Benjamin Roth (Co-Founder Urban Sports Club)
Benjamin and his Co- Founder Moritz are both passionate about innovative ideas, business models and gadgets – not only – but especially – regarding sports. Whilst working together as business consultants, they developed the concept of a platform for sports flatrates that would disrupt outdated membership models for sports and fitness. With the acquisition of its largest competitor at the end of 2016, Urban Sports Club is now the market leader in Germany and France with over 2.000 sports venues in 20 cities in both countries.
Norman Rzepka (Co-Founder Scalable Minds)
Norman loves to design elegant architectures that solve problems and scale properly. He has a long-standing experience in constructing frontend web applications with JavaScript that are both easy to use and smoothly handle large chunks of data. Although he spends most of his time on the frontend, he has built several backend systems with node.js and is highly interested in building tooling to improve developer productivity. His consulting endeavor at McKinsey helped him to understand how businesses think and operate. He is the co-founder of scalable minds and Racemap.
Greg Ryzhov (CTO Urban Sports Club)
Greg is leading Urban Sports Club’s technical team from 2016. His past experience is building tech teams and developing highly scalable and robust web solutions for e-commerce giant Lazada and online shopping club Westwing. His main expertise lays in the area of DevOps and Automation. He always creates a healthy working environment for developers by implementing efficient processes and clear communication.