At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Germany based COO’ operating in the Consulting space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ishan Palit
COO, CEO, TÜV SÜD Asia Pacific of TUV SUD
Ishan Palit was born in Mumbai, India and educated in the US and UK. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Davidson College, USA, a General Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, UK, and a Masters in Business Administration from Georgia Southern University, USA. Ishan Palit joined the TÜV SÜD Group in 1994 and founded the Indian Operations. In January 2008, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO), followed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TÜV SÜD Asia Pacific. He was appointed CEO of TÜV SÜD Product Service Division responsible for the corporate and strategic direction of the Division worldwide in August 2011.
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About TUV SUD: TUV SUD is an international service corporation focusing on testing, inspection and certification for the safety of the world.
Cassi Welling
Chief Operating Officer of Hawa Dawa
Cassi Welling is an accelerator manager at Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest climate innovation initiative. Supported and financed by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), Climate-KIC drives innovation through creating partnerships which bring climate innovations to market, supporting climate driven entrepreneurship and offering education to students and professionals to deepen innovation and business insight and practice. As one arm of Europe’s largest clean-tech accelerator, the German Accelerator programme has supported the likes of Thermondo and Tado° and others in levering over €100m worth of external investment and supports clean-tech teams active across e-mobility, renewable energy, energy efficiency, water, resource and waste management, production and beyond. In Berlin, we have our own co-working space and support teams with grants, a curriculum of training and coaching and investor and partner matchmaking.
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About Hawa Dawa: Hawa Dawa manufactures and develops air quality monitoring systems.
Martina Heinzle
Co-Founder and COO of Cheetah Conversions
Martina Heinzle is the Co-Founder and COO of Cheetah Conversions.
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About Cheetah Conversions: Cheetah Conversions is a marketing agency focused on paid social, paid search, and paid marketing channels.
Erik Walter
COO of Infinigate
Erik Walter has been the COO of Infinigate since September 2012. He had already been with Infinigate between 2000 and 2003 where he held the position of Managing Director of Infinigate Germany. Prior to rejoining Infinigate, Erik Walter held management positions at Tech Data, Magirus and most recently at Arrows ECS where he served as Managing Director Germany. Erik Walter has a degree in Business Administration from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.
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About Infinigate: Infinigate is most important Value Added Distributor (VAD) with a sole focus on IT Security.
Paul Kaffsack
COO & Co-Founder of Myra Security
Paul Kaffsack is co-founder of Myra Security GmbH. As COO he manages the operational business. Together with Sascha Schumann he is also responsible for the strategic development of the company. In his role as COO Paul attaches utmost importance to customer satisfaction. Paul Kaffsack has worked in the e-commerce industry for 17 years. He is one of the online commerce pioneers. Paul speaks regularly at international conferences about the latest IT security and e-commerce topics. Furthermore, he provides expert advice to companies and startups in making their e-commerce business successful. The e-commerce expert has built up web companies such as Baby-Markt.de and helped with brand building at preis24.de as CMO. Paul was also the head of the international business unit e-commerce at NKD.
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About Myra Security: Myra offers a secure, certified Security-as-a-Service platform for protecting digital business processes.
Miguel Lordelo
Founder & COO of VisionSpace Technologies
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About Vision Tech Lab, VisionSpace Technologies: VisionSpace Technologies is a satellite developer that partners with ground station monitoring solutions.
Miguel Lordelo
Founder & COO of VisionSpace Technologies
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About Vision Tech Lab, VisionSpace Technologies: VisionSpace Technologies is a satellite developer that partners with ground station monitoring solutions.
Jurist Jens Becker
COO of IurFRIEND
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About IurFRIEND: IurFRIEND is Germany’s first curated legal shopping company.
Silke Steffan
COO of d3media
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About d3media: Full-service to self-service data-driven programmatic advertising.