Jens Grudno is founder and CEO of assistr, where he works on significantly improving the elderly care environment through IoT technology. Before that he helped start businesses with a strictly lean, low-cost mentality. He supported to get a luxury watch e-commerce company off the ground and worked as a business development expert for Rocket Internet in Berlin.

Prior to that he was active in finance, most recently as a Portfolio Manager at Assenagon Asset Management in Munich, where he managed a concentrated small cap portfolio applying Value Investing principles. Mr. Grudno holds a Diploma in Technology and Management-oriented Business Administration from the Technical University of Munich. He passed Level 3 of the CFA Program.