Experience

goodcarbon

• Germany
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor Strategic Partnerships | Impact Investing

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  goodcarbon is a powerful impact startup which reinvents the way how natural based solutions are financed. With its trading platform and related financial instruments it empowers carbon entrepreneurs to develop and scale-up high-impact carbon projects such as the restoration of coastal mangrove forests, which regenerate biodiverse ecosystems and benefit local communities. goodcarbon is a powerful impact startup which reinvents the way how natural based solutions are financed. With its trading platform and related financial instruments it empowers carbon entrepreneurs to develop and scale-up high-impact carbon projects such as the restoration of coastal mangrove forests, which regenerate biodiverse ecosystems and benefit local communities.



GOOD

• Germany
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • May 2018 - Present

  GOOD (formerly Gexsi) is a sustainable alternative to Google, operated by our social business Good Search, together with two further social search engines: SuchHier and PandaSearch. The common idea: The revenues generated while searching the web are allocated to support good causes. This way, we all become part of communities which make a positive difference every day, with the search engines having an incredible power to share the stories about the supported solutions among an ever growing community.



GEXSI | The Global Exchange for Social Investment

• Berlin Area, Germany

• Co-Founder

  • Dec 2010 - Present

  Gexsi is a social business with the mission to close the finance gap for social entrepreneurs who invent new business models that tackle our most pressing social and environmental challenges. The enterprise developed out of an initiative of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship back in 2001 – The Global Exchange for Social Investment (GEXSI). Today, Gexsi incubates or supports the development of social startups and initiatives which use the power of entrepreneurship to make the world a better place such as: Good Search – The search engine for a better world (2018), The Generation Forest Cooperative (2016), B Corp Germany, the German chapter of B Lab Europe (2014), or the Rainforest Connect Fund (nature conservation led by a German family office) (2012).



Top Tier Impact

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member

  • Feb 2020 - Present



The Generation Forest

• Germany
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Executive Director

  • Dec 2015 - Nov 2018

  The Generation Forest Cooperative (former: Waldmenschen eG) is a social business launched in 2005. It unites an ever growing number of individuals and impact investors who jointly invest in tropical reforestation in Central America. The cooperative provides a proof of concept that biodiverse tropical forests can be restored through a self-sustaining, profitable business model, based on high-value native hardwood trees species which are grown within an everlasting cycle: www.waldmenschen.com The Generation Forest Cooperative (former: Waldmenschen eG) is a social business launched in 2005. It unites an ever growing number of individuals and impact investors who jointly invest in tropical reforestation in Central America. The cooperative provides a proof of concept that biodiverse tropical forests can be restored through a self-sustaining, profitable business model, based on high-value native hardwood trees species which are grown within an everlasting cycle: www.waldmenschen.com



B Lab Europe

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder B Corp Germany | Country Partner

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2017

  The B Lab Europe Europe is a subsidiary of B Lab, the umbrella organization of the world's largest network of social enterprises, united in the idea of using business as a force for social change. Andreas initiated and launched the German chapter of Certified B Corporations, by accrediting Gexsi as B Lab's country partner for Germany for an initial 3-year period. Gexsi's work focused reaching out to potential prospects, communication, events, and member support. The B Lab Europe Europe is a subsidiary of B Lab, the umbrella organization of the world's largest network of social enterprises, united in the idea of using business as a force for social change. Andreas initiated and launched the German chapter of Certified B Corporations, by accrediting Gexsi as B Lab's country partner for Germany for an initial 3-year period. Gexsi's work focused reaching out to potential prospects, communication, events, and member support.



The Global Exchange for Social Investment (GEXSI)

• Berlin Area, Germany

• Head

  • May 2005 - Feb 2016

  GEXSI is an initiative which had been designed back in 2001 under the leadership of Pamela Hartigan, at the time founding CEO of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The idea was to create a platform, the Global Exchange for Social Investment (GEXSI), which matches philanthropic investors with accredited social entrepreneurship initiatives around the globe. Unlike other initiatives like the recent $500 million philanthropic collaborative for system change, Co-Impact, GEXSI was only partially fueled by philanthropists and hence took a market-based approach. GEXSI generated its funding through advisory services and occasional incubation and management of social business which had been spun off, among others in Madagascar and Congo. Andreas joined the initiative as Head Development Investments in 2005, when GEXSI was turned from a program of the Schwab Foundation into a UK Charity. Later, Andreas co-founded GEXSI's offspins, GEXSI LLP and, after having moved to Berlin, Germany, GEXSI GmbH, which became Germany's second Certified B Corporation. Following a 2-year preparatory phase, Andreas, together with David Diallo and Kevin Fuchs, revamped the GEXSI idea as a digital platform which re-allocates a portion of the world's revenues from internet search engine to social entrepreneurship initiatives around the globe.



Impact Solutions GmbH

• Berlin Area, Germany

• Senior Advisor Impact Investing

  • Oct 2013 - Dec 2015

  Leading projects for corporate and public clients which relate to building new business models in the impact investment sector. A key mandate was building GIZ's Impact Investing Lab and exploring impact investment strategies for the Textilbündnis der Deutschen Wirtschaft (Partnership for Sustainable Textiles) on behalf of GIZ. At the end of 2015, the founders of Impact Solutions divided their company into a social innovation consultancy (Zero360) and an sustainability and impact-focus organizational transformation consultancy (1Transformation), which continues the impact investment advisory work.



ifok GmbH

• Germany
• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jan 2000 - Apr 2005

  Design and implementation of multi-sectoral stakeholder processes Key project: Advise to the World Economic Forum's Water Initiative Design and implementation of multi-sectoral stakeholder processes Key project: Advise to the World Economic Forum's Water Initiative



Walter Eucken Institut

• Freiburg im Breisgau

• Research Fellow

  • May 1995 - Mar 2000

  PhD in political economcy at the liberal think tank Walter Eucken Institute Area of Research: How to integrating neoliberal and communitarian roots of the Social Market Economy Multiple Publications on the Social Market Economcy PhD in political economcy at the liberal think tank Walter Eucken Institute Area of Research: How to integrating neoliberal and communitarian roots of the Social Market Economy Multiple Publications on the Social Market Economcy