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Dirk Ahlborn is a serial entrepreneur and public speaker on technology and innovation. He is Founder and Chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Founder and CEO of JumpStarter Inc.
Dirk Ahlborn is the founder and CEO of JumpStarter Inc. which operates www.JumpStartFund.com, a web portal that believes in creating smarter and more successful companies by applying crowdsourcing from conception of an idea all the way through funding. Ahlborn is also Chairman and Founder of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. which is JumpStartFund's well known undertaking to make the Hyperloop become reality, by using a crowd collaboration concept.
Dirk Ahlborn is a serial entrepreneur with experience in almost every element of business: management, product design and development and manufacturing, production facility design and set up, production cost control, marketing, product distribution, customer service and sales.
Before co-founding Jumpstarter, Dirk Ahlborn was at the Girvan Institute of Technology, an incubator-accelerator for early-stage high-tech companies. At Girvan, beginning in 2009, he was instrumental in the development of several startup companies, notably Advanced Turbine Designs, Inc., a developer of natural-gas fueled gas turbine generators for combined heat and power. In the course of his multifaceted activities at Girvan, he also managed mobile and web application developments as well as search engine optimization and online marketing.
Dirk Ahlborn had an early career as a broker and investment specialist at one of Germany's largest banks, Bankgesellshaft Berlin, AG, and founded several startups in Italy focused on alternative energy. He has been profiled in Forbes, The Boston Globe, Wired, and Bloomberg, among others. Ahlborn has participated in conferences on technology and innovation in Europe and the United States, including SXSW, The Economist, Wired Mobility 2015 and many more.
