Meet the Cobrainer Team

Hanns-Bertin Aderhold

Chief Executive Officer

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. 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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Saša Savić

Chief Sales Officer

As a passionate salesman of 17 years, Saša has made it his mission to tell the stories of great solutions. With 14 years in sales leadership, he will take to the road to tell the world of new possibilities in HR and empower employees with true career confidence. This traveling and tennis fanatic with roots in Croatia and Serbia is a real international and no joke, even sneaked on stage once with the Backstreet Boys!

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Julian Baumann

Chief Marketing Officer

As the mastermind of creative and strategic communications, Julian embodies the very definition of a remarkable career. Early on, he pivoted from linguistics and physics into the world of marketing. With no discipline untouched, Julian's marketing experience inspires. Over 6 years, he propelled tech startup Celonis into the stratosphere with Celosphere, earning numerous accolades and double-digit billion dollar valuation.

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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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Thomas Andrae

Co-Founder

As a co-founder and mentor, Thomas has been a big part of the Cobrainer journey since day one. He regularly shares his knowledge in building tech companies with our team to maximize our product value and execution speed. Working with Cobrainer, he enjoys driving the workforce transformation efforts that strengthen our clients' market position.

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Gregor Bieler

Investor

The European head of the software company Aparavi has been supporting Cobrainer with his global market expertise since 2013. He is one of the most respected pioneers of digital business and culture transformation and has already achieved significant sales and marketing successes for companies such as Microsoft, Logitech Europe and Paypal. With his know-how and connections in the software industry, he enriches our partner network.

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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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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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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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Jan Mark Lingthaler

Customer Success Executive

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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Ines Reitter

Customer Success Manager

With a strong sense of empathy, proactive communication and diverse customer demands, Ines loves close exchanges with business partners. With a M.A. in International Business & Management, her career took her around the world with the aviation industry, landing at Cobrainer in 2021. Ines is passionate about travelling, hiking and cooking – especially southeast Asian dishes – an obvious link to her time living in Thailand.

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Torsten Labusch

Technical Presales Executive

With a passion for learning new topics, Torsten loves challenges. For Cobrainer, the technology fan with years of sales experience takes on responsibility of all technical matters during the sales process and ensures that customer requirements are optimally mastered. In his free time, the family man enjoys his other passion of cooking, barbecuing with friends and testing out new photo equipment.

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Verena Liebhart

Customer Success Manager

With a dedication to customers reaching their goals, Verena is on a mission to transform HR for the 21st century. While a true ‘Münchner Kindl’ at heart, Verena has lived and traveled throughout the USA. Graduating with a BSBA and a MBA from Colorado State University, she went on to put her skills to work, managing top clients, such as Slack and Cisco. In her free time, she loves to travel, play golf and ride horses.

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Wilfried Pasquazzo

Backend Engineer

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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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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Akhil Tummala

QA Engineer

His professional passion – computer science – inspired Akhil to travel the world: from Kakindada, India, to Sweden and Germany. Working at Ericsson, he took a liking to Quality Assurance and Testing and gained his first experience. Up for new challenges, he joined Cobrainer to bring QA to the next level. After days full of UI Test Automation and Manual Testing, he likes doing an intense workout.

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Polina Popova

QA Lead

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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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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Leonie Schwaiger

Content Marketing Manager

As a content and marketing allrounder, Leonie is always looking for the best story to tell. The graduate online editor and experienced video journalist told stories for the fashion industry and the content team for the Munich-based SaaS startup Personio. She loves good food and discovering new places. For Cobrainer, she creates unique and inspiring social media content and marketing campaigns for all communication channels.

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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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Vlad Lazar

Frontend Lead

Thanks to a diverse background, Vlad has dived deep into computational geometry, model visualisation, big data analytics, and user interface engineering. The simplicity and beauty of software development inspire the native Romanian – from design to implementation. His mission: find novel approaches to make it easy for people to work with complex data. An advocate of the unorthodox, he is happy to leave the beaten path.

