Johannes Schaback

Schaback has extensive experience in software development, e-commerce, consumer-oriented product design, and machine learning, from a career spent building some of the European trailblazers in online commerce services. In addition to his extensive tech and innovation expertise, Schaback has experience as an angel investor, having invested in a mix of German and European companies over the last ten years.

Schaback joined Rocket Internet in 2007 as a founder in residence and software engineer, contributing to online services such as Zalando, eDarling and Toptarif. In 2009, Schaback co-founded Visual Meta, an online company that runs shopping platforms such as LadenZeile.de and ShopAlike in 13 countries and which was sold to Axel Springer in 2011. Schaback then joined home24 as Chief Technology Officer and member of the management board in April 2018 where he was responsible for the entire technical e-commerce, SAP, data and infrastructure operations and development, in addition to People & Organisation from April 2019 onwards.