Daniel Nathrath

CEO

Daniel Nathrath is a Co-Managing Director of SMART. His prior professional experience includes roles as Managing Director Germany & Business Development Europe at viagogo, the leading European ticket marketplace, as well as a role as Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Previously, he worked as General Counsel and Business Development Director at a Bertelsmann subsidiary, Lycos Europe. Mr. Nathrath holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago as well as a Master of Laws degree from the University of Houston.

Andreas Etten

Co-CEO

Born in Hamburg, Andreas has more than 16 years experience in the Internet world. Prior to his Internet history, Andreas startet his career in 1989 with Arthur Andersen in Milan while competing his degree in business administration with honors at the University of Hamburg in the same year. Being a true entrepreneur, he quickly moved on and in 1990 founded his first company in Monaco where he successfully developed the business of fashion trading from Italy to Eastern Europe and Asia. Following this, he hounded and successfully built several companies such as Market Makers / iTrade which developed a software platform for web-based marketplaces. Afterwards Andreas went to join the Scout24-Group where he was also the sole CEO of FriendScout24. 2005 he became COO of be2.com.

Dr. Martin Christian Hirsch

Member of the Management Board and responsible for Product Design and Research Activities

Born in Munich, Martin studied human biology at the Universities of Bonn and Marburg and has a PhD in Brain Science. As an entrepreneur he founded five companies dealing with different aspects of the processing and visualization of knowledge. He is author and editor of different scientific books and software products. He is member of the Human Science Center of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich (since 2000), and Member of the Core Team of the Parmenides Foundation for the Study of Thinking (since 2010).