Konstantin Richter

Konstantin Richter

Mr. Konstantin Richter has been a Director of Tamedia Ag., since 2004. Mr. Richter began his professional career in 1997 as an assistant editor at the media-trade magazine Columbia Journalism Review in New York. In 1998, he worked as an assistant editor at the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He joined The Wall Street Journal as a Staff Reporter in Brussels in 1999 and left two years later to write a novel entitled “Bettermann” that was published by Kein & Aber in Zurich in 2007. From 2004 to 2005, he served as Co-Managing Director of the Rogner & Bernhard publishing company. Mr. Richter holds BA in English literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and Master from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

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Konstantin Richter is a contributing writer for POLITICO. He also writes regularly for the German newspaper Die Welt. He is the author of two books, “Bettermann” (2007) and “Kafka was young and needed the money” (2011). He holds a masters’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He currently lives in Berlin.

Highly creative and inspirational business leader. Fund-Raiser. CEO Trainer. Recognized for building and scaling business strategies around value enhancing narratives. Excited to help companies building data solutions around decentralization, identity and one-workflow-universes. Expertise in blockchain, genomics, rich-media and IoT.

Konstantin is an expert in advising technology companies in remnant asset monetization, in unearthing new means to conceptualize life-time-value and unit costs and in the creation of marketplaces. He helps disruptive businesses structure their valuation narrative, and ensures start-ups are aligned with the right strategic partners -- for growth, support and exit. Assignments to date have been in the mobile, saas and entertainment markets, with the most notable successes being Lookbooks.com (exit q1 2014; double digit rev multiple), Audiotube (exit 2011), Genymobile (A-round, 2015), DNAstack (Seed, Internet of Genomics). Current engagements are with wiredrive.com (rich-media), monetization lead at gem (blockchain), madhive (programmatic OTT/identity) and others.

Prior to building out his Advisory business, Konstantin was Global Director for Software and Services at NOKIA, where he negotiated global software framework deals to combat its latent device proliferation. He began his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he honed his analytical skills as a strategic change consultant. He joined Deutsche Telekom AG in the late nineties, first as assistant director to the executive board office, then as a Manager within T-Mobile’s International data business. He was promoted to senior Manager, and oversaw the growth of T-Mobile’s music business from zero to $25m +.

Konstantin graduated within the top 10% of his class at European Business School, with terms in Germany, France and the UK. He is fluent in 4 languages.