Curriculum Vitae
Marcellus Johannes Gau
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Contact Information |
Telephone:
+49 40
50 69 50 85 |
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Address |
Große
Brunnenstraße 7 |
Career
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05/2007
– today |
Managing Director and CFO of blackbeltmonkey
GBR. Responsible
for finance, project management, account direction, business development, and
strategy. The business realised an annual revenue of EUR 690,000.
Blackbeltmonkey has three managing partners, three full-time employees and
works is working together with a pool of 20+ freelance partners. Blackbeltmonkey’s clients are: Adidas, the Page
Magazine, Peek und Cloppenburg, Haspa, HDI, Sinner
Schrader, Arthur Schlovsky, Frauennotruf, stern.de.
Successfully delivered projects with very high international involvement,
e.g. the Adidas Sign for Your Club campaign roll out in 30 countries
worldwide. |
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11/2005
– 08/2007 |
Project Lead and Business Development at Stern.de. Team lead of four project
staff and several freelancers. My area of responsibility comprised project
management, business development, content and concept development, feasibility
analyses and the development of commercial models. In Detail: Project lead in
online community development, concept development for an e-commerce extension
of the stern.de photography community, conceptual specification of the user
generated content section. During my time with stern.de
I gained extensive experiences in leading and motivating interdisciplinary
teams (project management, senior management, print marketer, online
marketer, marketing management, creatives). |
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03/2003
- 11/2005 |
Project Lead for the Foundation of the The HMS is organised as a
public private partnership for the professions journalist, producer, director
and other media-related occupations. It is promoted by leading enterprises of
the German media economy. I took responsibility for the
entire project management as well as the inception of the HMS’s Department of
Information Technology and Media Technology. I was responsible for three
staff. Taking a lead position in the creation of the HMS was one of the most
exciting challenges in my career. In total, about one dozen stakeholder
groups needed to be steered. The project plan included 800 tasks from the
design of the academic curriculum up to the integration of a television
broadcasting station. |
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04/2001
– 03/2003 |
Freelance Media Consultant.
My focus areas were project management, concept development and media
consulting. I managed online projects for the |
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01/2000
- 03/2001 |
Strategic Concept Developer at Kabel
New Media. My clients were a BMW, MINI
and Nokia. From 09/2000 on I had the team lead of four concept developers and
was the lead concept developer of the |
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10/1998
- 01/2000 |
Marketing Coordinator at Info AG. Info AG is a Hamburg-based
enterprise for IT services and IT consulting. Initially a trainee I took over
the coordination of marketing in a subsidiary company. |
Education
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11/2005 |
Master
of Business Administration (MBA) in
Media Management at the Master Thesis: "The
Future of German Radio Broadcasting Stations in view of Digitalisation"
with Warner Music Research project: "Music
Television – the development from a music clip player to an entertainment
broadcasting station for young people", an analysis of MTV formats and
the change of the broadcasting station’s profile |
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01/1998 |
Diplomingenieur der Elektrotechnik
(Master of Electrical Engineering)
at Major:
Telecommunications (1.0 High Distinction), Semiconductor Technology (1.3 High
Distinction) Scholarship
to write my master thesis at Curtin University of Technology for the
Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, |
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08/1989
– 10/1990 |
Civilian service at the German Red Cross where I took care for elderly people in a
residential home. |
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06/1989 |
Abitur (diploma
from
German
secondary
school
qualifying
for
university
admission
or matriculation),
Friedrich-Harkort-School, Herdecke |
International Experience
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07/2004
– 10/2004 |
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06/1997
- 05/1998 |
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09/1997
- 03/1998 |
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06/1996
- 08/1996 |
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09/1993
- 08/1994 |
WDR (West
German Broadcasting Station):
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Personal
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Name |
Marcellus Johannes Gau
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Date /Place of Birth |
7th July 1969 /
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Citizenship |
German/European Community
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Marital Status |
In a relationship, one child
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Languages |
English (business level); Spanish
(conversational); French, Italian, Portuguese (all basic knowledge)
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Software Skills |
Word, Excel, Access, MS-Project,
Visio and PowerPoint
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Personal Interests |
Hobbies: Music, travelling, languages, football, inline hockey,
Italian vintage cars. Freelance journalism (NDR, GEO, Die Tageszeitung
und Mercedes-Benz); Musician in bands (different styles; Guitar, Bass,
Keyboards); Recording Studio (music recordings, corporate videos) |