Positive impact starts with us and our team

Team

Our partnership approach not only shapes our relationship with our partner companies, but also the daily collaboration within our team. Our team is characterized by diversity, entrepreneurial background and thinking, professionalism in all areas of expertise and an open, trustworthy communication culture.

From our many years of experience in, among others, family businesses, management consultancies, investment banks and M&A, we have developed a deep understanding of the typical challenges and decision-making situations of entrepreneurs and build on this understanding in the cooperation with our partners.

Everyone is encouraged to contribute and thus jointly drive our ideas and visions forward. We are united by the goal of developing companies sustainably and thus making our contribution to solving ecological and social challenges.

GREENPEAK

Antje Bräunling

Senior Investment Manager

Antje Bräunling is Senio Investment Manager at GREENPEAK and joined in 2021. Before GREENPEAK, she worked in the M&A department of a medium-sized MedTech company for 3 years. She gathered experience on both the buy- and sell-side. Additionally, she has worked in a consulting firm focused on healthcare and a Swiss fintech startup.

Antje holds a B.Sc. in Biology and an M.Sc. in Management from the Technical University of Munich.

Arne Christes

Analyst

Arne Christes has been an analyst at GREENPEAK since 2022. Previously, he gained experience in buy-side and sell-side due diligence, audit and private equity through various internships.

Arne holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen.

Benjamin Pross

Investment Manager

Benjamin Pross is an Investment Manager at GREENPEAK and joined in 2021. Before GREENPEAK, he gained experience in the tax-advisory team at EY, the buy-side M&A team at ROBUR Industry Service Group and the sell-side M&A team at GCA Altium.

Benjamin holds an M.Sc. in Financial Economics from Maastricht University and a B.A. in International Business from Nuremberg Tech.

Daniel Beringer

Managing Partner & Speaker

Daniel Beringer is a Managing Partner, co-founder and speaker at GREENPEAK. He has 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur and private equity professional with a lengthy track record of building businesses and investments within the business services, tech, real estate, and infrastructure sectors. He has helped founding and building companies with combined revenue of over € 500 mn.

Daniel graduated from New York University with an M.A. in Economics and holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Keele University. Furthermore, Daniel is participating in the YPO Presidents Program at Harvard Business School.

Florian Kopp

Managing Partner

Florian Kopp is a Managing Partner and co-founder at GREENPEAK. He has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and professional in strategy, M&A and PMI. His industry focus has consistently been on services oriented industries including industrial services, renewable energy and telecommiunications industries. Prior to his ongoing roles with ROBUR where he oversees all M&A activities and GREENPEAK, Florian led a medium sized measurement technology services business and was a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton and Theron Business Consulting.

Florian graduated from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel as Diplom-Kaufmann.

Friedrich von Kleist

Senior Investment Manager

Friedrich von Kleist is Senior Investment Manager at GREENPEAK and joined in 2021. Before GREENPEAK, he gathered experience as a project manager at a healthcare-focused consultancy, as COO at a digital health company, and investment associate at a Private Equity Fund-of-Fund.

Friedrich graduated from ESCP Europe with an M.Sc. in Management and holds a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from Kiel University. Furthermore, Friedrich is a certified German bank clerk.

Jens Cremer

Managing Partner

Jens Cremer is a Managing Partner and co-founder at GREENPEAK and mainly focusses on finance and the M&A activities. Previously he was co-founder and CFO of ROBUR Industry Service Group. Jens has many years of M&A and corporate finance experience in both small- and large-cap transactions. Prior to ROBUR, he was a member of the investment teams at Starwood Capital Group, at Westbrook Partners and iStar Europe, covering a variety of asset classes. He started his career in investment banking at JPMorgan Chase and in the Restructuring Group at UBS Investment Bank.

Jens holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Studies from Yale University (USA).

Johannes Lindinger

Senior Investment Manager

Johannes Lindinger is a senior investment manager at GREENPEAK. Previously, he was active as a small-cap investor in the German Mittelstand for more than 10 years, also supporting several companies operationally as managing director or CFO. Johannes began his professional career at a medium-sized management consultancy, where he spent four years assisting companies, shareholders, investors, banks and insolvency administrators in the purchase and sale of companies.

