Members of the board

Dr. Kunz co-founded tyntec and designed its business architecture. Today he serves as Chairman of the Board.

Ralph has more than 15 years of experience in top-level management, strategy consulting, and investment in the IT, media and telecom industries. He worked with the Boston Consulting Group before running a Neue Markt-listed technology holding company. Subsequently, he was in charge of building and co-heading the venture capital branch of Bertelsmann AG. Most recently he held senior executive positions within Nokia Corporation, specifically as VP Business Development and General Manager of Nokia’s Navigation and Search business. He is Managing Partner of Catagonia Capital (www.catagonia.com), a Berlin-based investment company which is involved in tyntec.

Ralph holds a PhD in physics and a Masters in economic policy from the Technical University of Berlin/University of Chicago.

Claudio Siniscalco serves as Principal of Direct Investments at HarbourVest Partners and joined tyntec’s Board upon HarbourVest’s investment in June 2008.

Claudio has more than 13 years of experience in private equity investing and finance. At HarbourVest, Claudio focuses on originating, evaluating, and executing direct investments in growth equity, mezzanine and buyout transactions, primarily in Europe. He currently serves as a board member of Panda Security, Polynt and tyntec.

Claudio received a BA in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Erkan Kilicaslan is a Partner at Iris Capital and responsible for international investments in the media, entertainment, communications and IT sector. He joined tyntec’s board upon Iris’ investment in December 2010.

Erkan has solid venture capital experience, joining Iris Capital in 2005 from TecVenture Partners, and has been responsible for investments, M&A, strategic positioning and technology growth management in a range of related sector companies. Previously he has worked for Technologieholding VC (now 3i Group) as an Investment Manager as well as at McKinsey & Company. He is also currently on the board at Human Inference, Clear2Pay and 1-2-3.TV.

Erkan has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany, studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique et de Radioélectricité de Bordeaux (ENSERB) and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School (Boston).