Welcome to my online presence

My name is Nikolai Roth and I currently live in Hamburg. This is an overview of my personal skills and of what I have done so far.

I am currently working as the CEO of Carmio a price comparison website for carparts. I founded the company together with my partner Cord-Christian Nitzsche.

By comparing dozens of shops and millions of carparts Carmio enables savings of more than 70 percent, showing always the best price and delivery terms for the searched product. In this way Carmio simplifies the online-shopping experience of carparts for end consumers and garages.

Before I worked as a freelancer in the area of online marketing, business development and sales. Especially in search engine marketing I got many jobs. Besides I support a few young start-ups as some sort of business angel.

Until April 2009 I worked with Zweitgeist GmbH in Hamburg and its product weblin. As VP Sales I was responsible for the worldwide sales and business development activities. I really liked this highly liable job.

Before Zweitgeist I worked for arvato mobile GmbH. arvato mobile has its roots in the start-up handy.de, which was founded in 1999 and bought by Bertelsmann in 2001. The worldwide acting company Bertelsmann changed the name from handy.de into arvato mobile and integrated it in the arvato group.

I joined handy.de in Sept. 2000 and quit in 2005 as the head of music. I took 10 month off for discovering Australia. After my return, I joined arvato mobile again as Director B2B. I was in charge of the worldwide non-operator business, e.g. record labels, hardware manufacturer etc.

In 1997, at the age of 18, I started my first own business. I sold mobile phones with and without contracts as well as mobile accessories. It was the early stage of mobile business when everyone slowly started to buy his/her first mobile phone.

As a participant of both start-up weekends (edelbild.de & indawo.de) in Hamburg it is still worth it to mention although none of them finally was continued and pushed to market.