OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM

Franz L. Helbig: Franz has extensive venture capital and senior management experience in the U.S., and Europe. Most recently, he was CEO and Managing Director of T-Venture of America, Inc., the U.S. operation of T-Venture, the venture capital unit of Deutsche Telekom, Bonn, Germany. He has also held senior venture capital fund management positions with TIG GmbH and with the Matuschka Group, both in Berlin, and with Churchill International, San Francisco. Franz has also been a member of the board of directors of many portfolio companies from initial investment to exit.

His corporate management experience includes Johnson & Johnson, Esso International and General Motors Overseas Corporation. Franz also founded and managed an international pharmaceutical marketing business and his own consulting firm focusing on national and international market development and investment strategies for technology and consumer products corporations.

In addition, he worked with SRI (Stanford Research International) at its Economic Competitiveness Group as an investment advisor to major international economic development projects in Mexico, China, Slovakia and Slovenia. Franz holds a B.B.A. degree from Texas Technological University and Masters Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in both Economics and Political Science. He is fluent in German, English and Dutch.