As CFO and MD of Contentful, Markus loves data, solving hard problems and building a company that dissects the content management problem and provides for a new way of managing content at enterprise scale. Markus started his career in investment banking with Morgan Stanley and later joined Zalando, where he has built up the UK business, and later took the role of CFO of Zalando's operations entities. Before joining Contentful, he was a VP Finance &  IT at SoundCloud. Markus holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a Diplom-Kaufmann degree from WHU Otto-Beisheim School of Management.