Our Team

At Marley Spoon our primary ambition is to build the best team and constantly grow.

We offer our team members opportunities for development, growth and learning. We encourage entrepreneurial thinking, autonomy and open communication. Most importantly, we want to create an environment where every Marley Spoon member can thrive, whilst delighting the customers and each other along the way.

Management Team

Fabian Siegel

Fabian Siegel

CEO, Founder, Management Board

 
Fabian Siegel

Fabian Siegel

CEO, Founder, Management Board

Fabian co-founded Marley Spoon in May 2014 and is the current Chief executive officer of the Company.

Fabian has an entrepreneurial background, having co-founded global online restaurant food deliver service, Delivery Hero, in 2010 (listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in June 2017). He also co-founded Germany’s first online auction business (Auktionet in 1996), served as CTO in Europe’s online payments services brands (ClickandBuy in 2000), co-founded a financial services startup (Strateer Inc. in 2008), and served as President & COO of browser technology company (Kikin Inc. in 2009).

Immediately prior to Marley Spoon, Fabian was a Partner at Global Founders Capital, a shareholder of Marley Spoon.

Fabian is responsible for building company culture, hiring talent and investor relations.

Jennifer Bernstein

Jennifer Bernstein

Chief Financial Officer, Management Board

 
Jennifer Bernstein

Jennifer Bernstein

Chief Financial Officer, Management Board

Jennifer joined the Company as CFO Designate in October 2020. Her focus as CFO at Marley Spoon is to deliver business partnership, use financial analysis to drive decision making and build a high-performing finance function, across FP&A, Accounting, Controllership, Financial Reporting and Treasury.

Prior to joining Marley Spoon, Jennifer spent more than 12 years at PepsiCo, the global Fortune 500 FMCG company, where she held a variety of financial and strategy leadership roles in both the United States and Europe. Earlier in her career she founded a marketing finance consultancy and worked in Public Relations.

Rolf Weber

Rolf Weber

COO, CEO Australia, Management Board

 
Rolf Weber

Rolf Weber

COO, CEO Australia, Management Board

As Managing Director and Co-Founder of Marley Spoon Australia, Rolf is responsible for Australian business development, operations and team. He brings extensive experience of scaling e-commerce operations as Co-Founder and Managing Director of Brands Exclusive, and has worked prior to this as Management Consultant with PwC and Sales Manager at Ikea amongst other appointments.

Katalin Fritz

Katalin Fritz

Chief Customer and People Officer

 
Katalin Fritz

Katalin Fritz

Chief Customer and People Officer

Katalin joined Marley Spoon in 2016. As Chief Customer and People Officer, Katalin is accountable to provide stakeholders with actionable insights to improve customer and team experience and retention, helping to navigate change, reimagine the business and realizing value. Katalin is also responsible for frontline customer and people operations and is MD of the global service centre in Lisbon.

Prior to Marley Spoon, Katalin was Head of Customer Service Quality Assurance at Amazon, Head of EMEA Commercial Database and Sales Support at Avis Budget Group and Operations Director at TLC Marketing.

Jonas Schultheiss

Jonas Schultheiss

Chief Marketing and Product Officer

 
Jonas Schultheiss

Jonas Schultheiss

Chief Marketing and Product Officer

As CMO, Jonas is responsible for global acquisition and retention activities at Marley Spoon. Previously he headed International Marketing at Delivery Hero, amongst other positions in food and tech.

Nasreen Abduljaleel

Nasreen Abduljaleel

Chief Technology Officer

 
Nasreen Abduljaleel

Nasreen Abduljaleel

Chief Technology Officer

Nasreen has full ownership of the digital technology agenda for the organisation as we look to progress our ambitious plans for the company, underpinned by strong foundations and a continued commitment to innovation in our technology and digital processes & platforms.

Nasreen was previously Senior Director of Technology at Expedia where she led large global technology teams and piloted various strategic growth initiatives to drive value for both the company and the customer. Prior to joining Expedia, she started her career in Machine Learning research, then worked on e-commerce at scale at Amazon as a software developer and gained startup experience at Apparture Inc.

