Mark Neufurth

Background

About Mark Neufurth

Mark Neufurth began his internet career at 1 & 1 Internet, one of GSA regions leading internet access providers and one of the inventors of commercialized webhosting. He worked there as Assistant to CEO doing market and competitor research and analysis, developing business strategies and preparing M & As. 2005 he switched over to 1 & 1's consumer product management. As Product Manager he was responsible for lifecycle management of mobile internet access products. In 2007 he joined 1 & 1's project management unit. As Senior Project Manager and Program Manager he led and supervised projects such as the introduction of groundbreaking new hosting products '1 & 1 My Website' or '1 & 1 Do-it-yourself'. 2010 he eventually came over to Gameforge, one of the world's leading online gaming companies, to engage in Business Development and tracking competitors, new gaming and internet technologies and to procure for the necessary market and business intelligence. Years ago he had been exploring those cute, hidden monetization potentials in Professional Social Networking @XING in Germany. For a couple of years, product marketing in Cloud B2B market has been keeping him busy - always looking for the right USPs and differentiators of cloud products and services. Not to forget that he has taken up the endeavour, as PR manager, to forge apt media relations and, as Content Marketing Manager, keep customers and prospects in spending mood and feed them with high-quality content. Specialties:* Strong business acumen * Extensive C-level reporting experience * Strategic thinker * Awesome in analysing markets and technologies * Talented writer of SEO-digestible content * Great in doing edgy product messaging * Capable in detecting the edge in nearly anything Right now, Mark, as Lead Strategist, has taken over the responsibility to find swift n' smart ways through the dense scrub of markets, competition and technological trends shaping the future of both hosting and cloud computing.