We are a team of experienced movers and shakers and executives who have been dealing with many facets of the topic “digital” for 15 years. In the middle of the 90’s we started to understand the internet with its possibilities inwards and outwards and to learn from internet pioneers like eBay, Paypal, Google, Rocket, Groupon, mobile.de, rakuten from the bottom up. What we could not make there in experiences, we have learned in several self-established enterprises or new business areas in Germany and Switzerland. In this way, the largest Swiss marketplace (siroop.ch – now mircrospot.ch) or the largest German online new car market at mobile.de was created.
We have learned and proven several times that we can test completely digital new or profiting business areas, successfully build them up and carefully embed and scale them into a larger organisation:
email: tom.hinzdorf@sophus-group.de
mobile: +49 151 526 615 02
email: falko.kaps@sophus-group.de
mobile: +49 163 170 44 10
Falko has been working for digital retailers and marketplaces from the beginning. He has led Groupon (Rocket Venture), Rakuten, Home24 (Rocket Venture) and Siroop in relevant areas.
He has always been concerned with data structures, data exchange and processes. The design and analysis of processes as well as the holistic consideration and improvement of distributed process landscapes are at the core of his work.
His expertise ranges from the integration of digital payment methods, digital invoicing, internal data exchange to digital customer and supplier communication.
email: fabian.gerstung@sophus-group.de
mobile: +49 177 932 41 20
email: andreas.mueller@sophus-group.de
mobile: +49 176 726 470 36
Since 2001, Andreas has been mainly involved in the development and expansion of e-commerce channels and is our specialist in the areas of category management, purchasing management, content management, as well as the development and management of agile and cross-functional teams.
Following his slogan “empowerment is the key to success”, he is predestined for the development of new corporate cultures, especially with the employee generations Generation Y (Millennials) and Generation Z.
Andreas was able to prove himself successfully with his work for the digitalization of retail companies as well as marketplaces.
His CV includes companies such as siroop.ch, Microspot.ch, Interdiscount.ch, keller-sports.com and many more.
email: varun.thunuguntla@sophus-group.de
mobile: +49 174 844 83 45
Varun is our expert for the topics “Mobile” and “Online-Marketing”. Equipped with a master’s degree from the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Varun initially worked for Google for several years and developed into an expert in “online marketing”. Via Paris – where he worked at General Electric – Varun came to Berlin in 2012, where he was responsible for mobile marketing at Zalando. Other stations where Varun’s online and mobile marketing skills were used were Aeria Games Europe GmbH (ProSieben Sat1.), MeteoGroup in Berlin and IDAGIO GmbH (largest streaming service for classical music). There, as Director Marketing, he was responsible for large teams and marketing budgets and was an essential guarantee of success for the international growth of these start-ups. If you would like to experience Varun “live”, you can do so under the following links:
App Growth Summit – Multi Touch Attribution & PBA: https://player.vimeo.com/video/338954411
Appdays Speaker Session – “Making Weather Matter”: https://youtu.be/XGBVSCaauJo
Developers Alliance – ‘Then vs. Now: Next Generation Marketing tactics to grow your mobile app’: https://youtu.be/8_ZY-O7fHBo