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Meet the team<\/h1>\n
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Open source cloud collaboration is our passion at Nextcloud GmbH and we have built a great team of experts around it. Our engineers, designers and support professionals work as an integral part of the wider Nextcloud community to give customers direct access to the most advanced, in-depth knowledge they need for their success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Management<\/h2>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ el_width=”20″ el_class=”nc_separator_line”]\n\t\t Frank founded the ownCloud project in 2010 to put home users and enterprises back in control of their data. To bring file sync and share technology to the next level and better align to the needs of users and customers he founded Nextcloud in 2016 and has been tirelessly working to realize his vision ever since.<\/p>\n Andreas studied Economics and has 20 years experience in Business Development, Partner- and Sales Management. Andreas worked for companies like Oracle, EMC, Yahoo and Google and also for start ups in the Cloud Computing and Online Marketing space.<\/p>\n Jos graduated in Psychology from the University of Utrecht and handled project and service level management at Royal Bank of Scottland, KPN and the Dutch Department of Education. He has over a decade open source marketing and PR experience, being active in the KDE community for over a decade and working as Community Manager for several companies including SUSE Linux.<\/p>\n Patrick was co-founder of struktur AG in 2000, responsible for sales and finance. He held several sales and marketing positions at IBM and Oracle, adding up to more than two decades of experience in the IT industry.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Oliver has a degree in technical economics and 16 years of experience in the IT\/Software industry, in different roles ranging from Sales, to Project Management, Product Owner as well as Service and Managing Director and in different verticals as well: HR IT, logistics IT and eCommerce.<\/p>\n Andy graduated in Applied Business in Computer Science and has more than 15 years of experience in delivering custom software solutions and IT consulting to customers. He worked for companies like msg systems and Capgemini supporting enterprises and startups in various industries like telecommunication, travel, logistics and finance with a focus on building software-systems, -platforms and -factories.<\/p>\n Dietlinde has degrees in Public Management and Business Administration and has been working for over a decade in human resources with a focus on recruitment in the UK and in Germany. She is passionate about supporting Nextclouds\u00b4 biggest asset \u2013 our people, and about bringing new talents into our team.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ el_width=”20″ el_class=”nc_separator_line”]\n\t\t Vanessa's experience ranges from project management and sales to graphic design, legal, marketing and communication.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Fabian worked for various industries always close to the customer and has been in the IT industry now for several years with a focus on customer relationship management. He is passionate about innovative and new technologies and his primary goal is to help our customers to fulfill their vision.<\/p>\n Fyruz did her post-graduate in International Business & Intercultural Management at the University of Heilbronn. She worked as key account manager in various IT startups and is driven to help the customers with the best suited solution. Benoit holds an International Business degree from the University of Alberta, Southampton Solent University, and Montpellier Business School. Benoit has over 15 years of experience in Sales Management and worked as a Project Deployment Lead at companies such as Airbus.<\/p>\n Viktoria studied business administration and learned Spanish living in Mexico for a while. She has over 7 years of sales experience and has a strong focus on finding the perfect fit for the needs of the customer.<\/p>\n Nico is a certified Networking Specialist (CNS) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) with over 20 years account management experience in the communications and VoIP sector.<\/p>\n Edeltraut studied business administration and has over 13 years experience in domestic, international sales and the open source community. She believes customer satisfaction is based on bringing great customer service, delivered by a caring and friendly person, promptly, with the support of a practical problem-solving process. Edeltraut provides excellent administrative support to our sales team and to any busy sales operation.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Markus has over 19 years experience as Account and Partner manager at HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Aruba.<\/p>\n Cristina lives in Stuttgart and has a background in business development, mostly in the SaaS industry. Her primary focus was customer success and lead generation but she has experience in marketing as well. She is fond of modern tech and tries to bring it closer to organisations in order to streamline their business.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ el_width=”20″ el_class=”nc_separator_line”]\n\t\t Bj\u00f6rn is a computer scientist, graduated at the University of Stuttgart. He conducted research in the area of cloud robotics before he joined a private cloud community project in 2012 and later co-founded Nextcloud. Bj\u00f6rn has a deep knowledge about all technical and legal aspects of Free and Open Source Software. After working for several years as a software engineer he became a sales engineer, using his in-depth knowledge to provide the best possible solutions to our customers.<\/p>\n Jo\u00e3o has been working since 1997 with infrastructure. His main expertise is in Unix (IBM AIX\/Solaris\/HP-UX) and Linux. He's happy in physical, virtual and cloud environments and has experience with global companies and in the banking sector.<\/p>\n Maxime holds a general engineering master degree. He started his career as a process engineer in the industry, before shifting to IT. He aims to provide his customers with secure, quality and highly-reliable systems or products, in an efficient way. A good listener and interested in complex problem solving, Maxime is dedicated to help customers succeed in their projects.<\/p>\n After graduating in Physics in 2011 at University of Pavia, Italy, Pietro has been working as a developer and consultant in the Business Intelligence and Data Analytics sector for many companies across Europe and is now settled in Galicia, Spain. Customer-oriented, self-learner and with a passion in open-source software engineering, Pietro enjoys teaming up with customers to solve complex technical challenges. He also tries to help the general public in forming opinions on the impacts of technology in their life, by spreading concepts and trends around big data, machine learning and the digital economy.