Michael Hester

Michael Hester

CEO United States

 
Michael Hester

Michael Hester

Chief People Officer

Michael Hester joined Marley Spoon in 2021 as Chief Operating Officer - US, where he successfully drove operational efficiency, improved on the customer promise and in 2022 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the US.

Prior to joining Marley Spoon, Michael’s background and expertise spanned across growth and operational roles including supply chain, procurement, strategy and transformation working in senior leadership roles across BevMo!, The Vitamin Shoppe, Plated and Gopuff as well as Co-Founding his family business which specialised in retail and consumer products. .

Dr. Mathias Hansen

Dr. Mathias Hansen

General Counsel

 
Dr. Mathias Hansen

Dr. Mathias Hansen

General Counsel

Mathias joined Marley Spoon as general counsel in January 2018 and has been appointed to act in a company secretarial role to support the Supervisory Board and Management Board. Prior to Marley Spoon, Mathias was a corporate law attorney with a leading international law firm with US origins and a global footprint. Over the past 10 years Mathias gained in-depth knowledge and experience in national and cross-border M&A transactions.

Supervisory Board

Christian Gisy

Christian Gisy

Deputy Chairman of Marley Spoon Supervisory Board

 
Christian Gisy

Christian Gisy

Deputy Chairman of Marley Spoon Supervisory Board

Christian is an experienced business leader who joined Marley Spoon in August 2022 as Non Executive Director and Chairman of the nomination and remuneration committee.

Previously Christian held several positions as CEO, COO, CFO in digital and media companies such as AUTODOC, Scout24, CinemaxX, etc., with a proven track record in private, public and Private Equity backed organisations. Chrtistian currently serves as NED and Chairman for the AtHome Group in Luxemburg, a leading classifieds business and as deputy Chairman for ADVYCE in Germany, a fast growing strategy consulting business. Christian holds a Master degree as Diplom Volkswirt (Economics) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn.

Alexander Kudlich

Alexander Kudlich

Non-Executive Director

 
Alexander Kudlich

Alexander Kudlich

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Kudlich has almost 20 years of experience in tech investing and business building. His investment focus is around digital consumer and prosumer topics.

Mr. Kudlich is currently a general partner at 468 Capital GmbH & Co. KG, a venture capital firm he co-founded in 2020. 468 Capital GmbH & Co. KG invests in early-stage technology companies. He was also a member of the management board at Rocket Internet SE, a global incubator and investor in internet companies. At Rocket Internet, he oversaw the incubation of large-scale internet technology businesses, resulting in ~10 IPOs and trade sales alone (including Delivery Hero, HelloFresh and home24).

Mr. Kudlich worked in various managerial positions at Axel Springer AG, after having joined them as the assistant of the chairman and CEO in 2005.

Mr. Kudlich holds a Master of Business Administration from the European School of Management and Technology and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University College London. He is a member of the extended board of directors of the Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V., and a member of the Advisory Board of comparable domestic or foreign companies.

Erika Söderberg-Johnsson

Erika Söderberg-Johnsson

Non-Executive Director, Independent

 
Erika Söderberg-Johnsson

Erika Söderberg-Johnsson

Non-Executive Director, Independent

Ms. Söderberg Johnsson has over 30 years of experience in management, strategy, business development, corporate development, and finance. She is a proven leader with a track record of success in delivering profitable growth. She has a deep understanding of the financial markets and is skilled in managing risk.

Ms Söderberg Johnsson is currently a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee at Camurus AB and Mabtech Holding AB, member of the board of directors and member of the audit committee at Saab AB and a senior adviser at Kinnevik AB. Prior to her position as senior adviser at Kinnevik AB she worked as the CFO at Kinnevik AB, Biotage AB, Affibody AB, Global Genomics AB and Karo Bio AB.

She was a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee at Qliro Group AB, Sectra AB and MedCap AB.

Ms. Söderberg Johnsson holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics