Nils A. Breitmar

Product, growth and technology leader. Germany and the United States.

Work, with study alongside

  1. Work and study, together: Bayer

    Industrial Management Trainee.

    Rotated through seven teams, from strategic controlling and supply chain to corporate communications and in-house consulting.

    Country portfolio analysis for a business unit. Honored as the best trainee in North Rhine-Westphalia.

    1. Academia: Maastricht University

      Bachelor's in Econometrics and Operations Research.

      MaRBLe thesis on refugee migration.

    2. Academia: UC Irvine Deep Data Lab

      Research with Matthew Harding on social-network behavior.

      Selected project: a paper on ad auctions.

    3. Academia: Columbia University, New York

      Master's in Management Science & Engineering, focused on pricing analytics and revenue management.

      A joint program of the engineering and business schools.

    4. Academia: Goethe University Frankfurt

      Postgraduate research in quantitative marketing with Bernd Skiera.

      Field experiments in targeting and reward advertising. "Ads with Benefits" won a conference innovation award.

    5. Academia: University of Cambridge

      Part-time master's in AI Ethics and Society.

      Thesis on generative AI in marketing effectiveness.

  3. Work: Hornet

    VP Growth.

    Intern to leadership at Hornet, working from Los Angeles, Cape Town and Asia.

    Grew revenue and users, and owned product and analytics.

  4. Work, ongoing: Enpal

    SVP Product & Technology.

    Joined Enpal as VP Product and led the in-house build of its energy-operations software system.

    Then SVP, driving AI adoption and organizational transformation across the group.