Lars Hinrichs
| Lars Hinrichs | |
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| Born |
December 18, 1976 Germany |
| Occupation | Founder of XING |
Lars Hinrichs (born December 18, 1976, Hamburg, Germany) is a German entrepreneur and founder of XING, a worldwide social networking website dedicated mostly to cultivating business contacts.
Career
In 2003 Hinrichs founded the Open Business Club GmbH, today XING AG, where both business people and students or job seekers manage their contacts. He took XING public in December 2006 and led the company to a profitable business with annual sales of € 35 million and an EBITDA margin of 35%.[1]
On January 15, 2009 he resigned from his function as CEO and joined the board of directors. Later in November 2009 Lars Hinrichs sold his stake in XING to Hubert Burda Media.[2] Accordingly, he gave up his board membership at XING in January 2010.[3] In 2010, he founded HackFwd, a pre-seed venture capital company investing in technical talent across Europe.[4]
Since 2009 Lars Hinrichs is an honorary member of the German Committee of UNICEF.[5]
Awards
In 2007 Lars Hinrichs received the Media Award LeadAward[6] and the German Internet Prize 2004[citation needed] of the Federal Ministry of Economics. In August 2008 he was elected Germany's most important web entrepreneur by the Startups Initiative.[citation needed] Also in 2008, Lars Hinrichs was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.[7]
References
- ↑ "Erfolgreicher mit XING". xing.com. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
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- ↑ Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 (2010-06-08). "XING founder Lars Hinrichs launches HackFwd, a product-oriented pre-seed fund | TechCrunch". Eu.techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
- ↑ "Mitgliederversammlung, Vorstand und Beirat". Unicef.de. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
- ↑ "Lead Award". Leadacademy.de. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
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