Kai Joachim Boyd, CEO
Kai Boyd is the CEO of deal united. He is responsible for promoting the strategic alignment as well as marketing, product management, IT and Finance of the company. Previously Kai was the Head of marketing and product management at deal united where he was in charge of all the activities in branding, public relations and product management. Kai’s extensive experience in the field features six years with Telefonica O2. In the position as Head of Online Sales and Marketing, Boyd optimized and supervised the company’s online portals, directed digital communications and was responsible for the online sales of the multi-billion euro corporation.

Jürgen Weichert, CSO
As Chief Sales Officer and co-founder of deal united, Jürgen is in charge of merchant sales and advertiser marketing. A B2B sales expert, he spent the eight years prior to deal united in various executive and management positions at asknet, a leading global eCommerce service provider for software and other digital goods. During his tenure there, Jürgen helped asknet enter the European and North American markets. He also took part in the launch of a Japanese joint venture with Softbank. Jürgen has been involved in the global internet industry since 1998.

Daniel Shefer, President, deal united Inc.
Daniel manages deal united’s sales and business operations in North America. With 15 years of product, business development and sales experience, he brings a depth and breadth of expertise to his role. Daniel has worked for numerous public and private companies including Cimatron, NetManage, Interwise (acquired by AT&T) and SanDisk. As a business consultant, Daniel helped several foreign startups launch and expand their sales into the European and North American markets.

Oliver Beste
Oliver Beste has over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur, consultant and business angel in the internet, media and consumer goods industries. Oliver co-founded FoundersLink GmbH, making a business out of his passion for encouraging entrepreneurship. In 1999, he co-founded and established myToys.de, which would become the leading internet retailer for children's products in Germany with over €100 million in sales and continuous growth rates above 40%. Before myToys, Oliver gathered broad industry experience during his four years as a consultant with McKinsey.

Jan Borgstädt
Jan Borgstädt is a Principal at Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Before joining BDMI, Mr. Borgstädt was a member of the Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program, working as a consultant on several digital media projects throughout the divisions of Bertelsmann AG. Prior to that, he founded a professional publishing house and later sold it to a major German media group. Mr. Borgstädt graduated from the University of Münster in Germany, where he majored in finance and controlling. He also holds a master’s in marketing from EADA Business School in Spain.

Daniel Gutenberg (Chairman of the Advisory Board)
Daniel Gutenberg is General Partner of VI Partners AG.
After founding Gutenberg Communication Systems AG in 1991, Daniel sold his company to the Telindus Group nine years later and is now an active business angel and investor in numerous startups. He focuses mainly on technology-based enterprises and has been taking board assignments for various public and private companies, as well as for YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization), a network of young global business leaders. Daniel is also the acting president of the Swiss Technion Society.

Romy Schnelle
Romy Schnelle has extensive experience in business development as well as international sales and distributions. She is also an expert on the founding of small enterprises in the information and media technology, business software, digital media and gaming sectors. Before joining High-Tech Gränderfonds, she worked as a business developer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology. Romy specialized in media management during her studies at the Technical University of Ilmenau, graduating with a degree in journalism and media studies.

Christian Winter
Christian Winter is the Spokesperson of the board of Tengelmann E-Commerce GmbH, Tengelmann Ventures GmbH as well as Plus Online GmbH. Winter began his career at Douglas Holding AG, where he launched the websites douglas.de and douglascosmetics.com. Afterwards Winter became a co-founder and chairman at gatrixx AG, where he designed finanztreff.de, one of the strongest financial portals on the Internet. In January 2008, after working at IBM and Pironet NDH AG, Winter came to Karstadt as CEO, where he was responsible for the e-commerce sector.