Jakob Kalbfell

Managing Director & CSO

Bio

Jakob is Managing Director & CSO at Amaze Growth GmbH.

Jakob Kalbfell is founder and managing director of a small sales & consulting firm for IT as well as a co-founder and member of the executive team for a non-profit organization. He has over 10 years of professional experience in the digital / IT sector and worked for various Start-Ups as well as large international corporations, in various roles and functions.

In addition to his years working for Google in different countries and roles in sales, business development and as a program head in strategic partnerships Europe for Android he engaged over the years in other industries such as Automotive, SAAS and Publishing. His academic studies resulted in a Bachelor degree at ESB Reutlingen Business School as well as a Masters from the CEMS program at IVEY in Canada and an MSc. at the Norwegian School of Economics.

Jakob speaks German, English, French and Spanish.

Restorative

Analytical

Achiever

Technology

News & Media

Consulting

Startup

Philosophy

“Failure is not the opposite of success:
it’s part of success.”

Credentials

+7 years at Google
Project and program lead as well as team lead in sales, business development and strategic partnerships teams in Dublin, Berlin and Munich

+10 years Zukunft Madagaskar
Social Entrepreneur – founder and member of the executive team for a non-profit organisation working on improving access to education in Madagascar

+1.5 years startup
Founder and CEO in two separate start-ups, focus on commerce and SAAS