Carsten BrinkschulteCo Founder

Germany - Berlin Metropolitan Area

Serial entrepreneur, visionary senior executive combining deep technical background, strategic thinking with a marketing & sales track-record building and leading sales teams and winning high-prized contracts with tier-1 customers in the mobile industry. Extensive experience in building, restructuring and scaling companies from first hire to international market leaders with 380 employees and $30m turnover. Designed and established category-leading products in various mobile market segments. Multiple fundraisings in private and public markets combined with extensive experience in M&A on both seller and buyer side. Articulate communicator with extensive network to decision makers in the international mobile industry.

Career Highlights

* Repositioned and scaled privately owned Core Network Dynamics GmbH with 13 OEM agreements, doubling revenue within 12 months. Sold to Twilio for $13.2m.
* Turnaround of Movirtu focusing on enterprise BYOD solution for operators. Built $12m pipeline mobile operators in 6 months. Sold to BlackBerry for $32.5m after 18 months with 3x return for investors.
* Turnaround, complete restructuring and refinancing of public company Synchronica plc. Built & led international sales team, growing to $30M revenue with 90 operator and 10 device manufacturers customers. Four strategic acquisitions and multiple fundraisings in public markets leading to trade-sale.
* Led startup of Weblicon raising €1.5M in seed funding. Created market-leading mobile email and synchronization software. Won key customers including operators KPN Mobile and E-Plus.