Summary
My name is Markus and I am an internet entrepreneur who has successfully transposed and adapted and developed business ideas for the internet and new tecnologies.
Currently I am founder and advisor of Tuugo, www.tuugo.com, an international search engine for companies, services and products. With serving 10 million of unique visitors per month we are one of the largest in the industry.
Previous to that, until the year 2012 I was SEO and Innovation leader and avisor of OLX, Inc. OLX is the next generation of free online classifieds and auctions providing a more local service on a global level. I was also Advisor of Drainware Systems S.L., a content filter and security firm located in Madrid, Spain.
Prior to entering in OLX, I was the Founder & CEO New IPs S.L.. New IPs is the #3 worldwide leader in audience in the sector of online classifieds, right beyond Craigslist and Ebay Classifieds with 45 million unique visitors a month.
Until founding New IPs I worked during my studies of Electrical Engineering and Information Tecnology in the Research Center of DaimerlerChrysler in Ulm, Germany, on new methods for high speed datatransfer in vehicles.
I hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Applied Science of Ulm and a MSc. in Information Tecnology from the University of Applied Sciences of Mannheim.
I speak fluently german, english and spanish.
I also understand french, portugues and italian.
Specialties
SEO, Product Innovation, Business Development, eCommerce, Strategy
Experience
CEO and Founder of Tuugo, www.tuugo.com
De financiacion privada; Sector de Internet
2012 – now
Tuugo is a leading business and product search engine with more than 10 million unique visitors per month. The company is based in Ucraine and Uruguay.
SEO and Innovation, OLX Inc.
De financiacion privada; Sector de Internet
2008 – 2012 (4 anos)
OLX Inc. today is one of the leading free global classfied companies.
With around 130 million visitors a month it drives more traffic in audience than sites like twitter. The biggest portion of it comes from SEO.
Sector de Internet
2004 – 2008 (4 anos)
NewIPs S.L. is an online media group with a wide spectrum of free Classified websites like
www.cittys.com, www.campusanuncios.com, www.coches-motos.com
and others like freehosting services, webguide, videoportal etc.
In 2008 the network was listed as # 3 worldwide leader in classfieds on audience on Nielsen Ratings and Comscore, right below Craigslist and Ebay Classifieds section.
At its hight the group received more than 30 million visitors a month, mostly from search engines like Google and Yahoo.
The company today is closed after a fusion with OLX Inc.
Empresa publica; XETRA; Sector de Automotriz
2001 – 2003 (2 anos)
Investigation of EMC behaviour or Car cable tree in order to use for high data transfer
Empresa publica; EXPO; Sector de Ingenieria industrial o mecanica
2000 – 2001 (1 ano)
Reverse Engenieering of failure behaviour onf electrical devices
Education
Always fishing for the next big thing
Markus J. Sander
