Christoph Tontsch

Christoph Tontsch has extensive experience in the retail, technology, and SaaS industries. Starting in 2008, they worked as a Team Lead Sales at Saturn Hamburg, the largest consumer electronics store in the world. During this time, they were responsible for all offline music and movie sales at the POS, while also completing a dual course of study in International Retail Management. In 2014, they took on the role of Marketing & POS Manager at JUKE International, a Berlin-based music SaaS technology startup. Christoph was responsible for all offline marketing related activities and implemented the JUKE card (prepaid music streaming card) in all retail stores of the Media-Saturn group in Europe. Later that year, they became the Senior Channel Partnerships Manager at iZettle, a fast growing Swedish payment technology startup, where they were responsible for channel sales and strategic partnerships. In 2015, they took on the role of Head of Business Development at Inventorum, a Berlin-based SaaS startup and market leader for retail POS software in the DACH region. In 2019, they became the Head of Business Development at Five Elephant and the Project Management at Inventorum. Finally, in 2020, they took on the role of Director of Partnerships // Head of Office Berlin at Shore, a Munich-based B2B SaaS scale-up with additional offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. In this role, they lead the overall partnerships strategy and works with the likes of Jimdo, ePages, Weebly, L'Oréal, Wild Beauty, Wella, La Biosthétique, Apple, Swisscom, Sage, DATEV and PartnerStack.

Christoph Tontsch received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in International Retail Management from Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt in 2012. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor Professional (CCI) of Trade and Commerce in Sales & Marketing from AKAD University between 2005 and 2007. Christoph also obtained a Foreign Correspondence Clerk degree in English & French from the Foreign Language Institute Ingolstadt between 2000 and 2002.