Jakob Carstens

“I had the pleasure to work with Jakob during our time at Funding Circle. Jakob has proven to be a very talented, hard working co-worker with a tremendous eagerness to learn, develop and take upon lots of responsibility. He always has great ideas for the business, and delivers performance in an analytical yet creative way. It was a pleasure working with you Jakob, hopefully are paths cross again in the future!”

“Jakob is an incredibly smart and versatile person who really cares about everything he does. I look forward to working with him again”

“Working with Jakob for about 5 years has been a pleasure across the board. The thing I like the most is his ability to learn, i.e. when things don't go his way, either because of external reasons or because he could have done better himself, he quickly analyses, extracts the learnings and moves on with a positive attitude: typically a distinguishing characteristic for a high performer. In terms of business, in only a few years he has become an allround Head of Marketing (with a lot of strategy/sales and other skills). Finally and arguably most important, Jakob has a sense of humor I have always enjoyed a lot. Thanks Jakob for all those good years!”

“I worked with Jakob at Funding Circle from 2016-2018 where he was responsible for CRM, brand and retail strategy for the CE markets. He is a strong professional and when it comes to solving problems, he is very structured and result driven which contributed much to the success of the company. We worked on a variety of projects together - next to growing the CE business in general. Those included setting up a model and strategy for existing customers, product/UX improvements and go-to-market strategies for new customer segments, especially retail investors. He was also leading the roll-out of rebranding activities across the CE markets. Here, his creative mindset together with his ability to manage projects on a large scale were essential for its success.”

“Jakob is an outstanding professional of our management team - given the strong interaction between the Product team and the CRM department (which he was heading) we have spent many constructive hours discussing user profiles, brainstorming product improvements and analyzing the latest investor tracking data sets. Jakob was a strong contributor to our Salesforce implementation and independently managed the full Salesforce Marketing Cloud integration for further email automation along our Sales funnel. He switched from personally dealing with important customers to strategic issues such as the further development of our retail product with ease, leaving his footprint on a great number of important topics, including the brand development of Funding Circle in Continental Europe. Above all, Jakob is a lot of fun to work with and a great addition to any team!”