Management
Michael Greve
CEO
Together with his brother Matthias, Michael Greve (46), CEO of Kizoo AG, is one of the most successful founders of the German-speaking Internet industry. With start-ups such as Flug.de, Lastminute.de and WEB.DE Michael and his brother proved in an impressive manner what a young entrepreneur can achieve on and with the Internet. They developed Flug.de into one of the most successful flight booking sites on the Internet and sold it later to the Otto Group. Lastminute.de was established by them as the largest independent last-minute travel agency on the German Internet and sold to Lastminute.com. After the successful IPO of WEB.DE in 2000, the company developed into Germany’s largest Internet portal and left competitors like Yahoo, AOL and MSN behind it. Since 2008 Michael has been focusing with his many years of experience as a founder and technical specialist on helping young founders to transform their ideas into reality and establish their products successfully on the market.
Matthias Hornberger
CFO
As CFO of Kizoo AG Matthias Hornberger (49) is in charge of the areas Venture Capital Investments, Finance, Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs. He has been part of the senior management team since the IPO of the AG in 2000. With his long-standing experience in the investment sector and his comprehensive knowledge of typical features of successful business models on the Internet, he is a competent reference person for young founders. Matthias has extensive contacts in the high-tech industry and numerous local and national networks which are extremely useful for young founders.
Frank Schüler
CMO
As CMO Frank Schüler (41) is in charge of marketing and distribution. Frank has had top positions within the company for more than 10 years. As the senior manager in charge venture financing, he very successfully implemented, amongst other things, the IPO, the foundation of the WEB.DE Club and the WEB.DE premium for-pay offering. Thanks to his experience as a managing director of the most important subsidiaries of the group and a large number of trendsetting projects, he is a competent contact for all aspects relating to the product, marketing and distribution strategy.
Heiko Schneefeld
CTO
As Chief Technology Officer Heiko Scheefeld (42) is in charge of technological development and consulting. Apart from being always absolutely up-to-date in technical terms as far as Internet technologies are concerned, he develops as CIO the structures and organizations which are necessary for the overall success. Heiko is our “doer in the background” who fights in an uncompromising manner with a lot of power and passion for our common goals. In this way Heiko and his team have successfully delivered many services for end customers around classical web and mobile services down to up-to-date terminal equipment technologies in the communication and entertainment industry. Thanks to his many years of experience and active role as a developer, project manager and manager he is a valuable contact for all matters relating to state-of-the-art web and development technologies, cloud computing, business systems and systems operations.
