Christoph Schmidt, CEO and Founder

Christoph Schmidt, founder and managing director of messageconcept GmbH, has a strong background in consulting, software development, marketing and product management.

He has held various positions within the IT industry over the past two decades. Before founding messageconcept, Christoph worked as a Director for more than three years, responsible for Microsoft focused consulting and development services, at a top five systems integrator in Germany. He served for ten years as a senior consultant, trainer and team manager with a focus on Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange Server at two leading consulting companies. Before that Christoph worked for seven years as a software developer for business applications at an ISV and at one of the largest German banking institutions.

Christoph studied Business Information Technology at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Karlsruhe and holds several professional certifications. His work was honored with two awards by Microsoft Germany. He served as a member of the Microsoft Partner Quality Board and the Microsoft Business Sales Circle and joined the Microsoft Unified Communications InnerCircle ten years ago.

In his free time Christoph is addicted to reading thrillers and historic novels, he enjoys cycling and manages an upcoming German metal band.