Ulrich Hegge

Uli Hegge (born '66) started, while attending Law School in Muenster, "DaWIN" in 1991 - then one of the biggest European Internet projects with the German Scientific Network DFN. With other partners he founded the computer trade magazine "UpToDate" (80,000 circulation). After graduating from Law School he was co-responsible for setting up online activities with both the German newspaper “Schweriner Zeitung” (Burda) in 1994 and from 1995 at Gruner & Jahr. He started stern.de (http://stern.de) and conceptualized Fireball (leading German Web search engine, became part of Lycos Europe). In 1997 he was appointed Member of Management Board at G+J EMS. In 1998 Hegge co-founded and lead e-dict (eCommerce entertainment applications - sold to Gauselmann Group) as Managing Partner. In 1999 he co-founded wunderloop and headed the company as CEO until 2008. At the time of his departure wunderloop was the European market leader for online marketing targeting technologies. wunderloop was sold to to world market leader AudienceScience in 2010. He continued his career as Managing Director of Hubert Burda Media’s Media Innovation Lab and Burda Information Services until 2010. He's busy helping companies in the digital marketing space to set themselves up and grow as quickly as possible on an international level. From January 2013 until September 2014 he served as CSO at comdirect bank AG, responsible for Marketing, Sales, Product Management and Advisory Services. References and contacts are available at request. Specialties: Understanding and foreseeing strategic iniatives in Digital Media - and translating into technology products.