saas.group: Leadership and Team

Co-founders

Tim Schumacher: Co-founder; CEO
Ulrich Essmann: Co-founder; Senior Advisor – European Operations; Co-founded Sedo, the domain marketplace, and ran it as President.
David Khalil: Co-founder; CFO; Co-founded Spark Networks, the online dating group, and PlusDental, a teledentistry company.
Tobias Schlottke: Co-founder; CTO; Founded metrigo, sold to Zalando. Co-founded OMR and alphalist. Hosts the alphalist CTO Podcast.

Product Growth: Product design, analytics, pricing, and user research across the portfolio. Designers and growth managers who turn usage data into roadmap decisions.
AI: One squad, two teams. AI Engineering ships production AI into products and internal systems. AI Operations embeds with a team and rebuilds how it works.
Marketing: SEO and AEO, paid acquisition, partnerships, data, attribution, and content. Specialists and playbooks every company can pull in.
BI and Data: One warehouse fed by every billing system, product database, and ad platform in the group. MRR, churn, and retention calculated the same way for every company, every morning.
DevOps and IT: Cloud accounts, security, uptime monitoring, and devices for every company. Engineers spend their time on product.
Finance: Controlling, accounting, and financial planning for every company in the group. One set of numbers, read the same way across the portfolio.
Legal: Contracts, compliance, and governance across the group. Every company covered, no in-house counsel required.
People: Hiring, onboarding, HR, and culture across the group. Finding great people and keeping them.
M&A: Origination, due diligence, and closing. The first team every founder talks to.