At gertrud we are convinced that boards of directors, supervisory boards and executives in general currently waste too much time organizing and conducting their meetings. The point is to make decisions as efficiently as possible and to focus on adding value to the business. That is why we built gertrud.
We named our company gertrud, in reference to the grandmother of two of our founders that shared the name. Gertrud stands for a strong woman that was the center of their families and held all the threads together. She was the CEO of our family! The products of gertrud take exactly this role in modern executive collaboration.
gertrud was founded 2019 in the CEO office of Axel Springer, born out of an internal need. Now we accompany executive boards, advisory boards, supervisory boards and other executives and assistants to organize, plan and execute their meetings. We empower them to live the new way of work.
The process of organizing and running board meetings is crucial to a company’s success. Since the entire board, including its top management, is involved, poor execution can be costly.
The process demands precision because otherwise it leads to inadequate results on the top floor. The task also requires empathy because many different employees are involved, and board decisions have a strong impact on both the culture at the company and the individuals who work there.
Every topic that comes up in an organization of thousands, or tens of thousands, of employees must be prioritized. On top of it, each board meeting is a showcase for top management, their chance to lead their organization by example: this is the board’s way of work
The process of organizing and running board meetings is crucial to a company’s success. Since the entire board, including its top management, is involved, poor execution can be costly. The process demands precision because otherwise it leads to inadequate results on the top floor. The task also requires empathy because many different employees are involved, and board decisions have a strong impact on both the culture at the company and the individuals who work there.
Nils
MD & Co-Founder
Daniel
MS365 Architecture
Guilherme
Development
Kathrin
Accounting
Lisa
Customer Success
Sven
MD & Co-Founder
Jannik
Development
Michel
DevOps & Infrastructure
Dr. Boris Häfele
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Whether you work from our Hamburg office, directly on the world famous Reeperbahn or completely remote is for you to decide. We are a remote company and live it - whether from a van in Greece, a sailboat in Turkey or a finca in the Canary Islands. Even though we work remotely most of the time, we invest considerable time and money to regularly meet in person and spend social as well as work time together.