Congratulations to the voted winner Kidsorted and runner-up Zana, as well as FinCompare that already wowed a jury during our special FinTech competition.
They will all present their ventures on the main stage of our upcoming NOAH Conference in London on 30-31 October.
Julia Brucher, Founder & CEO
Julia has extensive e-commerce, marketplaces and digital marketing experience. She was previously Head of Marketing EMEA at Stella & Dot, led the eBay Fashion Outlet for UK and Germany, launched the first E-Commerce Online Store of the Middle East, Boutique1.com (Dubai based multi-brand luxury fashion retailer), and was Managing Director at Mythresa.com (bought by Neiman Marcus):
“I am on a mission to channel my passion and perseverance to make the KIDSORTED vision reality. As a general manager, I know how to run a business top to bottom, and my extensive marketplace & ecommerce experience give me exceptional industry know-how. Every day I set out to inspire enthusiasm in both the team and our partners, and my laser focus is on growing the KIDSORTED parent community.”
Julia Hoxha, Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. -Ing. Julia Hoxha: former postdoctoral research scientist in Medical Informatics at Columbia University, and former research associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Author of numerous scientific publications on the intersection of machine learning, recommender systems, and semantic technologies.
Co-founded and led as CTO the software development company ShqiperiaCom; co-founder & senior advisor of the Albanian Institute of Science; founder of MyOffice’Al.
Stephan Heller, Founder & CEO
Stephan Heller is the founder and managing director of FinCompare GmbH, a fast-growing online platform for SME financing. Before he founded Watchmaster in 2015, where he led the European trading platform for new and used luxury watches for a year as CEO, thus shaping the digital transformation of the watch market. Previously, Stephan worked for Groupon, most recently from 2013 to 2015 as Head of Merchant Marketing in London. Further career assignments were as investment analyst at the investment company Waterland and as management consultant at the global strategy consultancy Roland Berger. Stephan Heller also worked for BMW in Tokyo and for UBS in London and holds a bachelor’s degree in communication science from the University of Vienna and a master’s degree in international management from ESCP Europe in Paris, London and Berlin.
30-31 October 2018
