Markus is a Partner and heads up the Berlin Studio of McKinsey Digital. An experienced digital entrepreneur and manager, he has been involved in building and running some of Germany's most successful digital start-ups. He has both a business background and programming expertise, giving him the ability to bridge C-suite strategy discussions with technology-design debates. In his executive roles, Markus has built and run organizations of 700-plus people, guiding them through both fast growth periods and also turnaround situations. His focus has been on building great customer value propositions and constantly improving them based on a sound setup of metrics. He is also passionate about building up and improving digital organizations, particularly around agile and design thinking. His hands-on experience introducing agile in companies lets him understand what it takes to make an organization agile from a management perspective.

Frederik ist Rechtsanwalt bei SMP. Er ist auf gesellschaftsrechtliche Fragestellungen, M&A und Venture Capital Transaktionen spezialisiert. Zu seinen Mandanten zählen Investoren, Start-ups, sowie große Konzerne. Frederik studierte Rechtswissenschaften in Berlin und Kiel, sowie Law und Management an der Universität St. Gallen. Er begann seine Karriere bei Hengeler Mueller in Frankfurt und Düsseldorf. Vor SMP war er Senior Legal Counsel beim FinTech Raisin und gründete das LegalTech Start-Up wenigermiete.de (CONNY). Frederik wird von Chambers & Partners FinTech Legal Guide als “Notable Practitioner” empfohlen. Außerdem zählt er laut Best Lawyers® zu den besten Anwälten Deutschlands für M&A.

Michael is a serial entrepreneur based between Cambridge & London. His first business was a peer-to-peer letting business in the Netherlands in the early 2000's. The second was Poq, a London based $10m revenue software-as-a-service platform for mobile shopping, powering the apps of some of the largest retailers in the world. The company has grown to 100 people over 10 years out of UCL where Michael holds an MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship. Michael left Poq at the beginning of 2020 to start a venture builder to tackle climate change, called Carbon13. 

Maximilian Vocke ist Rechtsanwalt für M&A und Venture Capital im Berliner Büro von Osborne Clarke. Er berät Fonds, Investoren, Unternehmen und Start-ups in allen Fragen des Gesellschaftsrechts, von der Gründung über Finanzierungen bis hin zum Exit, einschließlich M&A.