Our Partners are a highly experienced team of strategy, corporate finance and private equity professionals around our founder, Arndt Rautenberg. As well as driving the overall business, they also take an active role in each of our projects – usually working in teams of two.
Arndt is the founder and Managing Partner of Rautenberg & Company. He has extensive experience in advising financial investors and their portfolio companies as well as corporations in all aspects of transactions, ranging from corporate finance and M&A to commercial and strategic advisory services. His special sector expertise is in Tech, Media and Telecom, albeit he has also advised many transactions in other verticals.
After completing his studies of business administration at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and at Georgetown University, he started his professional career in 1994 at Boston Consulting Group. In 2000, he and two partners founded a technology advisory and investment firm which they later successfully sold to Sapient, a NASDAQ-listed technology corporation based in Cambridge, USA. After several years as an executive board member of Sapient and Head of Europe, Arndt was appointed Chief Strategy Officer of Deutsche Telekom, where he was responsible for both the group’s strategy development as well as the portfolio management.
Since leaving in 2008, Arndt has focused on advising financial sponsors and strategic investors in all phases of a transaction and grown Rautenberg & Company into the leading German integrated strategy and corporate finance boutique.
Philipp is a Managing Partner of Rautenberg & Company and works out of our Frankfurt office. For more than 20 years, he has advised family-owned companies and their shareholders, private equity houses, entrepreneurs and managers on M&A transactions and financing. His major focus is on transactions in the industrial sector such as machinery & equipment and industrial goods as well as in consumer goods/retail.
Philipp holds a graduate degree in economics from the University of Bonn. Alongside his studies in economics, he also studied political and historical science. As an advisor to principals, Philipp is an entrepreneur himself; for more than 12 years, he was shareholder and Managing Partner of C H Reynolds Corporate Finance AG, which he established with his co-founders in the German M&A market. Earlier positions in his career include Doertenbach & Co. in Frankfurt, Ernst & Young in Berlin. Philipp co-founded the M&A specialised transaction boutique Bassewitz & Hochberg in Frankfurt who merged with us in 2018.
Gero is a Managing Partner in our Düsseldorf office. He has vast expertise in developing and executing growth-oriented value creation initiatives as well as strategic transformations for both smaller companies (including start-ups) and larger corporations.
Gero studied engineering and business administration at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Queen’s University (Canada) and the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand). In addition, he holds an MBA with distinction from Kellogg School of Management (USA).
Gero started his professional career as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, mainly advising clients from the telecoms, media, high-tech and digital industries. He then joined Nokia Venture Organization to successfully grow a mobile internet venture, before ramping up the newly created Nokia Consumer Data & Analytics function. After co-founding Numerus Capital, a privately held quantitative hedge fund, he joined us in 2015. Today, he predominantly advises technology clients on strategic and financing topics as well as in transactions.
Mirko is Senior Partner in our Frankfurt office and working from Munich
With more than 20 years of industry and consulting experience, Mirko has a proven track record of advising investors and corporate clients on a wide range of technology and digital infrastructure topics across both sell-side and buy-side processes.
Mirko covers a wide range of topics – from digital infrastructure such as fibre and data centers to various technology topics such as IT and business services, IT security, IoT and various software niches. In addition, he has played a key role in strategy and value creation projects and has advised portfolio companies of top private equity firms as well as prominent clients from the technology, media and telecommunications sectors in transformation programs.
Following his studies of law at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Mirko started his career at an internet venture in the entertainment space and founded his own consulting company to support internet and entertainment start-ups. He later joined ProSieben Sat.1 as Senior Business Development Manager, where he was instrumental in expanding the group's entertainment partnerships. He co-founded and managed an investment company dedicated to media and technology projects and later moved into consulting, gaining valuable experience with renowned consulting firms such as Monitor Deloitte.
His latest position was Partner and Managing Director at Altman Solon in Munich, where he was instrumental in driving the firm’s growth in the TMT space.
Boris is a Partner and works out of our Frankfurt office.
He focuses on deal execution, particularly commercial due diligences including the development of financial/operating models and business plans, as well as value creation assignments such as strategy development, PMI and exit preparation.
Boris joined us in 2014 after his MBA at IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), where he graduated on the Dean’s List of Honours. He started his professional career in 2007 with Arthur D. Little, where he worked in the operations and strategy practices across diverse industries. Boris holds degrees in Computer Science and Operations Management from ESB Reutlingen and ESC Lille.
Eike is Partner and works out of our Düsseldorf office.
He is an experienced strategist, specialising in growth scenarios and their implementation. His second focus is on deal execution and facilitation on the buy- and sell-side, including the preparation of commercial due diligences. Eike is our Sector Head for Media & Entertainment, has successfully operated across our further verticals and especially made a name for himself in the Digital Infrastructure space.
Eike joined us back in 2014, bringing professional experience from different positions in venture capital, strategy and transaction advisory. He holds both M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Business Administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, and benefits from years of international experience gathered in China, Ireland, Japan, Spain and the UK.
