General Partner

• >18 years McKinsey, thereof 9 years as a Partner, 1.5 years as Senior Advisor
• Led and scaled up German Corporate Finance Practice and McKinsey’s Global Market Infrastructure Practice
• Deep industry expertise in growth strategies for Financial Services and Capital Markets
• Served on non-exec board of family business
• PhD in Banking and Finance from University of Witten/Herdecke; M.Sc. from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

CFO/COO

• Joined Digital+ Partners in January 2020 as CFO/COO
• >5 years McKinsey as Engagement Manager with focus on finance, investment and strategy projects
• Previous founder/entrepreneurial and financial services experience
• M. Sc. and PhD in business administration from Goethe University of Frankfurt

Team Assistant

• Joined Digital + Partners in January 2020
• Apprenticeship as a hotel professional at Grandhotel Hessischer Hof Frankfurt

Investment Manager

• Joined Digital⁺ Partners in July 2017 as a Senior Associate
• MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Previously analyst at J.P.Morgan Asset Management in New York and London with focus on managing multi-asset class portfolios

Investor Relations Manager

• Joined Digital⁺ Partners in April 2017
• Previously Office Manager at Halder with over 8 years of experience in investor relations, office and event management
• Partner Assistant at Permira with 12 years of experience in Private Equity, including recruiting and office management
• Assistant at Young & Rubicam advertising agency and correspondent at American Express for the customer service

CHRO

• Joined Digital⁺ Partners in January 2020 as CHRO
• 7 years member of the senior leadership team at fast growing digital companies, responsible for human resources and organisational development
• 9 years experience as HR Director of professional service firms like Deloitte Consulting, Kerkhoff Consulting and AlixPartners
• Fully qualified German lawyer

General Partner

• Interim MD for SEDF (Soros Economic Development Fund)
• 13 years Partner at Permira (1995 -2008)
• 13 years Sirona Dental Systems (1997-2004, from 2009) as Permira Partner and Chairman of the Board. Focus on “Industrie 4.0”-approach bringing business to global leadership
• 10 years JP Morgan and McKinsey
• PhD and MBA from University Saarbrücken

Principal

• Joined Digital⁺ Partners in May 2017 as Investment Manager
• Equity research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch with focus on European enterprise software and internet sectors
• Investment Associate at Eight Roads Ventures (formerly Fidelity Growth Partners), focus on high-growth B2B and B2C businesses in Europe
• BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford

Executive Assistant

• Joined Digital+ Partners in October 2018
• Previously Complex Convention Sales Coordinator at The Westin Grand Hotel Munich

General Partner

• 16 years McKinsey; 9 years as Partner
• Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Automotive & Assembly Practice China, leader in the Advanced Industrial Practice in the US, leader Innovation in Germany
• >10 years experience in ‘e-mobility’, ‘Industry 4.0’, ‘autonomous vehicles’
• Scaled businesses for about 30 clients globally, serves investors since 1998
• Diplome de Grande Ecole and MSc from ESCP Europe and PhD in engineering from TU Berlin

Associate

• Joined Digital+ Partners in July 2019 as Associate
• Previously 2 years M&A and capital markets experience at Deutsche Bank
• Master in Banking & Finance from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; Bachelor in Business Administration from University of Mannheim
• Additional experience in Leveraged & Acquisition Finance at HSBC and Transaction Advisory at Deloitte

Principal

• Joined Digital+ Partners in January 2018 as Investment Manager
• 3 years leadership at Deutsche Bank & Commerzbank, previously head of payments & deposits for private and business clients at Commerzbank
• 6 years McKinsey
• M. Sc. and PhD in business administration from Goethe University of Frankfurt

Associate

• Joined Digital⁺ Partners in July 2019 as an Associate
• M. Sc. in Finance and Private Equity with Distinction from the London School of Economics; Honours Degree in Technology Management from CDTM
• Previous start-up, consulting, and innovation-research experience

