Joachim Schoss

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Joachim Schoss (born March 31, 1963 in Essen ) is a German entrepreneur and founder .

Life

Joachim Schoss studied business administration at the University of Hamburg . From 1986 to 1990 he worked as a management consultant for Gruber, Titze & Partner. From 1990 to 1998 he was co-founder, CEO and majority shareholder in sales of TellSell Consulting GmbH in Frankfurt. In 1992 he was also co-founder of the Telcare call center, which was sold in 1997 with 350 employees to the US market leader Sykes Enterprises . In 1998 he founded ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin together with Arndt Kwiatkowski and Depfa-Bank and in September the Scout24 group with an investment by Metro founder Otto Beisheim . In 2000 he was appointed CEO of the parent company Beisheim Holding Schweiz AG, into which he contributed his shares in Scout24 and in which he subsequently held 30%. He handed over the office of CEO of Scout24 to Christian Mangstl and remained Chairman of the Board of Directors of Scout24 until it was sold to Deutsche Telekom in 2003.

In November 2002 Joachim Schoss was the victim of a serious traffic accident in South Africa when his motorcycle was rammed by a drunk driver of a Golf. In the accident, he lost his right arm and his right leg and barely survived, contrary to the doctors' prognoses, including by adding 60 liters of blood . In 2004 he set up the MyHandicap foundation , a non-profit organization that operates an internet portal for the disabled . The idea of ​​establishing the foundation arose in the course of rehabilitation , as there was no information portal for the disabled at the time.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Goldbach Group and the Globalance-Bank, deputy chairman of the supervisory board and shareholder of the Herzogpark banking house and other startups.

Joachim Schoss lives near Zurich . He is married for the second time and has six children.

Awards

In February 2002 he was voted “ Business Angel of the Year” by the Swiss business magazine Bilanz . In 2010 he was awarded the Arosa humor scoop . In 2011, Joachim Schoss took 6th place in the “Founder of the Decade” election by gruenderszene.de. In 2012, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed Joachim Schoss to an eight-person advisory body to strengthen the German Internet scene.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lisa Becker: The chance for a second life. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 12, 2010, accessed September 24, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Oliver Stock: Joachim Schoss: The man with the two sides. In: Handelsblatt . December 7, 2007, accessed October 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Tobias Kollmann (Ed.): E-Venture Management , Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, p. XXIX.
  4. ↑ Joachim Schoss. In: gruenderszene.de . Retrieved October 28, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Joachim Schoss. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 2, 2015 . 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.herzogpark.eu
  6. ↑ Joel Kaczmarek: Founder of the Decade - That says the jury. In: gruenderszene.de . September 21, 2011, accessed October 28, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Nora-Vanessa Wohlert: Merkel and the wild eight. In: gruenderszene.de . June 5, 2012, accessed October 28, 2015 .
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SURNAME Shot, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and founder
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1963
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