I\u2019m a father of three girls, an amateur cook and a searcher – I love to try out new things and try to learn a new skill every year. My latest thing is free diving, very cool.<\/p>\n
I spent the first half of my career in business and the second half in the social sector. I loved the results-focus and the instruments of the private sector and the purpose and dedication of the social world. But the two don\u2019t often learn from each other a lot. I created Impacc to use the tools of one world to achieve the goals of the other.<\/p>\n
I think it\u2019s our optimism. We are all impatient optimists – we believe that the world is getting better, and that we have a responsibility to speed up the change because it\u2019s not good enough yet. This impatient optimism is infectious, I think, and it creates momentum.<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t subtract anything, but we\u2019d love to add more world-class technical expertise to the team in new and different functional areas so we can better help our startups grow.<\/p>\n
In a mostly virtual, inter-continental team it\u2019s really important to connect beyond the work stuff. We start every weekly meeting with ten minutes of banter and chit-chat – that really sets the tone for the team. And we meet twice a year in person and spend time together hiking, cooking, sightseeing, whatever. Those are always the highlights of our year.<\/p>\n
We will continue on our growth path and move closer towards our goal of creating a million jobs. We will enter one new country every year across Sub-Saharan Africa. Our basic model won\u2019t change: converting donations into investments so that stellar base-of-pyramid businesses can create lots of green jobs. But we will build an even stronger organisation that helps founders achieve their goals better than anybody else.<\/p>\n
Not really. We hire for passion and train for skills. We look for people with a cool head, a hot heart and strong hands. If people really want to make a difference, they will – no matter their past experience.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m an avid urban farmer, an eager but very untalented guitar player, I like to read Italian fiction and watch senseless American action movies. And my idea of a perfect evening is cooking for a bunch of friends.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a bit embarrassed about this, but it\u2019s actually Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Till ran both for profit companies and a global NGO and has always strived to bridge the gap between the social and the private sector. As global CEO of Welthungerhilfe (a German food- and nutrition-security NGO with 2,500 staff in 40 countries and a budget of 250mio$), he championed innovation and impact. Previously, as Marketing, Sales and Innovation Director for consumer goods company, Procter & Gamble, he built innovation methods and processes to rejuvenate P&G\u2019s global salon portfolio.<\/p>\n
With his wife Carolin, a journalist, they have three daughters and three chicken. Till is an enthusiastic but sadly untalented surfer and avid urban farmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2594,"template":"","categories":[142,64],"class_list":["post-7322","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impacc","category-team"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/7322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impacc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}