Werner Zahnt

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1050 Vienna
Austria

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Personal information

Wants

Interesting investment opportunities in mobile / internet companies .......... People who wnat to work for startups (sales, marketing, pr, online media, engineering, finance, SEO/SEM, ...) .......... Potential partnerships between EU and Silicon Valley .......... Networking
Haves

Comprehensive knowledge and multi year experience in executive and operative roles in mobile and internet business .......... product management, engineering, finance, consulting and environmental economics, strong analytical skills .......... Managerial and investment experience at different stages of the corporate life cycle (foundation, fundraising, buying & selling, mergers, restructuring) .......... Investment opportunities in mobile and e-commerce, search engine marketing (SEM) and recommender start-ups ............ Job Opportunites ............ Praktikum, Trainee ............ Investment Fund, Cash
Interests

Literature, Music, Orienteering, Internet, Mobile and Green Startups, United States
Groups

Professional experience (13 years, 10 months)

Jul 2011 - present
(8 months)

Partner

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Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
Mar 2009 - present
(3 years)

Partner

The Merger GmbH, http://www.themerger.com

Industry: Consulting
Feb 2009 - present
(3 years, 1 month)

Freelancer

Werner Zahnt

Industry: Consulting, Telecommunication, Information Technology & Services, Financial Services,
Mar 2006 - Jan 2009
(2 years, 11 months)

Director

VeriSign Inc., http://www.verisign.com

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Software development, Telecommunications, mobile marketing, crm, SMS/ MMS, Premium Services, Messaging, Mobile Alerts, Mobile Vouchering, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Ticketing, Mobile Content, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Content Management, Content Delivery, Mobile Music, DRM, J2ME Development
Jun 2004 - Feb 2006
(1 year, 9 months)

Business Unit Manager

3united mobile solutions ag, http://www.3united.com

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Internet, Telecommunication, software development
May 1998 - Jun 2004
(6 years, 2 months)

COO

Sysis AG, http://www.sysis.at

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Software Development, Internet, Telecommunication,
Sep 2000 - May 2003
(2 years, 9 months)

CEO

sysis d.o.o.

Industry: Information Technology & Services, Telecommunication, Internet

Employment status

Freelancer

Educational background

University of Economics and Business Administration
Business Administration

Information Services, Management and Organizational Behaviour, Environmental Economics, Mathematics, Taxation

Languages

German (First language), English (Fluent), French (Good knowledge)

About me

Before Speed Invest and TheMerger Werner Zahnt, has been leading the mobile content business within VeriSign. He has more than 15 years of experience in the internet and the mobile content, application and messaging business.

After the acquisition of 3united and m-qube Werner has been put in charge of the global storefront business and managing the integration and consolidation efforts of the 3united, m-qube and VeriSign DCMS mobile content distribution products. For this effort he moved to the VeriSign headquarter in Mountain View, CA.

Werner brings along deep product knowledge paired with engineering know how and thorough financial expertise. He gained broad functional and process experience working in many different operational and executive roles.

During his studies of business administration and informatics at the University of Business Administration and Economics in Vienna Werner co-founded and was COO of sysis plc which merged with 2 other Austrian companies to become 3united. During his time at sysis he was also CEO of Sysis d.o.o., a Croatian software engineering subsidiary in Zagreb.

In 1999, Werner founded FUNDAQ, a subsidiary of sysis that pioneered the field of online social trading markets, and sold it after a year to Blue-C AG.

Within sysis and 3united Werner has managed to build up from scratch the a global mobile content distribution platform (CPS) and the global relationship to Ericsson and Napster, which led to one of the world wide most comprehensive global rollouts of mobile content services with more than 25 deployments in 3 continents.

Contacts

Amelie Clement, Thomas Mitterer, Alexander Marktl, Stephan Hamberger

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