Jonas Pauly

Jonas Pauly has a diverse work experience spanning multiple industries and roles. Jonas currently serves as the Director of Operations at retraced, where they are responsible for building a platform that manages sustainability information for the fashion industry. Jonas oversees tasks such as certificate management and data tracing.

Prior to this, Jonas was a Board Member at Direct-C Limited from October 2022 to April 2023. Jonas also worked at Henkel, initially as an Investment Analyst from March 2018 to July 2021, and later as a Senior Investment Manager at Henkel Tech Ventures from July 2021 to April 2023.

Jonas was also actively involved with retraced as an Advisor from October 2019 to November 2022. Before that, they worked as a Startup Mentor, Facilitator, Accelerator, and Ecosystem Builder as a freelancer, helping start-ups and corporations develop new concepts and products.

Additionally, they founded and served as the Managing Director of INAM - Innovation Network for Advanced Materials from June 2016 to January 2018. In this role, they built a collaborative ecosystem for entrepreneurs, companies, and researchers to develop and market high-tech products.

Jonas has also held positions as the Managing Director of HARDWARE.co at hardware.co from March 2014 to May 2015 and as a Team Leader at mr. net group GmbH & Co. KG in a company consultancy project from May 2013 to July 2013. Jonas also interned at Brotliebling UG in 2013 and worked on a company consultancy project at Hydrogen Group from September 2011 to December 2011.

Jonas Pauly completed their Bachelor of Arts in Business Psychology from Europa Hochschule Fresenius between 2007 and 2010. Later, they pursued their Master of Science in Master of European Business at ESCP Business School from 2011 to 2014.