With experience in the communications industry, Mr. Schuster will focus on technology investments in the TVM Capital portfolio. He has a strong background in finance and mergers and acquisitions. As the Chief Financial Officer of publicly traded Cycos AG (YOS.DE), Mr. Schuster successfully managed a corporate turnaround followed by an international expansion of business operations through his management of finances, controlling, investor relations, human resources, information technology, and quality management.
Prior to his tenure at Cycos, Steffen was an investment partner at I+C Mustang Funds for Europe and Israel, a part of Siemens Venture Capital GmbH. After several successful years with the Siemens Network Division in various positions in international M&A and controlling of large information technology service projects in Asia and Africa he co-founded the Mustang Ventures fund, where he was MD Finance and investment partner, involved in investments and exits such as Efficient Networks, Extreme Networks, Sycamore Networks, Openwave, Com21, RADVision, Alvarion and Globespan/Virata (all IPOs) and investments and exits such as Blue Pumpkin, SignalSoft and LightLogic (all trade sales). In this role he also very successfully led investments in Cycos (IPO) and Followap (trade sale).
Steffen Schuster holds a Master of Economics (Dipl.-Kfm.) of the University of Saarbrücken.
