Achim Weiss has more than 25 years of experience in the Internet industry. As CEO of IONOS, he is responsible for the Group’s overall strategy and product development. Achim Weiss…
Achim Weiss has more than 25 years of experience in the Internet industry. As CEO of IONOS, he is responsible for the Group’s overall strategy and product development. Achim Weiss is an expert in the field of massive scalable internet infrastructures. In 1995, he co-founded Schlund+Partner, the German web hosting pioneer based in Karlsruhe, Germany, which was acquired by 1&1 in 1998.
From 1998 to 2008, he worked as Chief Technology Officer at 1&1 Internet AG, during which time he developed, among others, the first web hosting platform for the fast-growing mass market and was responsible for the construction of three data centers in Germany and the United States.
In 2010, Achim Weiss founded ProfitBricks in Berlin, the first German company focusing on cloud infrastructure (IaaS). Following the merger of ProfitBricks into 1&1 IONOS in 2018, Achim returned to the management board, and was appointed CEO of IONOS in October 2018.
Chief Financial Officer
Britta Schmidt
Britta Schmidt has been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at IONOS since July 2021. As well as leading on finance, she’s responsible for People Services. She has over 15 years’…
Britta Schmidt has been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at IONOS since July 2021. As well as leading on finance, she’s responsible for People Services. She has over 15 years’ experience in finance and investor relations. She started her financial career at Siemens Enterprise Communications (now Atos) in 2007.
From 2010 onwards Britta worked across many aspects of finance for Scout24, managing the implementation of the initial public offering (IPO) in 2015 and many transformational projects. As CFO at AutoScout24 from 2020 to 2021, she presided over the spin-off of AutoScout24 from the Scout24 group and the creation of an independent brand and organization.