Jeff CoePartner Responsibilities: Deal sourcing, strategic and business development, expansion/growth management, mentoring, marketing Background: Since 1996, Jeff Coe has worked with a number of established and emerging technologies from concept to maturity. He was responsible for developing and expanding several technology companies including Mercury Mobility LTD and sevenload GmbH into multiple countries and technology sectors. His core expertise lies within the internet and mobile space primarily that of entertainment, and has brokered several landmark business deals between traditional media and new media including the first major music ringtone deal in Australia. Jeff co-founded Halfahead, a pioneer digital music platform in Europe which was the first legal music platform in Scandinavia featuring record label content. In 2003, Jeff co-founded Mercury Mobility, a mobile entertainment company in Australia which saw a successful stock listing in 2007. Post IPO, Jeff migrated to Europe and began investing in European businesses. Most recently, Jeff was a Director at sevenload, a European video portal start up and was responsible for international expansion of the product. Jeff is currently a shareholder and investor in sevenload. His core focus is to alleviate growing pains and shorten the growth cycle as much as possible to improve their early success in the market. Jeff is a regular speaker at ICT and VC events including The Next Web 2009, SIME 2008 and SuperNova2008. // Twitter: http://twitter.com/hrcolors
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Björn von SiemensPartner Responsibilities: University partnerships, corporate social responsibility, deal sourcing, strategic advice and networking Background: Björn von Siemens is an entrepreneur, business angel and Ph.D. Fellow at the University of St. Gallen and Harvard University. He earned his M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and B.Sc. from European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, where he graduated in the top 3% and 10% of his class respectively. Björn previously advised corporate clients through both the Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. He also developed expertise in private equity at Droege & Company and business development at Siemens AG. Björn currently sits on the advisory board of several new ventures in the media-technology, bio-tech and gastronomy sectors, offering a deep knowledge of applied academic theory and extensive professional network.
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Marcel HollerbachPartner Responsibilities: Technology expert, business mentoring, technical due dilligence, online-marketing Background: Marcel Hollerbach is a serial entrepreneur and business angel. He is the founder and CEO of efamous (www.efamous.de) an online media company based in Berlin and has previously done IT consulting for law firms like Hengeler Mueller. Until 2009 he was founder and CEO of new.fm, an online music and media distribution network. Previous to that he was also non-executive co-founder of hiClip.tv, a video technology and advertising company sold to Adconion Media Group in 2008. Mr. Hollerbach studied Business Information Systems (Bachelor of Science) in Würzburg and at Stanford University. // Blog: http://www.marcelhollerbach.de
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Dominik MatykaVenture Partner Responsibilities: Deal Sourcing, networking, business mentoring Background: Dominik Matyka is a serial entrepreneur and business angel. He is the founder and CEO of plista.com, a personalization and recommendation startup company from Berlin. Previous to that he was non-executive co-founder of hiClip.tv, a video technology and advertising company sold to Adconion Media Group and new.fm, an online music and media distribution network. Aside he’s Ph.D. student at the University of St. Gallen in media and communication and business angel with u25 ventures GmbH. Mr. Matyka holds a M.Sc. innovation and technology management from the University of Vienna and Cass Business School, London. // Twitter: http://twitter.com/dominikmatyka
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Christian EdlerPartner Responsibilities: Fundraising, marketing and sales expert, networking for portfolio companies Background: Christian Edler is a very successful entrepreneur in the financial services sector and a private investor in the technology, web and media sector.
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Dr. Holger MüllerPartner Responsibilities: Deal Sourcing, legal expert, start-up mentoring Dr. Holger Müller is admitted to practice as an attorney and Specialist Attorney for Trade and Corporate Law at the Berlin Bar Association. After completing his legal studies at the University of Heidelberg and Münster in Germany (1990-1994), he obtained a Master of Laws (LL. M.) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1994/95 and a Ph.D. at the University of Münster in 1998. Today, he practices law as a partner of the law firm Schlüschen Müller (offices in Berlin and Vancouver, Canada). His previous employers are Lovells, Hogan & Hartson, Sportgate and eBay.
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Katie TongVenture Associate Responsibilities: New York City relationship management, university partnerships, deal sourcing, strategic communications Katie Tong earned her MBA at Harvard Business School and studied international political economy at the University of North Carolina. She is the founding member of a public relations consultancy, and has helped numerous start-ups with their businessplan development and growth strategy. She previously advised senior government officials on issues related to international finance and macroeconomic policy while an economic analyst at a Washington, DC thinktank.
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Advisory boardThe Linden Ventures partnership is supported by an active advisory board, comprising high profile entrepreneurs such as Paulus Neef, as well as board memembers of German blue chip media companies, such as Bertelsmann AG.
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