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Daniel Kraft
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Mr. Daniel Kraft joins ViewPoint Capital Partners as a Venture Partner.
Most recently, Mr. Kraft drove key initiatives as SVP of Corporate Strategy with Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX).
In this role, Mr. Kraft was instrumental in helping the company to become the market leader in Enterprise Content Management growing into one of the Top 20 Global Software Companies.
Drawing from a decade of experience running and advising growing and innovative companies, Mr. Kraft will be expanding the advisory team of Viewpoint Capital Partners and bring further expertise and deep knowledge of the Enterprise Application Software field to the fund and its portfolio companies.
Prior to Open Text, Mr. Kraft held the position as President and CEO of RedDot Solutions establishing the company as market leader in Web Content Management.
Under his leadership, RedDot experienced substantial revenue & margin growth, two successful acquisitions and was ultimately integrated into the Open Text Group.
Mr. Kraft has a strong background in corporate finance holding several positions in corporate finance including Associate Director of the Global Technology Group of Commerzbank Securities originating and executing transactions in Mergers & Acquisitions, Equity Capital Markets and Private Equity throughout Europe and North America.
Mr. Kraft holds a degree of Business Engineering from the University of Applied Science Giessen/Friedberg.
Former positions of Daniel Kraft
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ViewPoint Capital Partners GmbH
![]() ViewPoint Capital Partners GmbH Investment ManagersFinance ViewPoint Capital Partners GmbH (ViewPoint) is an independent German private equity firm which was founded by Christian Janson-Euterneck and Urs Ehrismann in 2000. ViewPoint specializes exclusively in software technology companies, providing capital for growth and international expansion, shareholder liquidity, buy-outs and acquisitions. Located in Frankfurt, the firm also has an office in Zurich, Switzerland. ViewPoint's expertise in software technology investments, corporate development, strategic mergers and acquisitions and consulting allows them to provide their investee companies with advice through all types of economic cycles, insight into market trends, and access to their network of industry contacts throughout Europe and the US. The firm's private equity funds are backed by European banking corporations, international fund-of-funds, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies and selected private individuals. | Private Equity Investor | 31/12/2009 |
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ViewPoint Capital Partners GmbH
![]() ViewPoint Capital Partners GmbH Investment ManagersFinance ViewPoint Capital Partners GmbH (ViewPoint) is an independent German private equity firm which was founded by Christian Janson-Euterneck and Urs Ehrismann in 2000. ViewPoint specializes exclusively in software technology companies, providing capital for growth and international expansion, shareholder liquidity, buy-outs and acquisitions. Located in Frankfurt, the firm also has an office in Zurich, Switzerland. ViewPoint's expertise in software technology investments, corporate development, strategic mergers and acquisitions and consulting allows them to provide their investee companies with advice through all types of economic cycles, insight into market trends, and access to their network of industry contacts throughout Europe and the US. The firm's private equity funds are backed by European banking corporations, international fund-of-funds, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies and selected private individuals. | Finance |
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