An operator, NED, venture partner, advisor and angel investor, Georg supports the team on dealflow, and advises our portfolio founders in areas such as growth, talent, company culture, and enterprise sales.
With a background in team and company-building at a range of fast-growth technology businesses, Georg was General Manager EMEA at Yammer. After a stint as VP & General Manager EMEA at Fuzebox, he went on to become Director Western Europe for Tesla, where he ran a team of over 330 people across 38 locations. He then became CEO at Smoothwall, which was acquired by Family Zone (ASX: FZO). He’s currently CEO at Phrase, a SaaS localisation and translation management company.
A graduate of the University of Cambridge in Social and Political Science with Management Studies, Georg’s career began in the M&A ‘war room’ at Merrill Lynch and as Microsoft’s first quota-carrying salesperson for enterprise cloud in Europe, with Microsoft Online Services. In 2004-05, he fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition to sail around the world, by becoming a crew member in the Global Challenge, the World’s Toughest Yacht Race.
Georg is an advisory board member at EQL:Her, which tackles underrepresentation of women in technology, and a venture partner at Craft Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm specialising in B2B SaaS and marketplaces.