Founder and speaker who builds bridges between people, cultures and ideas

I bring together public speaking, the founder mindset and two worlds: Latin America and Germany. I grew up in a small village in Lower Saxony, the son of parents who had left East Germany and Cuba in search of freedom and new opportunities. At school I already took part in rhetoric competitions and founded a student company.

An exchange year in La Serena, Chile, shaped me deeply and led me to study International Business in Münster and Economics (Licenciatura) in Costa Rica as part of a double-degree programme.

Over the past ten years I have co-founded five companies: a robotics and medical technology company (digity.de), an e-commerce company in Mexico (cherish.mx), a joint venture in food biotechnology (kuragobiotek.com), a small sales and consulting firm, and a coworking space in rural Thuringia (coworking-eic.de). The road was not easy: I went through an insolvency and made many mistakes. But I also won high-profile B2B clients, closed funding rounds and sold a company as a co-owner. Starting a family is not quite the same thing, but it is a challenge too and should not be forgotten here.

I am convinced that entrepreneurship is the best way to make our world a better place.