Meet the growing MADANA team

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Apr 20, 2018 · 7 min read
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Some time ago we introduced the three MADANA co-founders Christian Junger, Dieter Schule and J.-Fabian Wenisch. In this article you get to know the whole core team, which recently moved to our new offices in Berlin. See who is realizing the vision of MADANA, and read why we are a great team that is capable of making MADANA successful.

Eugen Salkutzan — Community Manager

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With over five years of experience in the blockchain space, Eugen has accumulated great insight into the blockchain scene, its spirit and thinking. Since early 2013 he engaged in different crypto-communities and established one of the first major Bitcoin meetups in Germany and the Bitcoin student group of RWTH Aachen University. Together with Max Kordek and Christian Junger, CEO of MADANA, he started building the German blockchain community. He supported Max Kordek in the dawn of the Lisk project and was one of the first early supporters as well as an early beta-tester of the Lisk blockchain.

Eugen is a part of the MADANA team since day one and contributed by consolidating the vision as well as the business direction of our project. In his previous role as a business developer, he got in-depth knowledge about MADANA and introduced it to investors, at meetups and events. Thus he is an expert for various questions and can provide clarification on our decisions.

To give the growing MADANA community the support and dedication it deserves, he will focus on being our Community Manager from now on. Therefore Eugen will be the direct link between the community and the MADANA team, in order to make sure the voice of everybody who supports our project is heard and not left behind. He will dedicate most of his time to grow a healthy community, as it will be an important factor for building the MADANA ecosystem.

Julian Schiemann — Head of Marketing

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Without a doubt, marketing is one of the most important and most difficult tasks to build a successful startup company. It is all about reaching the right people and telling a cohesive and compelling story about what we do and why it is relevant to them.

Julian has a passion for blockchain technology, creative marketing techniques, and great attention to detail. He proved to be the perfect fit for MADANA, especially with his ability to view challenges from different standpoints, to prioritize important tasks and to execute with his wide range of practical skills.

He studied media informatics and communication sciences at RWTH Aachen University, combining two subjects needed for marketing in a tech startup. He got to know state-of-the-art technical concepts and possibilities, as well as gained a deep understanding of how to communicate to a specific audience. His last major university projects were about new and impactful ways of digital marketing and about Privacy Engineering in context of big data. Therefore he has the knowledge to truly understand and influence MADANAs vision and purposefully communicate it.

Moreover, Julian is a successful entrepreneur himself and established small businesses in creative and technical fields within the past six years. Therefore he is aware of the challenges a young business is facing and knows how to overcome them.

He gained relevant work experience not only at his own projects, but also at several companies in the tech industry. He started early with internships at marketing agencies in Hamburg and worked as an editorial producer at CHIP Online, the most visited online tech magazine in Germany. During his studies, he was a part-time freelancer, improving the online presence of small businesses, and later switched to online marketing consulting. Furthermore, he gained experience as a technical editor at SOPTIM AG for more than a year. You can see his impact already on our social media channels, since he officially joined the MADANA team in March 2018.

Right now he is busy defining target groups, enhancing our branding message, running social media channels and completely renewing our web presence. That also includes creating comprehensible and deliberate content as well as high-quality visuals. As our Head of Marketing, he will focus further on building our marketing strategy and leading the future marketing team. This is why we are currently looking for skilled content producers, social media managers, and graphic designers. Reach out if you know somebody.

Stefan Lockowandt — Strategy and Organization

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Stefan is a serious pillar for the management board regarding the rapidly growing tasks to be mastered in time for our expansion. His main task with the management is to continuously elaborate the strategic positioning, to support in the operational business and, as a generalist, help wherever important tasks have to be done.

In his studies on Industrial Engineering and management at RWTH Aachen University he boosted one of his core capabilities: his systemic and logical as well as process-oriented approach to problems, which he proved successfully in strategic market analysis at the management consultancy Q_PERIOR. He drives the field of strategy with his insights in business administration, as in corporate development and strategy, he acquired in his B.Sc. and in his M.Sc. studies.

Stefan developed an interdisciplinary skill set, which makes him a perfect fit at interfaces where the complexity of many different disciplines meet. He acquired experience in six companies at various business functional areas and sectors. Moreover, he obtained knowledge in various topics from business and economics, to technological insights in engineering, deep learning and machine learning. The latter he gained at the Technical University of Berlin.

Overall, Stefan is a reliable generalist and the right person to deal with MADANA’s strategic challenges. He reduces the overhead of the management board and ensures the operation of our business. The team is glad to have Stefan on board with his daily smile and positive attitude.

Nicolas Pettican — Head of Development

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The University of Manchester, a top UK university, has brought out multiple talents, one of which is Nicolas. Here he completed his Bachelor’s in Biotechnology with Enterprise and his Master’s in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. During the latter, he developed methods and software to analyze and understand biological data. As a student, in 2015, he co-founded the UoM Bioinformatics Society as Chair, offering workshops for fellow students that connected life sciences with computer science.

Later on, he went off to work as a Research Executive at HAVAS LYNX carrying out both quantitative and qualitative research and analysis to inform strategical decisions for global pharmaceutical clients. Nicolas brings a huge added value to our company with his previous experience as Head of Development at UNIQUE INSIGHTS where he lead the development of software for higher educational institutions, focusing on machine learning technologies and data analysis.

In his free time, he likes to volunteer and engage in technology meetups and events such as hackathons and even won a HAC100 Challenge in 2017. He contributed as Head of IT in the Manchester-based homeless charity SPIN, covering all IT and digital related necessities and operations. And even volunteered as a chef in their weekly soup kitchen.

As the leading figure within our development department, he will ensure the planning and execution of our core systems, pushing the development of MADANA and making it the best product possible. Having Nicolas on board is not only benefiting the development department but also the MADANA team as a whole, bringing in diversity and cultural exchange.

The MADANA team is growing (with you)

The team at MADANA is passionately working to make our vision come true. We want to raise online privacy awareness and build tools to be in control of your data, while enabling new business models and contributing to the greater good of society. It’s a huge task and we need help! If you think your skills are a perfect fit for the MADANA team, contact us. We are hiring!

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