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Denis Harsch

Partner Strategy Executive

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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Kangle Li

SRE

After studying information and communication technology, Kangle worked as a Research Engineer in the sensor data processing field in her homeland China. Machine learning and deep learning in the AI field are among her major areas of interest. That's what makes her a perfect match for Cobrainer: Since 2021, she is responsible for software product operation and deployment.

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Ogün Öz

Machine Learning Engineer

After getting his BSc in Computer Science, Ogün worked as a Software Engineer in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2018, he moved to Munich to pursue his master’s degree and specialized in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. At Cobrainer, he is the man in charge of developing skill tagging systems for multilingual knowledge bases using AI techniques. His favorite hobbies? Listening to old-school hip hop and playing piano.

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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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Hossain Mahmud

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

As the lead machine learning engineer at Cobrainer, Hossain takes on responsibility for the whole ML tech stack. With multiple computer science degrees from BUET, Dhaka and TUM, Munich, he came to Munich to ply his trade at the EU-flagship Human Brain Project and a German OTT streaming service - Joyn. With a solid home base in the center of Europe, Hossain satiates his "Wanderlust" by exploring the world and working on the go.

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Tim Koch

Enterprise Account Executive

With more than a decade of sales experience, including heading up the Central Europe region for Free Now, Tim delivers the message of remarkable careers as Cobrainer's sales aficionado. He loves to negotiate and has a competitive drive to win. An enthusiastic tennis player, Tim is a real people-person, music lover and enjoys spending time with his family!

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Dennis Knauer

Sales Operations Executive

Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Dennis has always shown an interest in sales, from retail to mobile SaaS, only later moving to Hamburg, Germany to study International Business. His passion for the trade has only grown with time, as he built up expertise in key accounts and partnerships and by seeing positive impact of his actions on people's lives. As a tried and true traveler, Dennis craves sunny weather, delicious foods, and great friends.

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Nadine Wöhning

Business Development Representative

With a 6-year track record at Free Now, Nadine brings her experience as Hospitality Team lead to Cobrainer, to take up the reins as a Business Development Representative. Her love of pasta is unrivaled, her ideal vacation is on a beach and she holds a strong passion for family and friends. She started her career as an office administrator for the German Ski Association, despite having not once stood on skis herself.

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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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Stefan Kolbeck

Partner 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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Lucas Petes

Product Design Lead

Since day one, Lucas is passionate about crafting meaningful experiences for people. Born and raised in Brazil, he lived in Dublin for a while before moving to Munich. He loves the intersection of technology and liberal arts and has a huge curiosity about architecture, cities, politics and society. Now and then, he ventures into watercolors painting, and is sure he will always be a terrible football player.

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Lisa Decker

Junior Product Owner

With five years of experience in the OTT streaming industry, Lisa's remarkable career spans communications, customer service and even the more technical product management. Her time working with customers regularly proves useful with her a unique perspective on user requirements in her role as a product owner. Before jumping into her career, Lisa experienced life in New Zealand as an Au Pair and even dared to go bungie jumping.

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Krasimir Popov

SRE Lead

With a long operational track record in scaling large websites, Krasimir has thrust the Cobrainer team into fast growing, rapidly changing software architecture, processes and innovative cloud solutions. With a history in telecom and tech companies, he has built a large variety of complex IT services and solutions. When not behind the screen he enjoys hiking, biking, tennis and kicker. Last but not least, he cooks like a real chef.

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Manuel Wallnöfer

Account Executive

The epitome of a remarkable career, Manuel started off as a developer. Then he discovered a passion for sales. And how... as he's plied his trade for 6 years at Dynatrace. After amassing more than 15 years in IT, Manu's love for interacting with people motivated him to join Cobrainer, where he can empower others to level up their career. In his free time, he scratches the triathlon itch, leveling himself up for the next big race!

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Jasmin Zec Peškirič

Enterprise Account Executive

Professional development, optimization and the constant drive to level up are Jassy's greatest priorities. She has driven the digitalization of companies for almost 20 years. With roots in tourism, she pivoted to discover her heart beats for the software industry. She loves her wife's slovenian accent, her four-legged companion's need for cuddling, sun on her face, tango and friends cheering on the dance floor.

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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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