Thilo von Selchow

WHEB Ventures

Venture Partner

Thilo von Selchow has been CEO & President of ZMD AG since 1999. He turned the company from a struggling state owned enterprise into a growing global fabless player with Focus on analogue mixed signal semiconductors for sensors and actuators in the field of energy efficiency.

Between 1991 and 1999 he held several Managing Director and Chairman positions in the Heitkamp & Thumann Group. Under his leadership, the Battery Component Group of H&T became world market leader in that specific segement. (€175 mio Revenue). Prior to that he was an Investment Manager in the Matuschka Group’s Private Equity Fund; at that time Europe’s largest MBO fund (€250 mio) focusing on SME investments in Europe.

Thilo holds a degree in Economics from the University of Munich and attended the Harvard Summer School in Boston in 1991. He is a cofounder of “Silicon Saxony e.V.”, Europe’s largest microelectronics cluster and has been the association’s President for six years. He serves as Chairman of the Board at Novaled AG a leading startup company in Dresden in the Field of OLED (organic LED) Technology and products. He is advisor to the Microelectronics Group of the Fraunhofer Association, a leading German Research Institute.