chameleon GmbH is my personal investment vehicle. As a business angel, I invest in companies where technology, data and entrepreneurial energy come together — and support them with what I have learned over more than 25 years as a managing director and board member.
I invest where I can contribute not only capital but also operational experience. Two paths are at the centre of this.
Investing in young teams at a very early stage. What counts here is the idea, the execution strength of the founders and a market with real potential. I stay closely involved — without taking over.
Investing in more established, private-equity-backed companies — usually combined with an advisory board or supervisory board mandate, in which I contribute strategically and as an equal partner to the investor.
I currently hold 13 investments — from young start-ups to established mid-sized companies. A selection that shows the range: early ideas, grown businesses and one successfully supported exit.
This is a selection. I am happy to present further holdings on request and in a personal conversation.
My advisory work is carried out exclusively through selected advisory and supervisory board mandates. No classic consulting business, no broad acquisition.
“Few mandates, but with genuine commitment — because my time is the real investment.”
I only take on a mandate when I can contribute substantively and the collaboration rests on a shared entrepreneurial outlook.
For more than 25 years I have worked at the intersection of industry, technology and digitalisation. Roles as CEO of the Eucon Group for almost ten years, as a board member of VHV digital services AG and as CEO at VYDA taught me how a good idea becomes a viable, data-driven business model — and how to lead companies through growth, changes of ownership and transformation.
At Eucon I oversaw the carve-out and sale of the automotive business to Infopro Digital and worked for years with private-equity and insurance owners. This experience is the source of what I bring as a business angel today: operational understanding rather than theory.
My career began in the automotive supplier industry — at Continental, Valeo and for over fourteen years at HELLA, most recently as a member of divisional management. Early on I took on international supervisory and advisory board mandates in Germany, Denmark, Poland and France. Today I am CEO of Diamant Software GmbH and invest in parallel through chameleon GmbH — selectively, with my own capital and out of conviction.
Motorsport is not only my hobby — it is the mindset with which I also invest: precision, preparation, and the courage to accelerate at the right moment.
Through Bilster Berg I hold a stake in one of Europe's most demanding race tracks. And when a race car in chameleon livery hits the circuit, it is a lived connection between profession, investment and enthusiasm.
Race number 156 — the chameleon race car also carries the signature of several portfolio companies: cardentity, Carmerce, Replique and Autosource Group.
Whether an early-stage idea or an established company looking for an experienced sparring partner on its board — feel free to write to me. I reply personally.