Corporate governance

Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Audit Committee

Christoph Schuh was born in 1964 in Cologne, Germany. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Cologne, Germany. Mr. Schuh started his career in 1991 as a corporate developer at Bertelsmann. He joined the Hubert Burda Media/Verlagsgruppe Milchstrasse as vice president in 1994. In 1999, Mr. Schuh co-founded Tomorrow Internet AG (later Tomorrow Focus AG), an internet portfolio company, and managed the IPO on the German Stock Market. As part of the management board, he was responsible for different portfolio companies in digital media, advertising and transaction businesses like HolidayCheck, ElitePartner and Jameda. In 2016, Mr. Schuh served as an advisor to BC Partners, GC Altium and Lakestar. In 2017, he became a partner at Lakestar L.P.; in 2020 also Managing Director for Lakestar Advisors Germany GmbH. Christoph Schuh is an active investor and advisor for travel businesses for more than 10 years:  He was responsible for investments in travel companies like GetYourGuide, Omio, HomeToGo, LimeHome, Impala and HolidayCheck. He also acted as an advisor for Amadeus IT Group.

Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Chairman of the Audit Committee

Dr. Dirk Altenbeck was born in 1965 in Essen, Germany. He studied Business Administration at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, where he graduated with a Masters in Business Administration in 1992 and a Ph.D in Business in 1994. During his doctoral studies, Dr. Altenbeck worked in the credit department of the Bayerische Vereinsbank Nuremberg and as a research associate in the department of Business Administration and Business Taxation at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, where he stayed until 1997. Dr. Altenbeck has been an independent tax consultant since 1997 and a tax consultant and the managing partner of PKF Issing Faulhaber Wozar Altenbeck GmbH & Co. KG (auditors, accountants and tax consultants) in Würzburg since 2001. Dr. Altenbeck’s consulting specialties are structuring large family-owned businesses, transaction consulting and international tax structuring. In addition, Dr. Altenbeck has been teaching “International Income Tax Law” at the Julius-Maximilians- University in Würzburg since 2003. Dirk Altenbeck has travel industry experience as chairman of the audit committee of the HolidayCheck Group AG since 2013.

Member of the Supervisory Board

Philipp Kloeckner was born in 1980 in Greifswald, Germany. He holds a Diplom-Kaufmann degree in Economics from the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University in Greifswald, Germany. Mr. Kloeckner started his career in 2005 at Idealo Internet GmbH as division manager Travel, Search Engine Optimization and Business Intelligence. From 2012 to 2014, he served as search strategy consultant at Wimdu GmbH before joining Treatwell (Wahanda) as search strategy advisor in 2015. In 2016, Mr. Kloeckner became the managing director of Trade Machines FI GmbH, where he remained until 2018. Mr. Kloeckner has served and currently serves as search strategy consultant and advisor for a vast variety of companies, including Foodpanda and Hellofood, Lamudi, Mädchenflohmarkt GmbH, Visual Meta GmbH, Home24, Lazada, iPrice, GetYourGuide and Rocket Internet SE. Since 2018, he serves as a marketing and due diligence advisor for KKR & Co. Inc and other top-tier private equity firms. He is also a mentor and angel investor for the Axel Springer Porsche APX Accelerator and the Plug and Play Hamburg Accelerator.

Member of the Supervisory Board

Martin Reiter was born in 1983 in Leoben, Austria. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Master’s degrees in Philosophy, Law and Finance from the Karl-Franzen-University in Graz, Austria. Mr. Reiter started his career in 2007 at McKinsey & Company as engagement manager. He joined Groupon in 2010 as Vice President International before moving to Airbnb.com as head of international operations in the same year. In 2011, Mr. Reiter founded Startsglobal, an international investment and consulting holding focused on High Growth/Tech companies; in 2016, he founded rare-produce.com, focused on high-quality sustainable food; and in 2017, he founded Reiter Heritage, focused on Real Estate, Wine and Yachting in France. He joined Wayfair in 2014 as Head of Europe, where he oversees Wayfair’s Europe Business across all functions, offices and warehouse.

Member of the Supervisory Board

Susanne (Greenfield) Sandler was born in 1984 in New York, USA. She graduated magna cum laude from New York University‘s Undergraduate Stern School of Business, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in both Finance and Accounting. Ms. Sandler started her career as an analyst with Merrill Lynch in 2006. She joined Corsair Capital, a private equity firm, as an Associate in 2008 and moved to the Griffon Corporation in 2010 to become Director of Corporate Development. Between 2014 and 2017, Ms. Sandler served as Director and then Vice President of Corporate Development at Booking Holdings, becoming Vice President of Global Strategy in 2017. In 2020, she joined IAC to assume the role of General Manager of Apalon, where she oversees all major functions of the 200+ person mobile app company.

Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Audit Committee

Thilo Semmelbauer was born in 1965 in Darmstadt, Germany. He holds a dual Master’s degree from MIT, in Management and Electrical Engineering, from the Leaders for Global Operations program, as well as a BA in Engineering and Computer Science from Dartmouth College, summa cum laude. At the start of his career in the early 1990s, Mr. Semmelbauer worked for an internal start-up at Motorola, where he launched Motorola’s first consumer wireless “communicator” (the Envoy), and then Motorola’s first cable modem for broadband internet access. In 1996, Mr. Semmelbauer joined The Boston Consulting Group, focusing on Consumer and Technology strategy, including projects in medical imaging, digital printing, and online retail. In 2000, Mr. Semmelbauer co-founded and was President & COO of WeightWatchers.com, which became the global leader in online weight loss and was acquired in 2005 by the licensor, Weight Watchers International. He then served as COO of the combined companies and as interim-CEO of Weight Watchers from 2016 to 2017. Mr. Semmelbauer was president and COO of Shutterstock from 2010 to 2015 and joined Insight Partners in 2019 where he is currently a managing director.