Thomas Hesse

Thomas Hesse is a senior media and digital media executive and entrepreneur. He currently is the CEO of Paddle8 Auctionata, also a Senior Adviser to CVC Capital Partners and Founder of Consonance Investments LLC, an angel/ VC fund. He was previously President of Corporate Development and New Businesses as well as Member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann, and before that Sony Music Entertainment's President of Global Digital Business & US Sales.

Hesse holds a BA and MA from Oxford University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a Doctorate in Corporate Finance from the University of St. Gallen. He studied as a concert pianist at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Paddle8 Auctionata is the world's largest online auction house for art and luxury collectibles that was formed in the summer 2016 by combining the assets of New York-based Paddle8 and Berlin, Germany- based Auctionata. Hesse was appointed as the company's CEO on September 1, 2016 [8].

Since January 2014, Hesse is founder and CEO of the New York-based Consonance Investments LLC for venture investments with a focus on digital video and music startup companies.

Since June 2014 he has been a Senior Adviser to CVC Capital Partners.

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