Advance Conference – International Web and StartUp Conference in Cologne - September 19 & 20, 2011, Cologne (Germany)

Olaf has over 18 years of experience as a manager, entrepreneur and business angel. He joined Target Partners as a venture partner in 2007 and became a partner in 2009. In the past Olaf Jacobi has invested as a business angel in young IT and Internet companies. He also founded Collax Inc. (Boston and Munich) in 2005, a Linux server solutions vendor, and served as CEO of the company until the end of 2006. Prior to that, Olaf was an investor and Chief Sales Officer of Cobion AG, an IT security solutions provider which was successfully sold to ISS Internet Security Systems Inc. (Atlanta) in 2004. From 1999 to 2002 Olaf was a management board member at ACG AG, a company publicly quoted on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Since 1994 Olaf served in various management positions in the IT sector, including as Senior VP for Marketing and a management board member of Minolta GmbH.