Christian Heitmeyer

Christian Heitmeyer is the founder and CEO of brands4friends.de, Germany's biggest shopping-club. After just 16 months, the market leader boasts 1.5 million members in Germany alone. Christian Heitmeyer completed his "Bankdiplom" successfully at the Chamber of Commerce, Frankfurt and at the "Bankakademie, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management".

He started his career as a managing director and CEO of the Goldkrone Gruppe, Offenbach, where he was responsible for business development and strategy. He contributed significantly to the turnaround, internationalization and acquisition of the competitor Le Combi B.A.

Afterwards he became vice-president and COO of the Delsey Group, Paris. There he was in charge of worldwide marketing, sales, product development, sourcing, logistics and branding.brands4friends.de was founded in 2007 in Berlin and is one of the fastest growing e-commerce communities worldwide, with up to 10,000 new members a day. The exclusive, "members only" shopping-club sells original goods from renowned lifestyle and fashion labels at drastically reduced prices.