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Hanns-Bertin Aderhold

Managing Director

Hanns grew up in the US, Germany, and China. He studied architectural engineering and design at Technische Universität München, led engineering projects both in the EMEA and APAC region, and worked as an analyst in the venture capital field. Hanns is the managing director of Cobrainer.

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Dr.-Ing. Martin Kiechle

Head of Technology

Martin has extensive working experiences in China and studied information technology and technology management at Technische Universität München and UC Berkeley. He is a researcher at the TUM Research Group for Geometric Optimization and Machine Learning and Cobrainer’s head of technology.

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Anton Zering

Head of Software

Anton was born in Yurga, Russia and later moved to Germany where he started building software professionally at secondary school. Anton studied computer science at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is head of software at Cobrainer.

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Dr.-Ing. Sarath Kumar Kondreddi

Head of Knowledge

Sarath has been an active researcher in the fields of knowledge acquisition, crowdsourcing and gamification. Prior to Cobrainer, he obtained his PhD from the Databases and Information Systems group at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany. Sarath takes immense interest in building systems for big data processing and analytics. Sarath is Cobrainer’s head of knowledge.

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Claudia Heiber

(Interim) Chief Human Resources Officer

Claudia brings a long track record in strategic and operational HR management as HR Director and Project Manager in international companies. Since 2010, she has been supporting companies as an interim manager in conceptual HR work. Her special field: development and growth support, organizational and cultural development & supporting managers and employees as a sparring partner in their day-to-day work. Born in Munich, she likes to spend her free time outdoors and in action – especially in the mountains on her bike.

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Marian Tam

Senior Manager Controlling and Finance

Marian was born in Hong Kong, grew up in San Francisco, California, lived in Seoul, Korea, and now living in Munich, Germany. She received her MBA from the University of San Francisco in Finance and International Business, and a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from San Francisco State University. Prior to Cobrainer, she worked in strategic analysis and financial planning for major investment management firms. Marian is senior manager controlling and finance at Cobrainer.

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Ashish Bhatt

Software Engineer

Born in India, Ashish completed his Masters in Databases and Information Systems from IIIT-Bangalore, India. His project exposure reaches from design & development, documentation, to testing and implementation. After working with Intuit and Randstad's Risesmart, Ashish joined Cobrainer as a key part of the Software Engineering team to develop the core business logic.

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Orhan Yesilöz

Product Manager

Orhan studied Business Management at the University of Cologne and Information Systems at the London School of Economics. Before Cobrainer, he lived in London, New York, and San Francisco for study and work purposes. He is a coding enthusiast, loves design and is eager to build engaging products. Orhan is Product Manager at Cobrainer.

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Josh Taboga

Senior Content Marketing Manager

Born & raised in cowboy country - Wyoming, USA - Josh enjoys the occasional honky tonk song, but in his heart is a real international. He collected experience in marketing and communications at several startups in the DACH region. Considering himself a “Linguino” Josh is interested in languages. While the terms bike, hike, run and swim round out his hobbies

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Polina Popova

Software QA Engineer

Polina was born and grew up in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She moved to Munich in August 2018 to join Cobrainer’s team. Polina finished a degree in Applied Informatics at Saint-Petersburg State University and then worked as a QA Engineer and team leader for an enterprise software company with a focus on SaaS applications development. Responsible for Cobrainer’s Software Quality Assurance, she concentrates on testing and test automation.

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Denis Harsch

Entrepreneur In Residence

Denis is a startup enthusiast with vast academic and professional experience in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Brazil, Colombia, Germany and Spain. Prior, Denis worked with Daimler AG during his studies in mechanical engineering. Denis holds a MSc in Innovation & Entrepreneur from ESADE Business School and a CEMS MSc in International Management.

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Mercedes Hauptkorn

Office Manager

A fan of the dynamic startup culture, Mercedes is an organizational talent. Prior to Cobrainer, she worked as an Executive Assistant and Office Manager at different B2B SaaS companies and has extensive experience in the security industry. As a bonus, she has management experience in hospitality as well. She is a real bookworm, totalling over 6000 ebooks, and a workout fanatic.

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Johannes Kapsreiter

Junior Accountant

After his initial experience as a tax consultant, the native of lower Bavaria opted for a change with a move to Munich to work in Cobrainer’s international startup atmosphere. Interested in all kinds of sports, Johannes enjoys playing schafkopf in social gatherings, beach volleyball at the lake and watching soccer matches of his hometown club.

