Team

Bernd Hardes

Bernd Hardes

is a co-founder and CEO of ECONA. Since his graduation in business administration in 1996, he has been a serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of many successful companies like energy broker Ampere AG or software development company aperto AG. As a co-founder of the first public VC company in Germany, bmp AG, he has gathered experience in early stage investing since 1997. At ECONA he focuses on marketing, strategy and transaction management.
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Thomas Jahn

Thomas Jahn

is a partner of ECONA and is in charge of the development of all digital products. Thomas Jahn is also managing director of all websites operated by ECONA, such as winload.de, funload.de, loadblog.de and gewinnspiele.com . Prior to his current position he was investment manager at ECONA since 2004. Thomas Jahn holds a diploma in business administration with majors in financing and marketing.
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Daniel Engelbarts

Daniel Engelbarts

is managing founder of sparwelt GmbH and as a partner at ECONA is responsible for the development of new ecommerce business models. Prior to joining us he was head of e-commerce at Bild.T-Online, a former joint venture of the German publishing house Axel Springer and T-Online, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, Europe´s biggest telecommunication company. Daniel Engelbarts studied “business informatics” at University of Applied Sciences in Wedel, Germany.
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