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Timo Sandritter (born 22 March 1977) is the Founder & President of RippleWorx, a performance analyzing and accelerating platform. He is a German born American Tech Entrepreneur. After spending his formative years in Germany he moved to the United States in the late 90s and made it his permanent home.

Early Life
In his younger years Timo was a German champion in full contact Kick Boxing, briefly a professional soccer player, and a third degree black belt in Karate. (NOTE: EXPAND A BIT MORE ON THE EARLY LIFE)

Education
Sandritter is known for his interest in learning and academia and for “collecting degrees.” His educational background spans from a law degree, multiple master degrees to doctoral degrees in both Education and Business Administration. Additionally, he graduated from the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was a senior fellow at Harvard University’s graduate School. (NOTE: LIST ALL SCHOOLS HE GRADUATED FROM)

Early Career


Timo is an expert in building and running companies and was the Executive Partner of Cygnus Strategy Group, a management consulting firm which he helped to found in 2012. In that position, he utilized his experience with both multinational corporations and start- ups to deliver a holistic approach to business improvement and transformation. Timo also helped build Digium, a communications technology company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of communications hardware and telephony software. At Digium Timo served as Chief People Officer.

Over his past 15 years, Timo Sandritter was intricate in winning multiple Best Places to Work awards, which contributed to his passion to help build these companies. More recently Timo served as Chief Operations Officer of Haufe, an innovative enterprise human resource and talent management software company. In that role, Timo was responsible for the global firm’s strategic direction and its internal capabilities; including talent management, legal, operations, finance, and corporate development.

He has been recognized by multiple Boards of Directors and C-Level executives for successfully building and retaining high-performance teams across multiple industries and driving the internal capabilities of the organizations. Dr. Sandritter was named both “Young Professional of the Year” and “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2008 and 2010. He is also attributed for creating an accelerator for his personal friend, Laurie DeJong, CEO of LDJ Productions, a multi-million-dollar event management, creative and production company based in New York City.

Sandritter has a passion for building up the most important part of every company - its people. This includes a single digit workforce, to over 300 employees at Digium, and various other early start up modes at Haufe, LDJ Productions, and RippleWorx.

Present Career
Timo Sandritter currently serves as President of RippleWorx, a technology focused software program that provides teams with a performance accelerator platform. He works with professional sports teams, the US military, various police forces and municipalities, and Enterprise companies such as Warner Media Studios.

Sandritter is also a frequent speaker at conferences and Universities including Georgia Technology Institute and Stanford University. His topics of expertise include strategy, innovation, and people practice. He is known for his disruptive nature.

Personal Life


Timo and his wife Angie Sandritter ... (NOTE: EXPAND)