Markus Fost, MBA, is an expert in e-commerce, online business models and digital transformation with broad experience in the fields of strategy, organisation, corporate finance and operative restructuring.

His project themes range from development to implementation of e-commerce strategies for brand manufacturers and trade.

His clients include multi-national concerns and medium sized enterprises in a wide spectrum of fields: automotive, construction, fashion, industry and consumer goods, trade and media.

Markus Fost is founder and director of strategy consultants FOSTEC & Company GmbH specialising on digitalisation and the share company FOSTEC Ventures GmbH. He is an Independent Partner in the strategy consultancy Stern Stewart & Co. GmbH, and visiting lecturer in the specialism of e-commerce and the author of various specialist books for Springer Gabler publications amongst others.

As a top specialist and leading consultant to industry, brands and trade in constructing and implementing trade strategies in the market-place Amazon and founding member and on the advisory board of The Global Marketplace Group GmbH, he was awarded the Amazon.de Vendor Award in 2009.

After his traineeship as an industrial business management assistant, he studied Economic Science and was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Nürtingen and an MBA in Finance & Management from the BW Cooperative State University. Markus Fost has been working in consultancy since 2009.

Niels Haußmann, Dipl. Business Economist (FH), is an expert in Sales, Marketing, HR and Logistics Specialising in E-Commerce.

He has many years of experience as a Sales Manager and is responsible for directing international projects in the fields of industry, mechanical engineering, consumer goods and trade and medical technology. He has assisted SMEs and family businesses and successfully supported the establishment of a start-up of FOSTEC Ventures GmbH

The focus area of his project responsibility is the systematic implementation of e-commerce strategies through appropriate programmes of action. Along with the construction of sales planning and controlling, in one of his recent projects Mr Haußmann led international Key account Management and at the same time carried out extensive optimisation of Fulfillment Processes.

Mr Haußmann has been an Executive Management Consultant of FOSTEC VENTURES since 2017.