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Our Team
Located in beautiful Barcelona, Foundum is being created by Daniela Arens and Christopher Pommerening They combine their experience, knowledge and passion around Entrepreneurship, Company Creation & Growth, Venture Investments, Online Community Development, and Internet Start-Ups.
Christopher Pommerening
Non exec. Co-Founder
With his experience as an entrepreneur and investor, Christopher brings to Foundum the long-term vision and strategy. Currently he is the founding Partner of ACTIVE Venture Partners, the founder & chairman of the Venturepreneurs' Organisation, advisor and founding member of Gild International Private Business Club and founder and chairman of Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Commission.
In the past, Christopher has co-founded several ventures in the tech industry such as AutoScout24 Spain, Boat24, VCmore, and has also taken an active role in several entrepreneurial associations like EO Europe & Africa, initiated the Global Entrepreneurs Week in Spain and created the vision for the Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Commission.
Christopher’s entrepreneurial thought: Entrepreneurship is the most powerful concept to drive positive change and make the world a better place!
Daniela Arens
CEO & Co-Founder
Daniela founded the startup, alongside with Christopher, taking the active role of CEO and leading the various strategic decisions around the website. She has extensive experience in the Internet sector especially around Social Media and Online Communities.
Prior to her Foundum adventure she was part of the founding team of the Start-Up Linqia, a marketplace for social networks. She has been moderating the Global Business Women Group on XING and is active ambassador of the expat community Internations.
Daniela’s entrepreneurial thought: Entrepreneurship provides you with freedom and gives the opportunity to contribute your own sandcorn to make this world a better place.
A great team of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial enthusiasts and supporters is growing around the vision of Foundum and are helping us to turn this dream into reality:
Claudio Di Gregorio
Business Development
Claudio is responsible for Business Development at Foundum. His role is to actively help in the development of the website as well as executing consulting projects in the area of entrepreneurship, social media and event management. He helped organise SIME Barcelona and has an active role in the Venturepreneurs’ Organization. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, Italy, tennis and travelling.
He became an entrepreneurial enthusiast during his university times when he created the Entrepreneurship Club at LaSalle University Barcelona. He is from Italy and lived between Rome, Milan, Geneva, Istanbul, Moscow, San Francisco and now sunny Barcelona.
Claudio’s entrepreneurial thought: Entrepreneurship is about learning a great deal from people and experiences in a cohesive and caring team.
Ladislav Martincik
Technical Lead
Ladislav is a passionate developer from the Czech Republic. He is responsible for developing the website and translating ideas and words into a technical reality. As a team leader, he is one of the rare examples of managers who can lead by example and encourage people in the team to become better professionals.
In the past, he has been working as a web developer in companies like ISSA Czech, Skvely.CZ (which he also co-founded), Visrez – Webmedia, Ticketsolve.com and Xing. He loves reading and constantly learning and plays lots of squash.
Ladislav’s entrepreneurial thought: Entrepreneurship is freedom and possibility to learn super fast by helping others.
Sara Tendero
Content Management
Sara is the local member of the team. She often acts as the bridge between the local culture and the international approach of Foundum. She also helps developing the social media related projects.
Together with international and entrepreneurial vision, Sara is passionate about everything which is related to taking things from dream to a reality, dynamic enviroments, event, project management and entrepreneurship. She graduated from LaSalle University Barcelona.
Sara’s entrepreneurial thought: Entrepreneurship is passion, the starting point, the process that better reflects your own stamp and dreams.
Zdenko Nevrala
Software Engineer
Zdenko is another Czech example of a passionate and dedicated developer who is ensuring the platform's infrastructure and security. He completes our developer team with great analytical skills and a pragmatic view.
Zdenko has several years of experience within the field of web technologies. In the past he has been working on different projects such as web auction portals, real estate projects and events managment systems like Visrez in Ireland. He is becoming a ukulele expert and also enjoys squash.
Zdenko’s entrepreneurial thought: Entrepreneurship is more options for my life and better ways to reach my aims. Foundum is one way of doing so.