Ulrich Machold

Co-founded and lead IDEAS, Axel Springer's strategic product incubator (until 12/14). We did systematic innovation work and built digital products and businesses in the media space and build more than a dozen products and start-ups. 'On loan' to various Axel Springer properties afterwards.

Managing upday's product organisation, strategy, roadmap and implementation, with a focus on engagement and personalisation of both features and content, leading a team of 5 POs plus UX, analytics and, by proxy, approx. 25 engineers, scaling traffic to >30m MAUs. Also managing upday's editorial operations, strategy, formats and best-practice sharing, leading a team of approx. 50 across office locations in 8 countries. Reporting to the CEO.

Managing upday's product organisation, strategy, roadmap and implementation, with a focus on engagement and personalisation of both features and content, leading a team of 5 POs plus UX, analytics and, by proxy, approx. 25 engineers, scaling traffic to >30m MAUs. Also managing upday's editorial operations, strategy, formats and best-practice sharing, leading a team of approx. 50 across office locations in 8 countries. Reporting to the CPO.

Joined Samsung's exclusive upday media aggregator to manage its international growth into the UK, France and 14 other countries, handling the whole enchilada (concept and product localization, recruiting, setting up operations and interim country management).

Acting as Concept and Product Lead for BI Deutschland, setting up product, editorial concept, team and all other relevant aspects of Business Insider's German operations from scratch to launch in Nov 2015, based on data-driven social media beta to identify setup for launch; product, concept, recruiting, liaising with US tech team and setting up operations; scaled to >3m visits in 3 months

Entrepreneurship/Venture Capital

The Berlin universities' tri-lingual study programme in European Studies, with a specialisation in European economics.