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Jan Mark Lingthaler

Customer Success

Constantly challenging the status quo, Jan Mark loves the fast changing environment in startups. Prior to Cobrainer, Jan Mark worked in several B2B startups focusing on customer success, product and operations. He also co-founded the social association Enidaso. Jan Mark graduated from ESADE Business School with a MSc. in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and holds a CEMS MSc in International Management. Being close to the Alps Jan Mark enjoys skiing and hiking in his free time.

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Akhil Tummala

Quality Assurance Engineer

His professional passion – computer science – made Akhil travel the world: from Kakindada, India, to Sweden and now Germany. While working for Ericsson, he took a liking to Quality Assurance and Testing and gained first experience in this field. Interested in the startup scene and up to new challenges, he joined Cobrainer to bring Quality Assurance to the next level. As a relaxing balance to his workdays full of UI test automation and manual testing, he likes watching horror movies, doing an intense workout or hiking.

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Liyan Jiang

Data Engineer

Liyan was born and grew up in Xiamen, China. After her Bachelor’s studies in Software Engineering she moved to Germany to pursue a Master’s degree in Informatics at Technical University of Munich. During her studies, she gained experiences in data engineering and natural language processing as a working student. As a data engineer at Cobrainer, she is responsible for further enhance the Cobrainer skill graph.

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Leonie Schwaiger

Content Marketing Manager

Leonie is a content and marketing allrounder – always looking for the best story to tell. After finishing her studies to become an online editor in Cologne, she worked in marketing for the fair fashion industry and in the content team for Personio. Whenever she can, she loves cooking, being creative and travelling the world. For Cobrainer, she is combining her passions to plan and create unique and inspiring content for all of our communication channels.

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Steve Hilbert

Head of Recruiting

Steve was born in Luxembourg and moved to Munich, Germany in 2015. He initially studied Hospitality Management at the university of Glion in Switzerland and later changed careers to Human Resources upon arrival to Munich. Steve has worked with several startups where he learned everything he knows about recruiting. Curious of getting to know the corporate culture, he took on a job with BMW. After three years, Steve decided that it was time to go back to the startup environment to help with setting up Human Resource departments.

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Ogün Öz

Machine Learning Engineer

Ogün was born in Ankara, Turkey. After he got his BSc in Computer Science, he worked as a Software Engineer in Istanbul. In 2018, he moved to Munich to pursue his master’s degree at the Technical University of Munich and specialized in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. At Cobrainer, he works as an ML Engineer and is responsible for developing skill tagging systems for multilingual knowledge bases using AI techniques. Listening to old-school hip hop and playing piano are among his favorite hobbies.

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Stefan Kolbeck

Junior Business Development Manager

Stefan holds a B.Sc. in Management & Technology. He is currently in his Master's program at the Technical University of Munich. During his bachelor's, he worked for a Munich startup, a digital innovation and transformation consultancy, and an OES. At Cobrainer, Stefan supports the business team as a working student to enable faster growth, manage existing partners, and generate new leads.

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Donika Morina

Data Curation Analyst

Donika was born and raised in Munich, Germany with Albanian roots. After initially studying business administration, she currently pursues a Bachelor's degree in mathematical economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. At Cobrainer Donika helps as a working student with Data curations.

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Anna Kohler

Data Curation Analyst

Anna did a B. Sc. in Business Administration and another one in Computational Linguistics (with a minor with Language, Literature and Culture) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Now she is in her M. Sc. for Business Administration also at LMU Munich. Her interest lies in creating business-relevant insights through data analysis. She worked extensively with data both for university projects and during an internship at Infineon Technologies in Munich. At Cobrainer she is responsible for data curation.

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Wilfried Pasquazzo

Backend Software Developer

Wilfried was born and raised in Innsbruck, Austria. Got his BSc in Computer Science at the Universität Innsbruck. Took off his career as a software developer of online banking solutions for several Austrian Banks. Recently moved to Munich to gain more experience in the FinTech industry. At Cobrainer, Wilfried supports the Application Team as a backend developer engineer. His hobbies include biking, running, and playing video games.

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Cobrainer is a multicultural team of talented individuals on a mission to rethink how we navigate our careers.

Cobrainer is a multicultural team of talented individuals on a mission to rethink how we navigate our careers.

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