Arne Kahlke

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Arne Kahlke (born March 14, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German entrepreneur, business manager and managing director of LemonSwan GmbH.

Career

Kahlke studied business administration in Hamburg . After completing his studies, he got his first job in 1996 at the Canadian company Seagram , where he was responsible for the Jim Beam brand and introduced the Captain Morgan Spiced Gold brand to the German market. Since 1999 he worked for the Ferrero group in the German market for Rocher. He then took over as co-founder of the sales and marketing management of handy.de in 2000, the majority of which was sold to Gruner + Jahr in 2002 . From 2002 to 2003 he was in charge of marketing and sales at PE Digital GmbH ( Parship ).

In 2004 Kahlke founded the German online dating agency ElitePartner and led it as CEO. In 2007 he sold ElitePartner to the former TOMORROW FOCUS AG and led the company to market leadership in 2010. In 2010, he founded various companies as an entrepreneur and business angel , including Bueroservice24.de, and looked after the company on the supervisory board until 2015. In 2012, he took over as CEO -Post at the ElitePartner competition Parship in order to lead Parship to market leadership as a change manager. In 2014, he switched to the Rocket Internet SE subsidiary Wimdu GmbH as CEO to lead the company to profitability. After the conversion, he managed it until it was sold in 2016.

In December 2016, Kahlke founded the online dating service LemonSwan GmbH. It is the first online dating agency with a free offer for single parents, students and trainees.

Since 2012, Kahlke has also been active in renting holiday homes and mainly rents out holiday homes on Fehmarn.

Web links

  • Deutsche-startups.de: Interview, LemonSwan: Arne Kahlke connects people again
  • Start-up scene: GS database, profile of Arne Kahlke
  • Start-up scene: Ex-Parship boss, the founder who understands the singles
  • Hamburg-startups.net: Startup News, LemonSwan - dating agency the fair way
  • Handelsblatt: Wimdu online portal, housing broker sued Berlin
  • Time: Finding a partner, "The resource of 'educated men' is running out"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial register of the Hamburg Local Court under HRB 89 338
  2. ↑ Commercial Register of the Local Court of Munich under HRB 133 680
  3. ↑ Commercial register of the district court Berlin-Charlottenburg under HRB 181615B
  4. ↑ Ex-competitor Arne Kahlke returns to Parship , Horizont Online.
  5. ↑ Change at the top of Wimdu: Arne Kahlke and Sören Kress new managing directors ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wimdu.de archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wimdu.de.
  6. ↑ Commercial register of the Hamburg Local Court under HRB 144571
personal data
SURNAME Kahlke, Arne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg