Jan Hinrichs

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Biography

Mr. Jan Hinrichs serves as General Manager at Blue Fund Consulting & Invest. He served as Managing Director at Erstling As a bank clerk who graduated in business management (BA), he collected his first international experience as a management trainee at IBM in New York. Other stations were the several years' managing of a family-owned retail company as well as consultancy for ERP projects implementing software tools in the specialized retail business. In their responsibility as General Manager of the ASSIMA group, a marketing and buying group for accessories retail companies, he integrated the takeover of the competitor ANCONIA successfully into the company and developed the group thus to the market leader in this market segment. A real innovation was the application of the first WEB-based ERP system as an application service provider for connected partners as well as in 1999 the development of the B2B platform "Accessories Online World". In 2001, he was nominated as a board member of SPIELE MAX AG with responsibility for the restructuring and turn-around of the company. SPIELE MAX is a retail chain selling toys, baby hardware, and kids' fashion. After a successful turn-around, reorganization of the shareholder structure, and in 2008 successful sale to a strategic investor, an internationally active retail group based in Poland, Mr. Hinrichs accompanies the integration in the group as a chairman of the board of directors until the end of 2011. In the function of an advisory board member and private investor, Mr. Hinrichs has accompanied the development of the e-commerce company BRANDS4FRIENDS as a Start-Up from 2007 up to 2010 ending with the successful sale to eBay. Besides the professional expert's knowledge, Mr. Hinrichs is also an excellent team player and motivator. In 1985 he received the medal of honors "Silbernes Lorbeerblatt" due to his victory in the German National Offshore Sailing team during the "Admiral's Cup".