ABOUT US

WE FIND, RECRUIT, ASSEMBLE, AND MANAGE YOUR HIGH-QUALITY IT-DEVELOPMENT TEAM.

COMPANY

We enable our customers to achieve rapid upscale of high-class development with little financial risk and high flexibility. Hence their products can be delivered on time and quality. Working successfully with our customers we perfectly understand their challenges. We are listening. We speak the same language. We tell it like it is. With empathy and service-mentality we integrate cultural differences.

Founded in 2016 in Munich Germany

Global management team ( Germany, Portugal, Bulgaria)

Access to thousands of IT experts in the nearshorefriends group

Represented across 8 time zones for maximum coverage.

Development centers around the globe including Bulgaria, Portugal, Tunisia, Ukraine and LATAM.

Global Agile consulting with bases in Germany, Ukraine and Portugal

COMPANY

We are a German-US owned, international organization that offers IT Nearshoring and Offshoring services to our global Client base. We value people above all, and even though we have a global mindset and presence (USA, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Portugal, and Ukraine) we strive to maintain a family-like atmosphere while providing the high level of service that our clients have come to expect. We are in the people business, and our people just happen to be amazing engineers, consultants and IT professionals.

ANDREAS GANSWINDT

Founder and CEO

JOHANNES KRÜGER

Chief Operating Officer

ALPHONSINE WILLIAMS

Chief Revenue Officer

Facts

WHO ARE WE

We are a German, US owned- managed service provider that specializes in various IT nearshoring and offshoring services.

WHAT WE DO

We find, recruit, assemble, and manage your high-quality development team.

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS

We want to help you achieve your business goals by giving you access to talent that may be difficult to find in your local job market

HOW WE GET THE JOB DONE

We listen to you in order to understand your goals and challenges. Together we build a complete software team and offer solutions, by having a people first, team spirit, service mentality

WHAT ARE OUR VALUES

The most important: transparency, respect, tolerance, honesty and fairness in dealing with each other.

HOW DOES THIS MANIFEST ITSELF IN DAILY ACTIONS

Try it and measure us by our standards.

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

With the registration of the brand “nearshorefriends” a new chapter begins for our company. This is also connected with the expansion of the organization with a top-class advisory board, which will from now on support our motto “Value driven nearshore quality”. We are particularly pleased that Eva Wittka, Iryna Zhovtobryukh, Fabian Wittleben, and Dieter Reichert will be supporting in the future. The tech and thus also the nearshore industry is still characterized by men. That is why it is our honor to have internationally successful women on board with Eva and Iryna.

Andreas Ganswindt

Founder

IRYNA ZHOVTOBRYUKH

Tech - Manager with many years of nearshore experience

Iryna Zhovtobryukh has been building up Tech - Teams for over 15 years. Born in Ukraine, she graduated from the Cherkassy State Technical University with

a degree in Computer Science and started her career as a software developer. Further stages of her career have included positions in international companies as Agile Delivery Manager, Product Owner and Scrum Master. Iryna has been living in Germany since 2014 and is currently CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of a successful tech company in the Fintech sector. Iryna speaks four language

DIETER REICHERT

Serial Entrepreneur

As CEO of censhare AG, Dieter developed integrated marketing and communication technology. Before Dieter founded censhare AG together with partners, he managed VISION GmbH as

a system integrator for publishing houses. Besides technology companies he founded the Mudra-Drogenhilfe e.V., the culturelife Event GmbH and worked in indigenous projects worldwide. Since 2019, the entrepreneur has concentrated on a few investments and accompanies them as a coach, mentor and idea provider. In the course of his career Dieter has repeatedly gained experience in the offshore and nearshore environment.

FABIAN WITTLEBEN

Company builder with nearshore experience

Fabian Wittleben studied business administration at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck and subsequently earned an MBA in Hong Kong with a.....

focus on Finance & Economics. Before he was responsible for Bonial Services as Managing Director, he spent a total of 4 years in Colombia, where he developed off-/online business models and also worked as a mentor at the Founders Institute. Fabian has been a partner at CG Partners since March 2019 and invests there as an active early-stage investor in innovative digital business models. With more than 30 active startup investments and in the course of his career he has repeatedly initiated nearshore models.

EVA WITTKA

Transformation and scale-up expert

Eva completed her business degree in Würzburg, Germany, which she later complemented with an executive degree in corporate innovation at Stanford.

Her professional career led her into the IT and media industry, where she successfully implemented strategic projects relating to digital transformation for ProSiebenSat1, Bertelsmann and SAP, among others. As a trained Innovation & Strategy Coach, her focus over the last ten years has been on leadership roles in which new business areas and models as well as complex growth cases are to be realised. Eva is currently COO of the Jochen Schweizer mydays Group and is responsible for the scaling of the newly integrated digital booking platform and for operational excellence in the company.

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