Johannes holds a degree in business administration from University of Regensburg and the Copenhagen Business School. Prior to his studies, he completed an apprenticeship as a banker

Dr. Julia Keim

General Counsel

Dr. Julia Keim joined GREENPEAK in 2022 as General Counsel and member of the leadership team. She has over 20 years of professional experience as lawyer. Julia first worked at renowned international law firms and then for Microsoft for 12 years, including as European Legal Lead for complex transformational deals. She has an entrepreneurial background.

Julia studied law and attended law school in Munich. She holds a phD with distinction from the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition and an LL.M. in International and European commercial law. Julia further is a Professional Coach, accredited by the International Coaching Federation.

Lena Weber

Associate

Lena Weber joined Greenpeak as an Associate in 2022. Prior to Greenpeak, she worked for more than 3 years in Transaction Advisory Services at Ebner Stolz, where she gained experience in financial due diligence for buy and sell side projects.

Lena holds an M.Sc. in Finance and Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich and a B.Sc in International Business Administration from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

Lita Huber

Analyst

Lita Huber joined GREENPEAK as an Analyst in 2022. Prior to GREENPEAK, she gained experience in corporate finance M&A advisory at Deloitte and in private equity at Egeria.

Lita holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in Finance and Accounting from Ludwigs-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich.

Magali Guyot

Finance

Magali has 15 years of professional experience in various finance and controlling positions. After graduating in business administration, she worked in the telecommunication and media industry before she moved to the start-up world to be responsible for all kinds of financial topics.

Before joining ACADEMIA, she worked in the consulting area.

Maximilian Glass

Associate

Maximilian Glass joined GREENPEAK as an Associate in 2022. Prior to GREENPEAK, he gained experience in the corporate finance department of Kroll, formerly Duff & Phelps, and in the venture capital fund Plug and Play Tech Center.

Maximilian holds an M.Sc. in Management with a specialization in Finance & Investments from IE University Madrid and a B.A. in Corporate Management & Economics from Zeppelin University, Lake Constance, Germany.

Dr. Michael Ruoff

Associated Partner

Dr. Michael Ruoff is Associated Partner at GREENPEAK. He has more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance, M&A and private equity. Starting his career as a lawyer, Michael set up a solar plant developer and worked as General Counsel for a distressed investment group and a small-cap private equity fund, before he co-founded a boutique venture capital investor in the healthcare space. Michael joined GREENPEAK Partners in 2020.

Michael holds a doctorate in law and graduated from Munich business school (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) as Diplom-Kaufmann.

Oliver Scholl

CFO

Oliver Scholl joined GREENPEAK as CFO in 2021. Before GREENPEAK, Oliver worked as an auditor and partner at Poppinga Stomberg & Kollegen GmbH, gathered experience as CFO and Head of Finance and Operations Germany at Klemme AG (subsidiary of ARYZTA AG) and Head of Finance at amedes Holding AG. He started his professional career at PwC Germany in 1997.

Oliver is a certified public accountant and holds a diploma in business administration from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Simon Ganser

Finance

Stefan Melzer

Senior Investment Manager

Stefan Melzer is Senior Investment Manager at GREENPEAK. He is a private equity professional with more than 4 years of experience in M&A transactions and corporate finance. Previously he worked as an Investment Manager at ROBUR Industry Service Group and in M&A advisory and strategy consulting projects.

Stefan holds a Double Degree M.Sc. in Finance and CEMS MIM from NOVA SBE and graduated from Munich Business School (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) with a B.Sc. in Business Administration.

Valentina Stadler

ESG Officer

Valentina Stadler is Senior ESG Advisor for GREENPEAK. Valentina has more than 20 years of capital market experience, a large part of it in the role of Deputy Head of Financial Credit Research at UniCredit. Her special focus is sustainable finance, impact investing and green bonds. She has deep sector expertise in the various facets of sustainability and ESG-focused investing from several advisory projects in the finance/fintech industry. She started her career at ideaglobal.com as an economist for Eastern European and was CEO of an internet start-up in the early part of her working life.

Valentina graduated with an M.Sc. in Economics and a B.Sc. in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE).