Team

David was born in Germany. He started programming at the early age of 12 and set up his first Internet business four years later, in 1996. He developed the women’s platform www.gyn.de. Five years later, www.gyn.de was the largest and most popular women’s community in Germany.

After he finished his studies in Business Management (economics and IT) in Stuttgart, he developed the prototype “NEHARDOS”, an asset management software, in the programming language JAVA for a hedge fund in Stuttgart, for the support of hedge fund dealers. Today, this software has been outsourced to a separate company (Cinovo AG) and currently keeps 15 software developers employed who keep advancing this software.

In 2006, he founded a web development company in Switzerland, which he used to launch further Internet projects of his own.

With his excellent Czech language skills and Internet know-how, he became partner of the Centralway Group in 2008. Centralway is an Internet investor specialising in the core markets of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since 2008, David has significantly contributed to the establishment of the Centralway portfolio. At the beginning of 2009 he was appointed CEO of Centralway Holding AG.

After almost 3 years, end of 2010, he left Centralway and intends now to focus on BlackLex in Internet companies, to utilise his experience as developer (for more than 17 years), general manager, portfolio manager and investor.

David speaks German, English and Czech / Slovak.

The native of Szczecin (Poland) is Co-founder and, as the CTO, responsible for marketing and product development with BlackLex. In addition to that, he supports the portfolio businesses in the area of social media and gives them advice with regard to new web technologies and user-interface design.

Before BlackLex, Przemyslaw used to develop optical vision systems for a company in Stuttgart. After the subsequent studies of business informatics, he decided to become independent and to work for himself. With his company for web development and web design, he successfully implemented numerous projects for renowned clients in Germany and Switzerland.

In 2009, he became CIO and partner of Centralway. As CIO, he was responsible for the entire online presence, online marketing and the IT infrastructure of Centralway. The key element of his activities, however, was the project management for a future-orientated platform for the funding and exit of Internet companies.

After the successful completion of this project and after his official resignation from Centralway, Przemyslaw decided to join David in founding BlackLex, and to lead this business to success.

Przemyslaw speaks German, English and Polish.

Christoph began his professional career after he graduated his studies in business economics, specialising in the banking sector with the bank Baden-Württembergische Bank AG in Stuttgart. There he was responsible for the development and establishment of the bank‘s proprietary trading in precious metals and raw materials.

In addition to proprietary trading, he oversaw the development and emission of commodity derivates. After 4 years with this private bank in Southern Germany, he moved to Frankfurt to join DresdnerKleinwortWasserstein (DrKW), the investment banking branch of the bank Dresdner Bank AG, to support their raw materials team. For the DrKW, Christoph was globally active in the precious metal and raw material business. Transactions in mine hedging, with hedge funds and raw material investors have enriched his already well established expertise.

End of June 2005, he founded the company Tiberius Asset Management AG together with a partner, where he is in charge of raw material trading. Tiberius oversees more than 1.5 billion $ provided by institutional investors.

The Swiss Chilean is an entrepreneur and pioneer of VoIP technology. He founded his company Citovox in Switzerland in 2000. Citovox provides unified communication solutions for SMB’s.

His unmatched experience with telecommunications and mobile software development associated with his company allows him to build the highest quality mobile software with innovative features.

Rafael has holdings with Citovox in mobile and voip technology companies in europe and south america.

Christof Wittig is Managing Director of Kii Capital, L.P. and member of the executive team at Kii Corporation of Japan. He brings more than 17 years of experience in starting and running software companies to Kii. At Kii Capital, he is investing into early stage mobile applications, running on smartphones like Android OS handsets and the iPhone.

During his career, Christof founded and successfully exited 3 software companies. Most recently he was the founder and CEO of Servo Software, Inc. which merged with Synclore to form the Kii group in July 2010. Servo was one of the first startups worldwide to exclusively focus on Android smartphone technology, providing content discovery solutions to major operators & handset manufacturers.

Prior to Servo, Christof was founder and CEO at db4objects, Inc., which was sold to Versant Corp. in December 2008. Since fall 2004, db4objects developed, commercially licensed and supported db4o, the leading open source object database, to be included into a wide range of devices from Boeing aircraft to Ricoh photocopiers.

Prior to db4objects, Christof was founder and CEO at Apsis Software AG in Munich, Germany, a position he held from the founding of Apsis through its sale to Nemetschek AG in 1999 and its merger with conject AG in 2002. APSIS was the leading provider of cost management solutions to German real estate developers including Hewlett-Packard, Thyssen-Krupp, ECE and Hines.

Christof is a frequent speaker on mobile Internet and open source business models. He is an author of Stanford research on MySQL’s business model and on Google’s Android platform. Christof holds a Master of Science in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow in the Class of 2004. He also holds a Master of Engineering from Technical University Munich.