Since July 2015 I'm VP Marketing & Communications Chief Inbound Officer (CIO) of vacation rental meta search engine HomeToGo.
2012 - 2015: Tschö Köln. Grüezi Zürich. Hallo Berlin!
Since July 2012 I'm Director SEO Europe of travel search engine KAYAK, working at their European headquarters based in Zurich (Switzerland) Berlin. In Germany, KAYAK operates under the brand name SWOODOO and Austrians are probably familiar with CHECKFELIX.COM. Update: I left the company in June 2015.
2011 - 2015: Online marketing consultancy from scratch.
In 2011, I founded Schwarz & Kollegen GmbH & Co. KG in Cologne (Germany). The company's focus is helping our clients build up their own successful in-house online marketing department. Schwarz & Kollegen is certified Google AdWords Partner and I am listed in the well-respected KfW-Beraterbörse.
2005 - 2011: The evolution of an online marketing agency.
Starting in 2005 I worked in several positions for the web design company absofort Erfolg im Internet GmbH & Co. KG, based in Herford near Bielefeld (Germany). I was the first employee of the newly-founded marketing department and after the company got bought by Cologne-based Media Ventures GmbH in 2008 I was the first who moved to Cologne.
I left the company in 2011 as head of the SEO department and as an associate partner.