Benjamin Jost – CEO & Founder
Ben heads the engineering team and manages all tech projects. Further he is responsible for PR and Marketing. Prior to founding TrustYou Ben held senior positions at Venture Capital firms and in corporate M&A departments. Ben studied in Munich, Seattle and Paris and holds a M.Sc. in Electrical and Communication Engineering.
Tops: With lots of VC experience, grew TrustYou from start-up to being known all over the world
Flops: Might not find the time to actually travel if he keeps working this hard
Jakob Riegger – COO & Founder
Jakob runs TrustYou’s sales team and looks after finance and operations. After having sold his previous company to Autonomy Systems, Jakob headed its global professional services organization with +100 people plus managing the sales team in German speaking countries. In the past he has founded several technology companies with 2 successful exits. Jakob studied in Munich and Vancouver and holds a Master in Economics from Munich University.
Tops: Really knows his stuff after having founded several search companies
Flops: Might be addicted to creating start-ups!
Adrian Achihăei – Chief Architect
Adrian is our Chief Architect and the mastermind behind TrustYou’s Semantic Application Layer Technology (SALT). He is an expert in distributed systems architecture and complex search. Before TrustYou, Adrian helped building the technology foundation of an online payment and banking house. Adrian holds an engineering degree from Technical University of Iași (Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering).
Tops: Functions + functions
Flops: Wasting time with the art of wasting space …
Kristof Roemer – VP Sales
Executive positions in sales, marketing and distribution mainly in the hospitality and communications industries.
Tops: Convinces people, likes the challenge, will be seeking for the best solution
Flops: Win-win deals are okay, but I should always win
Dean Schmit – SVP of Business Development
Sr. VP of Business Development. With more than 15-years’ experience in the Hospitality Industry, Dean has worked with both brand and Independent hotels in fields of Revenue Management, Electronic Distribution, and Social Media Management.
Tops: Consultative sales approach with focus on client needs. Excellent speaking / presentation skills.
Flops: Really hates wearing a tie, does not read or speak German.
Michael Menzel – Director Sales DMOs
Director positions in market leading media houses, focus on mapping, publishing, tourism, mobile, automotive.
Tops: Always on the search for the memex – TrustYou is bringing it closer
Flops: Favorite soccer club Eintracht Braunschweig in the 2nd bundesliga
Alin Sanislav
Senior Software Developer.
Tops: Better at bug-hunting than a professional exterminator
Flops: Will be out of a job once he has perfected TrustYou’s products
Brian Houser
Software Developer and Aspiring Genius.
Tops: Takes on every software challenge
Flops: … whether or not it can be reasonably solved or is even theoretically possible.
Claudia Ebner
Computational Linguistics Expert and Project Manager. Specialist in German literature and language, computational linguistics expert, art historian.
Tops: Loves dealing with language – either in theory or in practice
Flops: Analyzes even the customer communication from a linguistic point of view
Dina Spiegel
Area Director, Benelux & Israel. Many years experience in sales and marketing at the top end of the international hotel industry including recruitment.
Tops: A large, international network, likes to convince, consult and advise
Flops: Speaks so many languages she sometimes talks to you in Klingon
Elisabeth Neulinger
Head of Customer Service & Team Assistant. Leads and supports TrustYou’s helpful Service Team and also coordinates the company’s event and travel planning.
Tops: Does multitasking every day and wants to make everybody happy.
Flops: Needs chocolate to keep her running.
Elke Puerzer
Semantic Development Team. Computational linguistics expert, freelance translator for French, Portuguese and English and event management experience.
Tops: Specialized in sentiment analysis
Flops: Interpreting the world through a graphs filter
Jacek Mech
Software Professional. Expert in big scale and distributed software systems processing large amounts of unstructured data.
Tops: More than 20 years in software development
Flops: … and still looking for the way to do it right
Jordi Franquesa
Sales Manager Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
Tops: Reaching targets I previously set up, in love to be representing a top international company
Flops: Non-stop working hours
Justin Käser
Computer scientist and software developer. Developing computational linguist.
Tops: Can do Java even without a can of coffee. In the process of improving data processing. Looking to know of knowledge.
Flops: Does not know when he knows enough.
Kim Patel
Marketing and customer service coordinator. With an interest in social media, advertising and current events.
Tops: Has a bigger stamp collection than most.
Flops: A wanderlust that can’t be satisfied.
Larisa Huremovic
Director of Sales Central Europe. Wants every costumer to benefit 100% from TrustYou products.
Tops: Experience with communication of many kinds and high working capacity.
Flops: Incurable shoe shopper.
Markus Reil
Senior Software Developer.
Tops: Creates APIs that let partners profit from TrustYou’s semantic processing power
Flops: Still undecided if he prefers XML or JSON
Rajat Malhotra
Head of Sales, Asia region. Rajat is a hospitality professional with a Masters in International Hospitality Management from the University of Strathclyde (UK). His multi-pronged approach to a myriad of issues in the field assures that a solution is always at hand. As head of Sales, Asia region, he is able to use his skills gained from working in the UK, Dubai, Jordan and all over India to provide a broad spectrum of service solutions to clients.
Tops: Believes TrustYou is the best thing to happen to the Hospitality world in quite a while, wants to take TrustYou to EVERY Hotel/OTA in Asia.
Flops: Lets just say he isn’t a ‘morning person’.
Sebastian Grundner-Culemann
Director of Sales, Germany/Austria/Switzerland. Specializes in Key Account Management and Business Development.
Tops: Knows both worlds (Hotel- and Internet Business) first hand.
Flops: Can’t say no to sweets – and there are free sweets in the office!
Sonia Fabre
Senior Software Developer.
Tops: Her work on TrustYou’s widgets enables anyone to profit from our semantic technology
Flops: By finding great hotels, might help even more German tourists to flood into her home country Spain
Steffen Wenz
At the frontier of computer science and technology management. Charged with the non-trivial task of taking a look at TrustYou’s semantic technology with completely fresh eyes.
Tops: Turned out to be pretty good at PowerPoint, so now does all of TrustYou’s presentations
Flops: See Tops!
Thomas Mayer
System Administrator.
Tops: Can get any computer running somehow
Flops: Has to see Murphy’s Law confirmed again and again
Yvonne Pajonkowski
Sales.
Tops: Advertisement, technologies, services… can sell anything, as long as she’s convinced of it
Flops: Has very high expectations of TrustYou’s products!