Extraordinary ideas require an extraordinary team. Welcome to MAMA.
MAMA is an interdisciplinary team of successful companies, experienced bankers and internationally recognised scientists. This unique conjunction of very different areas of expertise is a vital prerequisite for assessing the scientific, social and economic dimensions of sustainability on an integrated basis. And ultimately, the prerequisite for taking promising ideas and technological approaches and turning them into truly successful, sustainable products and companies.
The MAMA management team
Paulus Neef
Chairman & CEO
Paulus Neef boasts a long track record in the financially successful development, strategy and marketing, management and divestment of dynamic companies in a diverse range of sectors. He has an excellent network in industry, media and risk capital.
Volker Weber
Chief Sustainability Officer & CFO
Volker Weber looks back on many years of experience in the development and sale of sustainability fund products with banks. As chairman of the Forum für Nachhaltige Geldanlagen e.V. (Forum for Sustainable Investments), he also has expert knowledge of the sector’s entire ecological system.
Nikolas Samios
Head of Corporate Development & COO
Nikolas Samios is a highly experienced expert in the development, funding, restructuring and sale of technology-orientated growth companies and (co-)initiator of numerous investment companies in these areas.
The MAMA investment team
Richard Focken
Richard Focken has over 20 years of experience in the sale, marketing, management, foundation and divestment of a wide range of companies in the sectors of sustainability, information technology and strategy consulting.
Oliver Haeggberg
Oliver Haeggberg has been partner and director of several risk capital entities, including for Deutsche Telekom’s T-Venture, and boasts wide-reaching experience of investment management, including the sale and IPO of numerous companies.
Thomas Notemann
Thomas Notemann is a proven expert in the active hands-on management of start-ups. Especially in the areas of coaching, turnaround strategy, company management, funding and business sales, he has offered invaluable support to numerous companies, and also spent several years as director of an international entity.
Chairman of the MAMA advisory board
Prof. Dr. Carlo Jaeger
Chairman of the advisory board
Dr Carlo Jaeger Chairman of the advisory board Carlo Jaeger is chairman of the European Climate Forum (ECF), professor at the University of Potsdam and Beijing Normal University, and works at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
