Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant, startup founder and financial investor. Carsten Maschmeyer sits on the jury of “Die Höhle des Löwen.

He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim, where he graduated from high school in 1978. To finance his subsequent medical studies, he worked part-time in the sales department of an investment consulting firm until 1982, when he devoted himself entirely to financial consulting.

Carsten Maschmeyer: “There are no good companies. There are only good entrepreneurs.”

Carsten Maschmeyer Speaking topics

• Startups: An (entrepreneurial-) life around the clock.
• Carsten Maschmeyer: Selfmade
• Me, myself and AI – How do we shape the future of our jobs between algorithms and human intelligence?

In 1988, he founded the financial group AWD, which was successfully listed on the stock exchange in 2000 and rose to the M-DAX, as well as expanding into eleven countries. In 2007, Carsten Maschmeyer sold all his shares in the company to Swiss Life, Switzerland’s largest life insurer.

Today, he advises decision-makers on sales strategies for numerous companies. All his investment activities are bundled under the strategic umbrella of the Maschmeyer Group. From early-stage financing, growth financing as well as investments in listed companies, he focuses on future industries and growth markets.

Carsten Maschmeyer shares his knowledge and his recipes for success as a speaker in lecture halls, at conferences and at congresses.

In addition, he supports numerous children’s aid projects, is an honorary senator of Leibniz University in Hanover and a freelance lecturer at the International School of Management in Munich.

Motivated by his personal interest in psychology and neurology, he promotes the “Neurological Learning” project at the University of Hildesheim and has co-founded the “Neurobionic” International Foundation. Together with the Max Plank head, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Holsboer, he founded the company HMNC in Munich, which specializes in curing depression and brain disease.

With his book “Selfmade – erfolgreich eben” Carsten Maschmeyer became a best-selling author and is a very popular speaker on the subject of success.

He is the father of two sons and is married to the actress Veronica Ferres.