Strategic Advisor & Board Member
Niko is a Board Member and Strategic Advisor to mediaforgrowth.
Previous to co-founding German Media Pool, Niko was an executive in the media industry as well as an early pioneer in European venture capital. In media, he had global and European leadership roles at GfK and IBM. He was ITV's first media for equity fund manager and a strategy advisor for RTL. At Upfront Ventures, he was part of the European team in the late 1990s and set up the Munich office. Niko also supports pro-planet initiatives such as the peatland startup "ZukunftMoor". Niko has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and also studied at the Johann-Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt and Brown University in Providence.