligence GmbH, contributing to Germany's sovereign intelligence infrastructure. I manage the intersection of ICEYE and our Joint Venture with Rheinmetall RISS, to execute multi-billion euro space consortia.
Track
Sovereign Policy: EU-INC | Co-Initiator
We mobilized 25,000 founders and 600+ VCs to architect the "28th Regime" - a pan-European legal entity designed to solve the continent’s fragmentation. The proposal was integrated into the EU Commission’s 2025 work programme and became a concrete legal proposal from the Commission in 2026. It started as a side project; it ended as a shift in European economic architecture.Venture Systems: Entrepreneur First | Partner & GM
I ran the Berlin venture-building engine, leading 37 deep-tech investments and sitting on the Global IC for ~100 more. I specialize in the "Tech/Science-to-Founder" transition, implementing data-driven talent analytics (>8.9M datapoints) to build generational startups from scratch (3.5x MOIC, 2022 vintage).Moonshot Commercialization: Alphabet (Google & X) | Program Lead, Industry ManagerAt X-The Moonshot Factory (Rotation): Ran the commercial pilot of Chorus, an IoT predictive analytics platform, with the world’s largest package carrier. Fifteen-state US deployment. The kind of role where you learn very fast what it actually takes to drag deep tech out of the lab and into the real world.At Google: I spent 6 years mastering the mechanics of global enterprise sales. I was the commercial interface for Europe’s largest brands, scaling a sports- travel and retail verticals to $100M+ ARR by building custom sales-intelligence tools, strategies.Early Career: Giftme | Founder
Founded the first payment product on Facebook in 2011 (€100k pre-seed). It didn't become a unicorn, but it was my first lesson in building under extreme uncertainty.
2023 - 2025 Interlude
I took two years to be present for the birth and early years of my second daughter. During this time, I advised on founders in various deep-tech fields and built EU-INC. I value intellectual honesty and family over corporate optics. I am back to full intensity now.
Speaking & Writing
DLD, UnternehmerTUM Forum, DeepTech Investor Summit. Quoted in Sifted, TechCrunch, Bloomberg - mostly on European competitiveness and what’s broken about the continent’s innovation and risk capital infrastructure. I write longer stuff on Medium when I have something worth saying.
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