Benjamin Bilski

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Benjamin Bilski, Founder & CEO SwipeStox and Board Member NAGA Group AG

Benjamin Bilski (born August 11, 1988 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) is a former German swimmer and internet entrepreneur. He is the managing director of the social trading app SwipeStox and the founder and board member of The NAGA Group AG. In addition, Bilski is co-founder of Angelplatz.de .

Personal history

After graduating from high school in 2008 at the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium in Wiesbaden , he studied from 2010 to 2013 at the accadis Hochschule Bad Homburg . From 2013 to 2014 he studied at the EBS University of Economics and Law and graduated with a master's degree in management.

Athletic career

At the beginning of 2000, Bilski started swimming at the Hessian SG Wetterau and was able to put himself at the top of his age groups in the disciplines freestyle and back early on . After moving to SC Wiesbaden 1911 eV in 2004, Bilski was appointed to the youth national team of the German Swimming Association . After winning several German youth championship titles and fifth place at the European Junior Championships in Palma in 2006, as well as his first A-squad appearance in the "Open de Paris" in 2007, Bilski joined the Hessian Sports Association's Olympic perspective in 2007 called.

In the years 2007 to 2009 Bilski 2088 was successful several times as the German team champion with the SC Wiesbaden 1911 eV and reached 2nd and 3rd places in the 200 m butterfly and 200 m medley at the German short course championships ( 2008 , 2009 ) and 7th place at the Swimming World Cup in Berlin 2008.

In 2009 Bilski won the only pool swimmer medal at the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung ( Taiwan ). Bilski ended his swimming career in 2010.

Sporting successes

  • Multiple Hessian and South German master
  • German junior champion over 200 freestyle, 2006
  • 5th place at the Junior European Championships 2006 in Mallorca
  • German runner-up at the German Short Course Championships 2008 over 200 m butterfly
  • 7th place in the 200 m freestyle world cup in Berlin 2008
  • German champions with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in Berlin 2008
  • German runner-up at the German short course championships over 200 m butterfly (2009)
  • 3rd place over 200 m medley at the German Short Course Championships over 200 m medley (2009)
  • German team champion with SC Wiesbaden in 2008
  • 3rd place in the 200 m obstacle swim at the World Games in Kaohsiung 2009 with a German record (1: 57.00 min)

Records

German records
200 m obstacle swim (long course) 01: 57.00 min July 23, 2009 Kaohsiung, Taiwan

As of August 29, 2016

Professional background

At the age of 15 he was selling MP3 players on the Internet . Since 2009 he has been selling fishing accessories online and founded the online shop angelplatz.de .

In January 2015, Bilski set up a social network for stock market traders with the SwipeStox app. The app has several hundred thousand users and is financed , among others, by the German private bank Hauck & Aufhäuser . SwipeStox employed 40 people in three European locations in August 2016.

At the same time, Bilski founded the FinTech company The Naga Group AG together with Yasin Sebastian Qureshi (founder of Varengold Bank ) and his colleague Christoph Brück , which took over the SwipeStox activities and developed other business models in the financial sector. The Naga Group has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the Scale segment since July 2017 , which primarily provides growth capital for small and medium-sized companies .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Us - SwipeStox. Retrieved August 14, 2016 (American English).
  2. ^ About - The Naga Group AG. Retrieved August 14, 2016 (American English).
  3. ↑ Angelplatz.de founder builds "Idealo for used goods". Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Marco Trumtrar: LSN Homepage -. (No longer available online.) In: www.lsn-info.de. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lsn-info.de
  5. ↑ FOCUS Online: Lifeguards clear at the World Games. Retrieved August 15, 2016 .
  6. ↑ WG 2009 - DLRG DLRG - LV Saxony-Anhalt. In: sachsen-anhalt.dlrg.de. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  7. ^ Individual - German Life Rescue Society eV In: www.dlrg.de. Retrieved August 20, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Angelplatz GmbH: Your fishing shop for professional fishing and high-quality fishing accessories and fishing supplies. In: fishing spot. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Hauck & Aufhäuser acquires stake in The Naga Group AG | Business Wire. In: www.businesswire.com. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Home - THE NAGA GROUP AG. In: THE NAGA GROUP AG. Retrieved August 14, 2016 (American English).
  11. ^ The Naga Group AG - Important information on the IPO , boerse-frankfurt.de, accessed on June 9, 2016.
  12. ↑ The NAGA Group AG: Hamburg FinTech company THE NAGA GROUP AG announces IPO. Inclusion in the 'Scale' segment of Deutsche Börse AG, Frankfurt, planned. , Naga Group AG press release, June 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bilski, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer and internet entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Soden am Taunus