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Christopher has over 10 years of start-up experience. He spent 4 years in several roles at Airbnb, both in Europe and San Francisco. He acted as the company’s General Manager for Central Europe and built teams in global Finance and European Operations. Prior to joining Airbnb, he helped  grow Zalando and founded Springstar, a Berlin-based incubator.

Christopher is in the middle of a multi-year project of building a house in his native country of Sweden.

After selling his startup to Airbnb in 2011, Georg spent more than 4.5 years with the company where he worked on International Growth. He launched several international offices and built teams, including the Airbnb EU HQ in Dublin and Airbnb’s Trip business unit in San Francisco.

At Expansion Partner Georg follows his dream of bringing German quality and efficiency to all internationalization projects.
Georg cannot start and end a day without a bowl of ‘Müsli’.

Stefan brings to the table international experience of setting up digital businesses beyond Europe.

He founded the first VC backed e-commerce company in Myanmar, launched and managed the Thailand office of a German medtech startup and advised international firms on market entry strategies to Thailand.

Stefan loves to learn about new business cultures as much as the famous German bread.

Claudia’s background is in strategy consulting and market research, where she advised clients in sectors from e-commerce to caravans and frozen food to baby accessories on market entry and internationalization. She has an undergraduate degree from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD.

She is known to moonlight as a yoga teacher, and true to her British roots, believes there are very few difficult situations that can’t be improved by a cup of tea (earl grey, milk, no sugar).

Ercan worked 5 years at Fresenius Medical Care before moving to Barcelona. After 2 years and back in Germany he first finished his studies in information sciences in Potsdam and played a leading role in kickstarting Berlin-based startups into business afterwards.

“Air Jan” spends a significant amount of time on his bike and his ambitious goal is to ride on every single street of Berlin until 2020.

Jonathan helps our clients on quantitative aspects of their expansion plans.

Previously, Jonathan was an intern at N26, which he helped with entering new markets in Europe. He gained U.S. experience at EY in Detroit. He recently completed his Masters’ degree at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on eye-based human-computer interaction.

Outside the office, he loves to play the cello and still participates in his former university’s orchestra.