Team Assistant

• Joined Digital+ Partners in June 2019
• B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Marburg and Millersville University of Pennsylvania
• Apprenticeship in event management at Steigenberger

Associate

• Joined Digital+ Partners in July 2019
• Previously 2.5 years experience in strategy department of Credit Suisse in Zurich
• Master in Business Innovation from University of St. Gallen; Bachelor in Business Administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business

General Partner

• 10 years at Investcorp focusing on growth equity investments in European and US technology companies. >6 years Principal and investment partner Investcorp Technology Partners Fund III
• 2 years Principal at General Atlantic pursuing technology growth equity investments in Germany and across Europe
• 3 years at Infineon Technologies as program manager for high-speed communication chips
• MBA from INSEAD and PhD from Technische Universität München

Senior Associate

• Joined Digital+ Partners in March 2018 as Associate
• M. Sc. in Finance/ Electrical Engineering from Technical University Munich and University of California, Berkeley
• Previous experience in Equity Sales at HSBC and Consulting at PwC

Team Assistant

• Joined Digital + Partners in January 2020
• Previously Restaurant Manager at Hotel Bergwelt Längenfeld

• 2004-2014, 2016-present: SpaceX, Member of the Executive Team, responsibility for Avionics, Guidance, Navigation, and Control; one of the first SpaceX engineers, grew his team from 7 to 210
• 2014-2015: Techfounders, Partner
• 2002-2004: Hansen Experimental Physics Labs, Researcher
• 2001-2004: Instrumentation for Science & Medicine, Senior R&D Consultant
• Education: M.Sc. aeronautics and astronautics, Stanford; M.Sc. informatics and aerospace from Technical University Munich

• Since 2009: Your Business Lab, Co-founder and Partner
• 1998-2009: Utimaco Safeware AG, Chief Financial Officer, IPO, co-led the turnaround and successful sale to Sophos for a consideration of over €200 million
• 1995-1997: Ditec Informationstechnologie AG, Chief Financial Officer
• 1989-1995: Various management positions at Jenoptik AG, Treuhandanstalt Berlin, and Wella AG
• Education: MSc in engineering and economics, Technical University Darmstadt, Investment Analyst (DVFA)

• Since 2015: Founding investor and CEO at Relayr
• 2013-2015: Cisco, Chief Architect for "Internet of Things” and Energy
• Since 2013: Business Angel in several start-ups including Relayr, Neokami. Josef has on an ongoing basis EUR 15-20mn of his personal wealth invested in tech start-ups in the US and Germany
• 2007-2013: JouleX, Founder & CEO, sold to Cisco for USD107mn
• 2000-2004: Bastille Networks, Founder & CEO, sold to Integralis (now NTT Telecom)
• Since 1997: several start-ups on security-related topics
• Education: high school dropout

• Current: Partner, head of DACH Performance Improvement Practice, Bain & Company, Germany Inc.
• 2004-2010: Junior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Vienna (Austria) - focus on automotive and industrial high tech
• 2000-2003: Founder and VP Business Development StudySoft Inc., MD (USA) - dissolved
• Experience in pre-deal diligence, post-acquisition value creation, strategy, operations, growth and transformation
• Several fund- and deal-specific co-investments, value and growth investor
• Education: Humanities and Law (Berlin, Stanford); MPA (Harvard)

• Since 2015: Rossmanith, CEO (2002-2006 as COO)
• Since 2006: Teamviewer, Board member (since 2015), CEO (2014-2015)
• 2001-2002: Zeta Software, Sales
• Education: MSc industrial engineering from Stuttgart University

• Advisory Partner since 2020, previously Principal at Digital+ Partners from 2016-19
• Principal at Cinven from 2010-15 – pursued buyout transactions in Germany and across Europe, with a focus on industrial and business services sectors
• >2 years M&A and capital markets experience at Goldman Sachs
• MSc in business administration from the University of Mannheim, Fulbright student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

