Lisa Gerkens
Lead Product Strategy at Forward31 | by Porsche Digital- Claim this Profile
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German Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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French Elementary proficiency
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Simeon Wittenberg
Lisa’s universal talent from strategically conceptualising and building products, as well as committing customers and partners is of extraordinary value for any team. I am pleased that over the course of two years we formed a highly collaborative and diverse team of strategic designers, that defines our company culture actively every day. Lisa is extremely efficient in bringing people with different intentions onto the same page, by building teams that enjoy collaborating closely and create a strong impact. I am particularly impressed by Lisa’s principles to stand up for her team and to fight for the right and reasonable decisions. No matter how rough the topics are, Lisa will lead any team back on track. Lisa’s value to Lab1886 and any team cannot be overestimated.
Oliver Franke
Lisa is one of three people I would start a company with no questions asked. She is a great mentor and team lead, with a strong sense for team health and overall culture. She reliably speaks up if there are issues, always with the focus to improve the situation. She always shows up prepared for all eventualities. I’ve worked with Lisa on a B2B Industry 4.0 Product for half a year and have learnt much during that time. It’s amazing to experience first hand how outstanding mentorship helped me becoming a better person and product manager myself. Having founded a startup herself in the past, she continues to keep her sense of ownership, caring for what the team builds and how. She has impressive stakeholder management skills and manages to build lasting relationships with stakeholders irrespective of how hard situations might be.
Simeon Wittenberg
Lisa’s universal talent from strategically conceptualising and building products, as well as committing customers and partners is of extraordinary value for any team. I am pleased that over the course of two years we formed a highly collaborative and diverse team of strategic designers, that defines our company culture actively every day. Lisa is extremely efficient in bringing people with different intentions onto the same page, by building teams that enjoy collaborating closely and create a strong impact. I am particularly impressed by Lisa’s principles to stand up for her team and to fight for the right and reasonable decisions. No matter how rough the topics are, Lisa will lead any team back on track. Lisa’s value to Lab1886 and any team cannot be overestimated.
Oliver Franke
Lisa is one of three people I would start a company with no questions asked. She is a great mentor and team lead, with a strong sense for team health and overall culture. She reliably speaks up if there are issues, always with the focus to improve the situation. She always shows up prepared for all eventualities. I’ve worked with Lisa on a B2B Industry 4.0 Product for half a year and have learnt much during that time. It’s amazing to experience first hand how outstanding mentorship helped me becoming a better person and product manager myself. Having founded a startup herself in the past, she continues to keep her sense of ownership, caring for what the team builds and how. She has impressive stakeholder management skills and manages to build lasting relationships with stakeholders irrespective of how hard situations might be.
Simeon Wittenberg
Lisa’s universal talent from strategically conceptualising and building products, as well as committing customers and partners is of extraordinary value for any team. I am pleased that over the course of two years we formed a highly collaborative and diverse team of strategic designers, that defines our company culture actively every day. Lisa is extremely efficient in bringing people with different intentions onto the same page, by building teams that enjoy collaborating closely and create a strong impact. I am particularly impressed by Lisa’s principles to stand up for her team and to fight for the right and reasonable decisions. No matter how rough the topics are, Lisa will lead any team back on track. Lisa’s value to Lab1886 and any team cannot be overestimated.
Oliver Franke
Lisa is one of three people I would start a company with no questions asked. She is a great mentor and team lead, with a strong sense for team health and overall culture. She reliably speaks up if there are issues, always with the focus to improve the situation. She always shows up prepared for all eventualities. I’ve worked with Lisa on a B2B Industry 4.0 Product for half a year and have learnt much during that time. It’s amazing to experience first hand how outstanding mentorship helped me becoming a better person and product manager myself. Having founded a startup herself in the past, she continues to keep her sense of ownership, caring for what the team builds and how. She has impressive stakeholder management skills and manages to build lasting relationships with stakeholders irrespective of how hard situations might be.
Simeon Wittenberg
Lisa’s universal talent from strategically conceptualising and building products, as well as committing customers and partners is of extraordinary value for any team. I am pleased that over the course of two years we formed a highly collaborative and diverse team of strategic designers, that defines our company culture actively every day. Lisa is extremely efficient in bringing people with different intentions onto the same page, by building teams that enjoy collaborating closely and create a strong impact. I am particularly impressed by Lisa’s principles to stand up for her team and to fight for the right and reasonable decisions. No matter how rough the topics are, Lisa will lead any team back on track. Lisa’s value to Lab1886 and any team cannot be overestimated.
Oliver Franke
Lisa is one of three people I would start a company with no questions asked. She is a great mentor and team lead, with a strong sense for team health and overall culture. She reliably speaks up if there are issues, always with the focus to improve the situation. She always shows up prepared for all eventualities. I’ve worked with Lisa on a B2B Industry 4.0 Product for half a year and have learnt much during that time. It’s amazing to experience first hand how outstanding mentorship helped me becoming a better person and product manager myself. Having founded a startup herself in the past, she continues to keep her sense of ownership, caring for what the team builds and how. She has impressive stakeholder management skills and manages to build lasting relationships with stakeholders irrespective of how hard situations might be.
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Experience
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Forward31 | by Porsche Digital
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Germany
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Product Strategy
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Aug 2020 - Present
Foward31 is the Company Builder for PorscheDigital. We build Ventures together with Founders and invest in them. - Responsible for the Forward31 validation approach. - Guiding our Ventures from initial tests to their first MSP. - Marrying product development and early sales efforts. - Managing the full spin-off process. - Representing Porsche as an investor after the spin-off. Ventures I work with: aware_ ( https://aware-theplatform.com/ ) RYDES ( https://www.rydes.com/ ) and 4 more in stealth Show less
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Head of Strategic Design
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Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Lab1886 is the Company Builder of Daimler.- Representing the Strategic Design in management and sales efforts- Leading validation, development and commercialization projects up to a team size of 18 humans - Full responsibility for 10 Senior Strategic Designers acting independently over various projects- Building up qualitative product testing practices for the whole organisation- Extensive work in production processes on automotive shopfloors
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Senior Strategic Designer
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Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
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LeeLuu Labs
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Finland
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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Co- founder / Head of Product Development
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Dec 2014 - Jul 2018
LeeLuu Labs is a interactive textile startup developing eTextile interfaces based in Helsinki, Finland. LeeLuu Labs's first product: LeeLuu Nightlights, are soft touch controlled nightlights. They are your kid’s friend in fighting their fear of darkness. LeeLuu Labs is a interactive textile startup developing eTextile interfaces based in Helsinki, Finland. LeeLuu Labs's first product: LeeLuu Nightlights, are soft touch controlled nightlights. They are your kid’s friend in fighting their fear of darkness.
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Designer
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2011 - 2011
Graphic design, data visualisation and workshop design for clients such as Schlumberger, SNCF and Pol Editeur. Graphic design, data visualisation and workshop design for clients such as Schlumberger, SNCF and Pol Editeur.
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Education
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Aalto University
Master of Arts (MA), Collaborative and Industrial Design -
Köln International School of Design
Bachelor of Arts (BA), MEDes European Design -
ME310
Redesigning the firefighting experience in collaboration with d.school, Paris for Thales Optronics.