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Frank Aldorf
Bike Industry Expert
GERMANY / USA
Speaker bio:

Frank Aldorf is a leading industry expert, advisor and investor with more than 10 years experience in executive board roles in the cycling and outdoor industry.
He has been working in Chief Brand and Marketing roles at Specialized, Canyon, and Internetstores, the world’s leading digital bike retailer, and part of Signa Sports United.

 

Frank was instrumental in launching the Specialized Turbo e-Bike category. At Canyon, he transformed a tier 2 European D2C bicycle manufacturer into one of today’s leading global brands. Frank helped build the most important new business unit of the company in North America. Most recently, he redesigned Internetstores’ entire retail and product brand portfolio and led it to a successful IPO on the NYSE of the parent company SSU.

 

The passionate and award-winning executive has extensive national and international experience in business development and leading change & digital transformation across all regions and types of organizations.

 

Frank was also co-founder of Y&R Berlin and Hubble Innovations, a business consulting firm serving clients like Reebok, VW and IKEA. Aldorf has several years of marketing agency experience working both in Europe and North America on larger multi-billion dollar clients within the tech, mobility and consumer goods industry.

 

He currently resides near Stuttgart, Germany, with his wife and two sons.

 

 

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Keynote name:
Great brands eat other businesses for lunch
Keynote description:
Electrify your business and create a powerful ebike brand of the next era. Hear my top 5: why building a strong brand is the better business. How to take an existing venture from good to great. I will share my knowledge and what I have learned over the years in building a few of the most successful product, service and retail brands across industries.