portagon

portagon, a fast-growing, VC-funded B2B fintech, transforms private markets and alternative investments with its leading SaaS platform. By streamlining digital onboarding, order management, and product governance, portagon enhances efficiency and connects wealth managers, banks, and financial advisors. Its innovative approach makes private markets more accessible and reliable.

• Strategic Finance Leadership: Oversee all financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial strategy, aligning them with the company’s growth objectives. Act as the key financial advisor to the CEO, board, and investors, ensuring robust financial health and governance.
• Operational Excellence: Lead Investor Relations, Finance, and People & Culture to build a scalable and efficient operational framework, positioning the company for sustained growth.
• Key Achievements:
- Directed strategic financial planning, enabling the company to achieve increased profitability, runway extension and fundraising successes.
- Partnered with the CEO to secure funding, contributed to successful capital raises. 
- Implemented a KPI-driven financial management system, improving financial transparency and decision-making for all stakeholders.
- Optimized cash flow management and financial controls, reducing operational costs significantly.

Vice President Operations

- Enable scalable growth through strategic and operational excellence and ensure that portagon is perceived as best place to work to attract, develop and retain top talent.
- Ensure exceptional people experience by steadily developing the portagon employer brand.
- Craft an OKR-centric target operating model to develop strategy, scalable execution, and connect individuals to personal, team, and firm goals to boost top-to-bottom accountability.
- Establish, analyse and optimise internal processes for efficient and highly scalable growth.

Head Of Operations

• Focus: Work directly with the founders and support in high priority topics like fundraising or business development
- Explore market potentials and identify new business development opportunities
- Prepare strategic documents, presentations, handovers, and pitch decks for investor meetings
- Set up, analyze and optimize internal processes and tools to support the growth
- Support on building up a KPI/data driven management system to compile regular and ad-hoc reports
- In pursuit of growth opportunities, drive the Go-To-Market strategy and gain traction in the market by identifying and actively reaching out to potential strategic partners

Head of Strategy & Venture Management / Founder's Right-hand

Led the development and implementation of the partner and lead generation strategy at, resulting in increased partnerships and revenue growth.

• Established and managed the partner management division, ensuring effective collaboration and communication with partners.
• Represented the company at events, enhancing brand visibility and fostering relationships with key stakeholders.

Partner & Lead Generation Manager

Founder Institute

The Founder Institute - based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 6 continents - is the #1 place in the world to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. FI helps to get traction and funding with a support network of startup experts that are invested in success, and a structured business-building process that has helped alumni raise over USD 1.5 billion.
 
• Role: Associate
• Focus: Help founders to raise funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur.

Associate

zeb consulting

zeb consulting is one of Europe's top strategy and management consultancies in the financial services sector and employs approx. 1,000 experts.
• Role: Management Consultant
• Focus: Strategy & management consulting along the entire value chain for national banks, private banks, savings banks, cooperative banks and insurance companies.

Consultant

KFW is one of the world’s leading promotional banks, renowned for its commitment to sustainable development. As Germany’s largest national development bank, it manages assets exceeding EUR 500 billion. With nearly 8,000 employees, KFW plays a pivotal role in driving economic growth and supporting innovation both domestically and internationally.

• Role: 60% part-time trainee (in parallel to bachelor's studies, 100% during semester breaks)
• Focus: department rotation every 3-6 months as part of program, including the following
- Digitalisation Project "Gründerplattform" (cofounded with BMWi and BusinessPilot)
- Executive Board's Office (CFO, CRO, and CIO)
- Financial Modelling & Advisory (9-10 figure loans, IPEX-Bank subsidiary)
- International Project and Export Finance - Metals and Mining (IPEX-Bank subsidiary)
- Loan Business - Residential Economy 
- Risk Management & Controlling
- Accounting

Student Trainee

Frankfurt School Student Consulting GmbH

Frankfurt School Student Consulting is the first student consultancy of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the university.
• Role: Project Leader
• Focus: Management consulting for Banks, Consultancies, SMEs, Startups, and DAX30 companies
- Supported to set up a student business consultancy with ~50 student consultants
- Helped acquiring new projects and establishing partnerships
- Managed several revenue generating projects

Project Leader

Commerzbank AG

In my role, I actively contributed to the realignment of the branch by assisting in business case adjustments, project coordination, and tool development. 

• Supported major realignment activities affecting all Front Office and Back Office units.
• Developed and implemented business models and simulations to optimize decision-making processes.
• Coordinated various project work streams to ensure efficient project execution.

Capital Markets - COO Department Intern

Head of Operations | We're hiring! 🚀

As Vice President Operations at portagon, I play a pivotal role in shaping the future of private markets and alternative investments. I lead operations across Investor Relations, Finance, and People & Culture, working closely with the CEO to drive strategic growth and operational excellence. My mission is to transform private markets into accessible and reliable investment ecosystems through innovative SaaS solutions and a scalable, regulatory-compliant infrastructure.

With a background in management consulting and banking, I bring expertise in financial strategy, fundraising, and operational leadership. I’ve successfully contributed to capital raises, implemented scalable operational frameworks, and optimized financial performance. I hold a Master’s degree in Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and have a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.

I’m passionate about combining strategy, finance, and technology to drive impactful growth and innovation. If you’d like to connect or collaborate, feel free to reach out—I’m always eager to explore new opportunities and perspectives.

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