Our advisory board

Christian is chairman of the advisory board at Visable since April 2017. He is a digital growth expert with 30 year experience as entrepreneur and manager.He started his career with Procter & Gamble and subsequently worked for McKinsey&Co. 1998 he co-founded Scout24 leading the group from inception to market leadership in online classifieds serving as Scout24-Holding CEO and board member as of 2000. Since 2007 Christian lives his passion for innovation, disruption and growth as founder, investor and board member for digital growth companies. 

Jens Abend is an independent private equity advisor and business consultant and has been a member of the advisory board at Visable since April 2017.Jens Abend began his career at the consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he most recently held the position of partner and managing director. He then changed course and became a board member at Fielmann AG responsible for international business, corporate management and controlling. In 2006, he worked in the international, private equity-funded LR Group where he initially took up the role of CSO prior to becoming CEO soon after. He finally sold the group to a new group of investors in 2012 following a successful restructuring and realignment process. Jens Abend has been self-employed since 2015.

André Perwas is a Partner, a member of the Investment Committee and responsible for the Advanced Services & Software sector at Capvis. He serves on the boards of BSI Software, Visable and Xovis. Prior to joining Capvis, André worked at 3i Group and Accenture. André holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley USA and has a degree in mathematics from the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Armin Grau, member of the management team of Springer subsidiary Bonial, has been a member of the Visable advisory board since November 2019. As an agile leader and results-oriented manager, he has been active in engineering, IT product development and finance for over 20 years. For the online marketplaces Zalando and ImmobilienScout he built agile teams for the development of mobile-, ERP- and web-applications and realized the forecasting and pricing of products using AI/machine learning and linear optimization technologies. 
Armin Grau studied computer science at the University of Würzburg, attended the Sankt Gallen Business School and started his career at PASS IT-Consulting in Aschaffenburg.

 

Kail Shen works with the Investment Team at Capvis. Prior to joining Capvis, Kaili was working for EMERAM Capital Partners and The Boston Consulting Group.

Kaili holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California – Santa Barbara and a Bachelor's degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.