Shopgate is managed by a highly experiences team of serial entrepreneuers striving for innovation always connected to a clear customer value:
Ortwin Kartmann, Founder and CEO
Ortwin has studied business engineering at the FH-Giessen-Friedberg and is a serial entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience.
1997 - Founder of Referate.de (at that time approx. 20.000 visits / day)
2001 - Founder of People.de Network GmbH (at that time a community with 300.000 members)
2002 - Founder of Shopping55.de Netwerk (at that time 1 Mio. sales / month)
2004 - Founder of the payment method SOFORT.com (Payment Network AG)
2005 - Founder Promido Internet GmbH (several Web 2.0 projects)
2008 - Founder Simty GmbH (buy parking tickets with your phone)
2009 - Founder Shopgate GmbH (mobile shopping leader in Germany)
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Andrea Anderheggen, Founder and CEO
Andrea has studies philosophy and finance at the University of Zurich. He has a long lasting experience in M&A, venture Capital, eCommerce and business development.
1999 - 2003 Consultant for M&A Projekte at ScaleTools AG
2003 - 2005 Consultant for european M&A projects at Alliance Boots
Since 2005 : Founder and Managing Director APMC GmbH
2007-2011: Chief Operating Officer at Payment Network AG. Under his management SOFORT.com has grown to one of the most important e-payment methods in Germany with over 15.000 e-commerce partners and over 1bn Euro transactions volume per year.
Andrea speaks fluently German, English, Italian, French and Portuguese.
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Dieter Kartmann, Head of Business Development
Dieter has studied theology in Marburg studiert and has a long lasting experience in sales and marketing of IT projects. He has been responsible for the business development at Simty GmbH.
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Daniel Aigner, Head of Development
Daniel studies computer sciences at the university of Marburg and is a highly experienced developer. One of his major projects has been the development of the Simty iPhone App.
