Thorsten Hackspiel is Founder and Managing Partner of MONTIS Corporate Finance GmbH, founded in 2018 and located close to Aschaffenburg, Germany. He has been active in the M&A advisory business since 2002 and advised on more than 35 successfully closed buy-side, sell-side and financing transactions. The focus has been on the technology sector as well as consumer & retail.

Here you will find a selection of transactions that Thorsten has accompanied in his previous professional career.

Following an apprenticeship as an industrial manager, Thorsten studied at the Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences and at Wilhelms University in Münster. Thereafter, he worked for Concord Corporate Finance, Frankfurt, Zurich Financial, Sydney and Walter Fries Corporate Finance, Aschaffenburg, in the Investment Banking/ M&A divisions.

In addition, Thorsten is a lecturer for Mergers & Acquisitions and Company Valuation at the Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences.

Birger Nahs is Founder and Managing Partner of MONTIS Corporate Finance GmbH, founded in 2018 and located in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He has been active in the M&A advisory business since 2001 and was involved in more than 40 successfully completed sell-side, buy-side and financing transactions. His focus has been on the technology sector. In the course of his career, Birger has acted for companies from Europe, the USA and Asia and thus advised on numerous international transactions.

Here you will find a selection of transactions Birger was involved in during his previous professional career.

Following his studies at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and James Madison University, Virginia, USA, he joined Corporate Finance Partners - an M&A advisory firm focused on technology transactions - in 2001. Prior to founding MONTIS, Birger worked for Acxit Capital Management.

Klaus Wagner is Founder and Managing Partner of MONTIS Corporate Finance GmbH, founded in 2018 and located in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He has been active in the M&A advisory business since 2001 and was involved in more than 40 successfully closed transactions with a volume between EUR 5 million and EUR 500 million. This includes financing, buy-side and sell-side transactions - mostly cross-border. He gained professional experience during his 17 years with Corporate Finance Partners, an M&A advisory firm specializing in technology transactions, and Acxit Capital Management.

Here you will find a selection of transactions Klaus was involved in during his previous professional career.

Klaus studied Business Administration at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from James Madison University, Virginia, USA.

Christian Eckhardt studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg, where he obtained a Master of Business Administration & Law degree.

During his studies Christian completed several internships, among others at Walter Fries Corporate Finance. From 2012 - 2018 Christian worked for Walter Fries Corporate Finance, where he was involved in more than 20 M&A transactions. His focus was on consumer & retail transactions as well as the technology sector.

From 2016 to 2018, Firat Köker worked for the corporate finance consulting firm Acxit Capital Management, primarily in the cyber security, E-Commerce, E-Sports, fintech, marketing and education industries. He worked on projects with a transaction volume between EUR 5 million and EUR 200 million and advised on financing, buy-side and sell-side transactions - mostly cross-border.

He gained his first experience in Mergers & Acquisitions at the Swiss consulting firm Chinese Business Center in Shanghai. Subsequently, he went to Berlin to get to know the start-up scene.

Firat studied International Business and Management at Saxion University in Enschede and at Shanghai University. He then obtained a Master of Laws degree with a focus on Mergers & Acquisitions at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Fabian Krug is working as an Analyst for MONTIS Corporate Finance since 2018. He studied economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and at San Diego State University, USA. He holds a Master of Science degree in Finance, Auditing, Controlling and Taxation.

During his studies, Fabian completed several internships, besides others at Walter Fries Corporate Finance and in Business Development at Daimler AG, Bangkok, Thailand, where he gained valuable M&A experience.

Timo Abid is CEO and shareholder of detailM, a leading agency group active in performance marketing. Timo is also CEO of SEO agency seo2b.

As a trained IT specialist, Timo co-founded the agency seo2b at the age of 20 and, as CEO, accompanied the development into a leading and internationally active SEO/ content seeding agency.

Timo gained M&A experience in the context of seo2b’s merger with belboon, subsequently becoming detailM group. Timo is a proven expert in the E-Commerce and online marketing segments. He regularly publishes expert articles in industry media, is a speaker at expert conferences and well networked in the industry.

Marco Beicht is Founder and Managing Director of powercloud GmbH, the German market leader in the field of cloud-based application software for core energy management processes and regulated IT processes for utilities.

He was previously founder and CEO of IntelliShop AG, a provider of enterprise E-Commerce solutions focusing on B2B and telecommunications. Marco holds investments in several start-ups, both in the IT- and online sector as well as in the offline world, and is an active member in supervisory boards.

Frederik Fleck is a serial entrepreneur and active investor/ Business Angel with more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. In recent years, he has founded companies such as crowdguru, test.io and expertcloud and established an investment portfolio with more than 30 companies.

Following the successful sale of his UK-based company Ostrich Media, Frederik founded Richmond View Ventures (RVV) in 2007 to invest in start-ups while remaining an active entrepreneur. Offices in San Francisco and Berlin allow RVV to participate in the most innovative developments in the technology industry.

Frederik's current passion comprises software/ SaaS, crowd sourcing and mobile projects.

Maximilian Jaber is Founder and former CEO of Comcave AG, a leading education company. In 2014, he sold a majority stake in Comcave to Dutch financial investor Gilde Buy Out Partners.

As a Graduate Engineer and Master of Engineering in Computer Sciences, Maximilian was involved in various IT companies in Germany and abroad, including GAPA GmbH, Terra Tech Computer Systems, eTejara (Bahrain) and CGACE (Saudi Arabia). Maximilian has an excellent international network with a wide variety of political and social commitments.

Andreas Kraus is one of the leading performance marketing experts. The trained Computer Scientist is the Founder of a top 20 digital marketing agency, has already completed an exit with an E-Commerce company and via Sunlab Holding is invested in several successful companies in the technology, education and E-Commerce segment.

Andreas has been working in the digital marketing industry since 1998 and maintains close contacts to well-known companies such as Facebook and Google. He regularly attends relevant conferences and speaks publicly about the development of digital marketing three to four times a year. The combination of technology and marketing enables him to make well-founded and competent assessments of companies and business models.