• Since 2008: Prolific angel investor in advanced technology companies. Notable investments: Effect Photonics, Romo Wind, Electrochaea, MBA Polymers, BigRep, micropsi industries, Nanda (sold to NANO)
• Since 2009: Wellington Partners, Partner (full-time until 2013, part-time since 2014). Notable investments: Orcan Energy, Heliatek, Livebookings, Eyeem, Readmill (sold to Dropbox)
• 1999-2008: Apax Partners, Partner in the Tech & Telecoms Team, broad experience in venture, growth and buyout investments. Notable investments: Ciao (sold to SRVY/MSFT), Webraska (sold to Sanef), Systemonic (sold to Philips), Q-Cells (IPO), NXP Semiconductors (IPO)
• 1995-1999: McKinsey & Company, Senior Engagement Manager, focus on high-tech clients from the biotech, telecoms, digital media and electronics industries.
• 1990-1995: FWF/Austrian Research Council
Projects and intern at CERN, Geneva, in advanced neural network detector algorithms/Innsbruck Hephy group; research program in exactly solvable models/Vienna Mathematical Physics group
• Education: Dr. rer. nat, University of Vienna; M.Sc. physics, University of Innsbruck

• Since 2017: co founder AUMENTAR AG – specialist in business process automation
• 2006 – 2016: co founder and member of the management team (CFO, CRO) Fidor Bank AG – Europe´s first digital bank
• 2012 – 2017: co founder and head of the supervisory board Fidor Solutions AG – b2b provider of digital banking platforms
• 2002 – 2006: European CEO of BearingPoint – business consulting and systems integration
• 1984 – 2002: KPMG Consulting, partner in charge of Financial Services Consulting

• Currently VP of Autonomous Vehicle Programs at Lyft, the US ride-hailing company. Responsible for the strategy to deploy and scale autonomous vehicles on Lyft's network
• Prior to Lyft, executive team of Opower, an energy-focused software company, which went public in 2014 and was later acquired by Oracle. At Opower, built & led Opower’s business outside the US
• Consultant at McKinsey & Company, founding member of the Firm’s Sustainability Practice
• Worked extensively in the Automotive sector

• 2011-2016: Intel, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile and Communications Group, MD of Intel Mobile Communications GmbH, Intel Deutschland GmbH
• 2005-2011: Infineon Technologies, Executive Vice President and a Member of the Management Board, CTO and CMO
• 1991-2002: Numerous management positions at Infineon and prior to that, at Siemens
• University of Hanover, Avocational professor until 2010 and previously served as a full chair
• Education: Dr.-Ing. in electrical engineering from University Bochum

• >33 years Accenture Plc (until 2000 Andersen Consulting), thereof 22 years as an International Partner
• Led the Frankfurt Office (1990-1992), Financial Services Germany (1992-1997) and was Country Managing Partner Germany (1997-1999)
• Member of the Global Executive Committee since 1999 and Member of the Board of Directors of Accenture Plc (2001-2012); International Chairman since 2009
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank and Deutsche Börse AG
• Investor and member of the Advisory Board in growth companies and private equity
• Studied Business Administration

• >27 years McKinsey, thereof 23 years as a Partner
• Led German Financial Institutions Practice (1997-2001), Co-Founded and led McKinsey’s global Business Technology Office (1997-2006) and was Managing Partner Germany (2007-2013)
• From 2009 to 2015 member of McKinsey & Company’s Global Operating Committee and from 2002-2017 member of McKinsey & Company’s Global Board of Directors (Shareholders Council)
• Studied business Administration and Economics at Westphalia Wilhelm University of Münster, Germany and the London School of Economics; holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

• 25 years in PE/financial services
• Partner at private equity firm Larchpoint Capital LLP and member of the IC
• Previously, senior executive at SVG Capital plc, KPMG and Arthur Andersen PE Transaction Advisory
• Deep experience across investments, fund management, strategy, governance
• Qualified Chartered Accountant
• Board Member/Trustee of St. Mark’s Hospital Foundation and The Doon School English Charitable Trust Foundation