Axel Schmiegelow

Axel Schmiegelow (2012)

Axel Schmiegelow (born June 3, 1972 in Hamburg ) is a German entrepreneur , founder and investor in start-up companies in the social media sector .

Life

Axel Schmiegelow studied law at the Sorbonne University from 1990 to 1992 and at the University of Cologne from 1992 to 1995 . His focus was on business law and international law. Schmiegelow founded an internet agency with partners in May 1998. As the founder and managing director of a management consultancy, Axel Schmiegelow invests in various startups that focus on IT products and digital services. His active portfolio includes armedangels and itravel. The former holdings include a. coupies, Qype, sevenload and PaperC. In the role of management as well as on the company's supervisory board, he was actively responsible for the development of these various holdings over several years.

Since 2012, his entrepreneurial activity has essentially focused on building itravel as a platform for individual modular trips.

For the specialist group Social Media in the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) e. V. and for the working group IPTV / WebTV in the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) e. V. Axel Schmiegelow was elected chairman from 2009 to 2010. In 2009 he was a deputy member of the WDR Broadcasting Council . Before that he was Vice President of the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft e. V.

Selected lectures

• 2014: Omnichannel vs Pure Player - which sales model has the best chances? Touristik Marketing Summit, FVW and Horizont, Frankfurt, February 2014
• 2013: "Customers in power - How tablets and social media are radically changing distribution in the travel market", fvw Online Marketing Day on June 5, 2013 in Berlin
• 2012: Leisure Travel Booking reinvented - Disintermediating Tour Operators and OTAs , Keynote, NOAH Internet Conference 2012, San Francisco
• 2010: The Future of the Internet , Keynote, Internet Congress iico
• 2009: Debate about TV 2.0 - DLM Symposium 2009
• 2009: Social Media: How it changed society and how the business works , Keynote, CeBIT Global Conferences
• Further keynotes at LeWeb , Web 2.0 Congress, DLD , next conference , Medientage Munich , German Media Congress , Supernova and SIME

Awards

• 2009: Top manager of the year 2009, among the top 20 most influential managers in the media industry, W&V , issue 1/10
• 2008: Red Herring 100 Global Award
• 2007: Red Herring 100 Europe Award
• 1990: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
• 1990: National winner in the national foreign language competition

Publications

• Axel Schmiegelow, Marc Mielau: Brand Management in Social Media - New Paths to the Consumer Heart ; published in Achim Beißwenger (Ed.): YouTube und seine Kinder . Nomos, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-8329-5241-9
• Section Social Media: Social Media Compass , Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft eV (Ed.), Düsseldorf 2009
• Axel Schmiegelow: Added-Value Information - Communication, Markets, and Working patterns in the information Society , World Business Dialogue (OFW eV) (Ed.), Cologne 1995.

Web links

Commons : Axel Schmiegelow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile at kressköpfe , accessed on February 18, 2018.
2. ↑ CrunchBase: CrunchBase: Axel Schmiegelow. February 6, 2011, accessed February 23, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Alexander Hüsing: Axel Schmiegelow invests in the PaperC specialist book platform. In: German Startups. Alexander Hüsing, July 22, 2011, accessed on May 26, 2019 . 
4. ↑ dw capital GmbH: dw capital website: portfolio. (No longer available online.) October 12, 2012, archived from the original on November 25, 2015 ; Retrieved October 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ LinkedIn profile. Retrieved February 18, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Ascher, Andreas: Section Social Media in the BVDW elects the chair. (No longer available online.) November 10, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 23, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ Infopark AG: Keynote: The future of the Internet. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 23, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Broadcasting Council. December 2, 2009, accessed February 23, 2011 . 
9. ↑ Horizont editorial staff: Arndt Groth remains BVDW President / Mehta and Fortmann move up. June 28, 2005, accessed February 23, 2011 . 
10. ^ FVW: Program of the Tourism Marketing Summit. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 19, 2018 ; accessed on February 18, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Axel Schmiegelow (CEO itravel): "How Tablets & Social Media die Distr ... Accessed July 31, 2018 . 
12. ^ State media authorities: program of the DLM symposium. Retrieved February 18, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Advertising & Selling editorial team: 16th place: Axel Schmiegelow. (No longer available online.) January 8, 2010, archived from the original on July 29, 2009 ; Retrieved February 23, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ Business On editorial team: sevenload received the “Red Herring 100 Global Award”. January 20, 2009, accessed February 23, 2011 . 
15. ^ Hüsing, Alexander: Red Herring 100 Europe - The winners from Germany. April 18, 2008, accessed February 23, 2011 .