<\/p>\n Sebastian studied computer science at the university of applied sciences in Wiesbaden. He is Prince2 and Itil3 certified and has over 14 years experience in consulting and technical pre-sales under his belt, designing customized solutions in the area of business software and cloud services. He has a wide range of interests with a main focus on IT in everyday life like home automation and is passionate about pool billiards<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ el_width=”20″ el_class=”nc_separator_line”]\n\t\t Alba has more than 10 years of experience in the creation and development of communication and marketing strategies. Her passion for building a better place to live leads her to enjoy what she does and take it as a mission. For the last 5 years she has been mentoring recent university graduates and conducts workshops related with leadership and branding. She is committed to creativity and empathy as a key part of her work.<\/p>\n Peter is a passionate web and graphic designer, with a special focus on WordPress and great attention to details like responsive design and SEO. He is responsible for maintaining, updating and optimizing our website. In his free time he loves travelling, discovering new things and cultivating new hobbies such as photography.<\/p>\n Marija hold\u2019s a master's degree in Journalism and Public Relations. She mostly finds her inspiration in the strength of visual delivery of information through photography, as much as she admires the creativity of witty and intelligent writing and finally, a well-executed layout and design.<\/p>\n Fabrice started his career at Dutch central government where he helped executing the Dutch policy for open standards and open source software. Later on Fabrice worked as a sales consultant, manager and entrepreneur in several domains. He developed a profound love for marketing, automation and search engine marketing and worked as a digital marketing specialist on marketing automation and inbound marketing projects.<\/p>\n With an MBA from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Neha has over half a decade experience in sales and marketing roles in SaaS and healthcare. She is passionate about developing and implementing marketing strategies and working with customers.<\/p>\n Marius has been working as an IT Consultant for many big IT companies and startups. Mikaela holds a master's degree in International Business and has much experience in writing and marketing in the IT sector. Originally from the USA, she's been living on and off in Europe since 2016 due to her love for traveling and discovering new cultures. She completed an internship in Germany at TeamViewer as a CMS & Translation intern.<\/p>\nFrank Karlitschek<\/h4>
Chief Executive Officer<\/h5>
Founder | Lives in Berlin, Germany<\/h6>
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Chief Commercial Officer<\/h5>
Sales and Partnerships | Lives in Hannover, Germany<\/h6>
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Director Marketing<\/h5>
Co-founder, Marketing and Communication | Lives in Berlin, Germany<\/h6>
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Head of Finance<\/h5>
Accounting and finance | Lives in Stuttgart, Germany<\/h6>
Oliver Blind-Galties<\/h4>
Sales Director<\/h5>
Sales team | Lives in Schw\u00e4bisch Hall, Germany<\/h6>
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Director Engineering<\/h5>
Software engineering and delivery | Lives in Frankfurt, Germany<\/h6>
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Head of Human Resources<\/h5>
Talent management | Lives in Stuttgart, Germany<\/h6>
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Vanessa Steeg<\/h4>
Account Management team lead<\/h5>
Sales and project management | Lives in Stuttgart, Germany<\/h6>
Fabian Liedtke<\/h4>
Sales manager DACH<\/h5>
Sales and Partnerships | Lives in Hamburg, Germany<\/h6>
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Account manager<\/h5>
Sales | Lives in Heilbronn, Germany<\/h6>
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Senior Key Account Manager<\/h5>
Sales and Partnerships | Toulouse, France<\/h6>
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Viktoria Elvert<\/h4>
Senior key account manager<\/h5>
Sales and Account Management | Lives in Karlsruhe, Germany<\/h6>
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Senior Partner Manager<\/h5>
Sales and partnerships | Lives in Unna, Germany<\/h6>
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Account manager<\/h5>
Business administration | Lives in Hawaii, USA<\/h6>
Markus Windecker<\/h4>
Senior Partner Manager<\/h5>
Sales and partnerships | Lives in Altensteig, Germany<\/h6>
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Account manager<\/h5>
Sales | Lives in Stuttgart, Germany<\/h6>
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Bj\u00f6rn Schie\u00dfle<\/h4>
PreSales Lead<\/h5>
Co-founder, Consulting and Sales | Lives in Stuttgart, Germany<\/h6>
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Sales Engineer<\/h5>
Sales and Customer Relationships | Lives in Taubat\u00e9 - Brazil<\/h6>
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Maxime Le H\u00e9ricy<\/h4>
Sales Engineer<\/h5>
Sales and Customer Relationships | Lives in Nantes area, France<\/h6>
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Senior Sales Engineer<\/h5>
Consulting and Sales | Lives in La Coru\u00f1a, Spain<\/h6>
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Sebastian M\u00f6bus<\/h4>
Sales Engineer<\/h5>
Presales | Wiesbaden, Germany<\/h6>
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Alba Mayoral<\/h4>
Regional Marketing Manager <\/h5>
Marketing and Communication | Lives in Munich, Germany<\/h6>
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Web Designer<\/h5>
Web design and graphics | Lives in Wolnzach, Germany<\/h6>
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Branding and PR Team Lead<\/h5>
PR and design | Lives in Berlin, Germany<\/h6>
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Marketing Manager<\/h5>
Lead generation and SEO | lives in Houten, Netherland<\/h6>
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Marketing manager<\/h5>
Lead geneneration | Lives in Stuttgart, Germany<\/h6>
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Audio\/video editor<\/h5>
Photography, UI graphics and video | Lives in Gelting, Germany<\/h6>
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Content marketing<\/h5>
Stories and writing | Lives in Stuttgart, Germany<\/h6>