Norman F. Foerderer Entrepreneur
Welcome
Norman F. Foerderer was born 1969 in Karlsruhe. He was fascinated by the technical world right from the beginning. At the age of twelve, he owned as the solely pupil in class the brand new home computer VC–20 at the time. Finally, at the age of sixteen, he founded his own mail order shop for computer games.
First steps
Having finished his apprenticeship, he started working in the area of marketing and mortgage credits in a large insurance corporation where he stood out for his suggestions for improvement. In 1995, he finished his part-time study Business Sciences and Marketing at Merkur Akademie. In the same year, searching for a new challenge he started his new position at Product Manager at Spoerle Electronics. As Product Manager, he was responsible for more than 2.500 different semiconductor ICs and a yearly revenue volume of DM 25 million.
Fast forward
Working with Eric Schuck, today President of the worldwide distribution of semiconductors of the Arrow/Zeuss group and the core business of Spoerle, Norman´s economic understanding made him an integral part of the Advanced Technical Products group. Being the responsible manager, he built up the field of Industrial WLAN Systems for Spoerle, including the training of the central European sales offices as well as the acquisition and support of international key accounts. Norman F . Foerderer was allocated the award of Mediator of the year by the Arrow Group, one of the Fortune 500 companies of the USA with more than 13.000 employess, in 1998.
CEO
Before Norman F. Foerderer was appointed to the managing board of Lifefriend AG, he took responsibility of the partner network and marketing of conceptware ag, a company in the field of Enterprise CMS systems.
With the Lifefriend AG in Potsdam, Norman F. Foerderer further developed the idea of the founder Gero M. Bauknecht from a kitchen entertainment solution to a lifestyle, home entertainment system with credit card loyalty and a platform for commerce platform. Later, he developed business plans for the group in the field of CRM and document management archiving und become Director Sales of a affiliate in the IBM Lotus Notes area.
A quick view of open source methods
In the year 2002, Norman F. Foerderer became a member of the management board of Innoopract, a specialist for Java development tools situated in Karlsruhe. He successfully positioned Innoopract in the Eclipse Organization Board. He further developed the corporate marketing until 2003.
Developing a new star of consumer software
Since November 2003, Norman F. Foerderer is responsible as Vice President Sales & Online Marketing of Sales, Buisness Development and Marketing at Rapidsolution Software AG. In 2008 he finished his second study and gratuated with an Master grade for International Marketing. He successfully positioned the consumer software brands AudialsOne, Tunebite, Radiotracker, Podspider, Tagrunner, Ringhero and Audials Mobile in the worldwide ESD, retail and with cover mounts in Computer magazines. The latest Audials News
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