The digital transformation is the industrial revolution of the 21st century.

Consulting

Strategies for digital transformation, decarbonization, growth and innovation of established companies

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Consulting

We develop digital strategies for companies and support their implementation. New business models; corporate innovation, incubation or venturing; building news skills and changing corporate cultures to defend disruptive challengers.

Advisory

Board roles in the digital sector and Advisory of financial investors in transactions

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Advisory

We support corporate investors as external advisor and board member after carve outs and acquisitions of digital business models.

We consult financial investors as senior advisor during due diligence and value creation. After the transaction we coinvest and assume responsibility as board member.

Investments

Business Angel investments in digital growth companies, focus sectors are Real Estate Tech, Green Tech, Marketplaces and B2B-Services

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Investments

We support founders with our experience in scaling digital businesses. As non executive director we are mentor and coach and open our exclusive network.

Marc Stilke


Entrepreneur / Non Executive Director / Investor / Advisor

20 years digital transformation as CEO, dozens of advisory and board mandates, various successful investments, 1000 right decisions and a few wrong ones – looking back, these were the most beneficiary.

Milestones

  • 1987 – 1992: Business Administration at University of Mannheim
  • 1993 – 2000: Bertelsmann AG - Assistant to the CEO and Publishing Director at Gabler und Gruner+Jahr
  • 2000 – 2004: Lycos Europe NV – Managing Director
  • 2004 - 2009: AdLINK Media AG (United Internet AG) – Speaker of the Board
  • 2009 - 2015: ImmobilienScout24 GmbH - CEO
  • seit 2016: LichtBlick SE – Chairman of the Board
    idealista S.A. – Member of the Supervisory Board
    Bitstone Capital – Venture Partner
    Various investments and board roles in tech companies

Skills

Marc Stilke supports his companies as board member. His areas of focus are strategies for digital transformation and sustainability, scaling of business models and value creation. Being at home in the startup as well as in the corporate world, he is a trusted sparringspartner for founders and managers, when it comes to digital strategy and growth by innovation. His own entrepreneurial experience as CEO and investor in the sectors Real Estate Tech and Green Tech gives him unmatched credibility for this. He is familiar with different shareholder and governance settings, whether family owned , global corporate or Private Equity. He supports founder teams in scaling their businesses and organisations as well as implementing value creation strategies after funding rounds.

As chairman he developed the sustainable energy pioneer LichtBlick to Germany´s leading green energy provider with more then 1.7 m customers. Based on a complete transformation the company became a tech enabled integrated green energy solutions provider.

He developed ImmobilienScout24 from the leading property marketplace to the publicly traded industry platform for real estate and thus digitalized the complete value chain for buying and selling real estate in Germany. Immobilienscout24 was awarded many years as one of the top „Great Place to Work“ companies and combined financial success with innovation and inspiring culture.

At Lycos Europe and AdLINK Internet Media AG (part of United Internet AG) he introduced and led agile product development processes and internationalized digital advertising models across Europe.

Credentials

EQT

„Marc has been a valuable advisor to us on the board of idealista. He has deep expertise and experience, so talks with knowledge and credibility when it comes to classifieds businesses. He offers real value to the board discussions but is also the lead director on the board, forming the bridge between us as majority shareholders and founders. And last but not least, he is an overall great person to work with!“

Bert Janssens , Partner and Head of Private Equity Western Europe at EQT

Lanxess

„Marc Stilke supports us as advisory board member of chemondis since 2019. He has been instrumental on our way to become the leading marketplace for chemicals in Europe. With his experience in scaling marketplaces and his passion about digitalizing the processes of the chemical industry, he is a valuable sparringspartner for us in the board and for our management.“

Matthias Zachert, CEO Lanxess AG

LichtBlick

„Marc has been our trusted independent chairman of the board of our 100% daughter company LichtBlick SE since Eneco acquired the company in 2017. He brings a wealth of experience in the innovative tech / digital / IT areas, which is highly valuable to LichtBlick in the transition from a traditional electricity and gas supplier to a fully digital-enabled "energy as a service" company. His track record at LichtBlick has been impressive: we have grown the company both organically and through successful acquisitions to almost double its size in terms of number of customers and profitability, we have migrated the in-house developed legacy IT systems to cloud-based scalable platforms, and we have fully replaced the leadership team with ambitious talents from the younger generation.“

Kees-Jan Rameau, Member of the Management Board Eneco N.V.

IONIQ

„Marc is a valuable advisor for our ventures as well as for our group. He supports with his experience and his network in finding partners, recruiting founders and scaling our ventures.“

Jan Beckers, CEO and founder IONIQ Group and BIT Capital

Jones Lang LaSalle

„I value Marc as a great brainstorming partner on questions around the digital challenges facing us, who is providing thoughtful and well balanced advice.“

Christian Ulbrich, Global CEO

Jones Lang LaSalle

JLL Digital – a comprehensive and implementable strategic assessment

„Enable2grow decisively shaped our understanding of how to become an EMEA wide digital platform company.“

Robert Bonwell, Board Member with IT, Data and Digital responsibilities, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc

  1. Challenge

    Whilst business is going extremely well, how do we create the need and urgency across the organisation to prepare for digital disruption in the future? And among the many activities, which are the key digital initiatives to be pursued?

  2. Process

    • Extensive market and competition analysis – identifying key trends affecting the industry and related SWOT analysis
    • Jointly developing a strategic vision of how JLL could function as a fully digital platform company – identified and operationalised four quick win initial projects:
      • Streamlining and extending existing digital platform along the value chain
      • Preparing EMEA-wide rollout of key digital project in retail
      • Accelerating two digital projects as quick wins in core business lines
    • Developed overall actionable masterplan for a full digital transformation - culture, processes, structure, etc.

  3. Results

    •  Comprehensive and actionable digital strategy masterplan
    • 4 initial projects to operationalise digital change with clear KPIs, teams and actionplan

 

Hellman&Friedman

„Marc has been an excellent CEO, a leader in the German Digital Media and Real Estate industry, and the most trusted of partners. He has a deep understanding of the online classifieds business, but also has acumen more broadly applicable to other industries. Marc´s personal qualities include an upbeat, „can do“ attitude. He is a very effective leader, develops strong talent and instills a culture of openness and innovation.“

Patrick Healy, Deputy CEO Hellman&Friedman, Private Equity Investor in ImmobilienScout24

Talentsconnect

„Marc Stilke as chairman of the board is an important sparring partner for the founders and the management board in our strategic development. He loves to dive into new topics and support a joint decision making afterwards. Our cooperation remains always at eye level.“

Robin Sudermann, CEO and founder 22connect AG

Contact

I am happy to accept your digital challenges. If you tell me your starting point, context and targets, I will look how I can help.


+49 173 54 52 01 6
Gerhard-Rohlfs-Str.15, D-53173 Bonn, Germany