Meet the gridscale team

Tobias has been part of the team since the end of 2014 and is responsible gridscale’s figures as our CFO. His love to figures and finance are the common theme of his career – from his apprenticeship as a bank clerk to his diploma in business administration and tax consultancy. His many years of professional experience in tax consultancy and a three-year trip to the commercial audit at KPMG form the solid foundation of his business.

Alex joined the team early 2017 and supports the marketing department. But the time at gridscale is so fast that Alex has decided to add exceptional study subjects. After completing his degree in the subject “Mineral Resources Engineering” at the RWTH Aachen he is now part of the „European Mining, Minerals und Environmental Program“

Henrik is gridscale’s CEO. In this function, he is primarily responsible for the strategic development of gridscale, as well as important partnerships. Henrik has experience of 15 years in the hosting industry. In his last role, he took charge of the international realignment of the dedicated server business of one Europe’s largest hosting companies.

As designer, Daniel is responsible for the visual appearance of gridscale, which – in addition to the entire communication – also affects the interface of the panel. Together with Carsten and Marc, he has already realized numerous online projects before working with gridscale. After a training in repography, he discovered his passion for the digital media early on during his studies of visual communication at the Fachhochschule Aachen.

Frank is responsible for sales and strategic partnerships at gridscale. For more than 30 years, Frank has been at home in the telecommunications-, hosting- and cloud- industries. As a passionate expert, he has been consulting in IT infrastructure projects for years. Frank signs responsible for some of the largest IT infrastructure setups in Europe. Prior to gridscale, Frank has worked at europe's no. 2 managed hosting provider and has accompanied numerous projects there.

With his expertise in the field of web front-end, Marc is responsible for all gridscale web applications. He joined gridscale’s founding team in 2015 with his brother Carsten. In 2004 the brothers established the Dittmann Media GmbH. The know-how and the experience gained from his computer science studies and the many highly complex projects of the past years make him a leading expert in the field of web front-end.

Nicola is responsible for marketing and, in close collaboration with the founders, contributes above all to increase the brand recognition level internationally. In addition to her successfully completed MBA from the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, she brings along over 10 years of know-how and experience across all important business areas. She could not only prove her organizational and leadership strengths in her previous positions at IBM Germany and State Street Bank – she was also the founder and managing director of her own company, the Kölner Schatztüte.

Torsten is responsible for everything around the data center and operations. He is the guy who keeps our systems running, our network with low latency and takes care of our partners and customers with his awesome team.

Torsten has been working for more than 20 years with Unix and Linux server systems and gained a lot of expertise within the hosting industry. Back in 2005 he founded his first web hosting provider for shared web hosting services. In his previous role he was responsible for the International Network and Systems Department with a competitor.

Marie is responsible for the website and all the visual communication of gridscale. She has done her apprenticeship at a large german hosting company, where she also worked together with Marc, Carsten and Henrik. Eventually they got her on board at gridscale.

As our CPO, Michael is the central point of contact for our products that turn gridscale into what it is today – from the idea and implementation to the maintenance of existing products. For more than 12 years in the hosting industry, he has always been able to implement ideas with the attitude of “yes, you can””, where others only saw a “it does not work” and “we have always done it this way”.

Ricarda is responsible for online marketing at gridscale. She's looking after everything in the digital marketing world with focus on performance marketing and social media.
Before she even finished her bachelor degree in 'International Management - Marketing & Multimedia', Ricarda has already moved to Australia. During that time she gained in-depth experience in all fields of digital marketing. Since June 2017 she's living in Cologne and rocking gridscale's marketing team.

Carsten is responsible for our web-backend development team and takes care of a smooth communication between all components. He joined the gridscale’s founder team in 2015 together with his brother Marc. Prior to his studies in computer sciences, he and Marc established the Dittmann Media GmbH in 2004. He has been able to realize his love for modern web technologies in many exciting projects.

William is the newbie! He actively supports the marketing team in all upcoming tasks, which includes the marketing analysis, WordPress optimisation and more. From October on he's starting his Master course in Productdesign and process development.

Martin is the lead developer of gridscale and responsible for the choice of software components and the design of the intelligent system architecture. He got to know gridscale through long-term contact with the founders, with whom he has already worked successfully in the past.

Before Martin switched into business world, he worked in the academic field for several years, working on the development of distributed systems, high-performance graph algorithms and databases. Martin is also extremely versatile outside the field of computer science, as his studies of the secondary subjects of physics and psychology show.