The Management

Jana Eggers, CEO

Jana joined Spreadshirt in November 2006 to grow the North American corporation and to help manage the global corporation. In August of 2007, Jana was named Spreadshirt's global CEO.

Jana brought her passion for the customer and innovation to Spreadshirt, which has mixed well with the creative and dedicated global team. She's excited to lead Spreadshirt's three business units - direct to customer shopping, shop partner platform, and design competitions - serving different customers that together build a strong proposition for the market. She also likes the opportunity to express herself everyday wearing a Spreadshirt with her own message.

Jana came to Spreadshirt from Intuit where she founded the corporate Innovation Lab and ran the company's fastest growing business unit, QuickBase - an online application platform. Prior to Intuit, Jana held executive and technical positions at American Airline's Sabre, Lycos, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and several start-ups.

Jana's work in innovation and leadership has been recognized with Mass High Tech's Women to Watch award in 2004; Intuit's CEO Excellent Award in 2005; and Hendrix College's Odyssey Award for Professional and Leadership Development in 2007. She's been featured in Business Week and Fortune magazines, and is a frequent invited speaker on technology, business, innovation, and leadership.

• Blog: lifeonashirt
• Twitter: twitter.com/jeggers
• Flickr: flickr.com/photos/ijeggers

 

Matthias Spiess, Founder & CTO

Matthias co-founded Spreadshirt, while running the most successful dot-bomb watch site in Germany. He was the major shop partner and saw a great opportunity to grow a successful business out of this model. Matthias offered to join forces with Lukasz on Spreadshirt, and then, financed the growth during Spreadshirt's first years, while Lukasz attended university.

Matthias' studies in philosophy and electro-technology at the University of Dresden and the University of Technology in Berlin, and his work experience for heavyweights like Siemens, as well as several internet and media related start-ups, prepared him well to balance the team.

Matthias led the platform definition and cleared the way for a new market - selling directly to customers. The ability for individuals to design one-off shirts without the need to set-up a shop, now makes up 40% of the business.