Former executive chairman and investor of Last.fm, Stefan Glänzer is also actively involved as founder and CEO of myblog.de, the largest blogging community in Germany.

Stefan is a serial entrepreneur: in 1998 he founded ricardo.de, Germany’s largest online-auction company, which he took to an IPO at Neuer Markt in 1999. The company became a member of the Nemax50 at the end of 1999 and sold to QXLricardo in 2000.

Since completing his university studies, he has founded several companies in the media space: an advertising company (1991), a book publishing company (companions.de, 1993), a TV production company (companionstv.de, 1994) and Germany’s first print magazine about the internet (“CU”, 1996).

Stefan is an active angel investor (currently 15 plus investments); he is teaching a course on entrepreneurship at the WHU University. He has won several awards, including the German Multimedia Award in 1999 and the Web-Leadaward in 2007.

Stefan graduated from the University of Hamburg with a PhD in business economics and was a professional DJ for 15 years.