Curriculum Vitae
Professional Life

01/2004 - Today Villazzo LLC,
President.
  • Pioneer of "VillaHotels":
    Personalized mini-hotels in private rental villas
  • Complete Villa Management
  • Local offices and full hotel staff in:
    Miami - Aspen - Marbella - St Tropez
06/1999 - 01/2004 Retired.
Selected Private Investments.
 
04/1999 - 06/1999   Amazon.com Europe,
Business Development Europe
 
04/1998 - 04/1999   Amazon.com Germany (Amazon.de),
Managing Director
 
08/1995 - 04/1998   ABC Buecherdienst GmbH,
Managing Partner.
  • Online book retailing

(http://www.telebuch.de, Btx *TELEBUCH#)

Merged with Amazon.com in 04/1998.
 

01/1989 - 08/1995   ArtData Systems Software GmbH,
Managing Partner.
  • CD-ROM retrieval systems
  • Online databases
  • Self-service POS systems
  • Back-office systems with on-line order transmission
  • Complete software solution for the book retail market
10/1986 - 01/1989   Gleissner + Jagodzinski Software GdbR,
Managing Partner.
  • Software development for PC-based editing within the German Btx online system.
  • Complete IT solutions and integration
Education

05/1993 - 05/1996   MBA "cum laude"
("Diplom der Betriebswirtschaftslehre")
LMU, Munich, Germany.

Graduated after 3 years (with only part-time commitment, had to run my company) when the AVERAGE at the University was 6 years for full-time students.
 

05/1988 German Abitur (= College)
Albrecht-Altdorfer-Gymnasium, Regensburg, Germany

Average grade 1.0 (= straight A, best 1%).