Manager Magazine ranks Janna Ensthaler among the 100 most influential women in German business. The 38-year-old, herself a serial entrepreneur and mother of three children, was also seen as an investor in the 13th season of the start-up show “The Lions’ Den”.
Many successes: Janna Ensthaler’s career
Janna Ensthaler has already achieved several milestones in her career. After an outstanding high school diploma with a grade of 1.0, she completed a bachelor’s degree in economics at the renowned English University of Oxford. This was followed by studying international relations at the London School of Economics, also in England. This was followed by her first professional experience as a management consultant at the well-known consulting firm Bain & Company in London.
Her professional portfolio is filled with a variety of companies that she has either invested in or founded herself. In an article on bunte.de, Janna Ensthaler’s professional career is explained as follows. In 2011, she founded the cosmetics company Glossybox, a company specializing in beauty box subscriptions. In addition to Germany, the company was able to gain a foothold in several other European countries, as well as in the USA and China, before it was bought by the British “The Hut Group”. Her next founding was Kaiserwetter, a catering company in Hamburg, which she also supported through to its sale.
Since 2021, Janna Ensthaler has also been a founding partner of the Green Generation Fund. A fund that, according to information from the European Union on its website, is one of the largest in its field in Europe and is run exclusively by women. There it invests mainly in innovative companies with ideas for climate-friendly energy production.
Little is known about the family
Ensthaler’s father is the former Stern and WDR editor-in-chief Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, according to the Hamburger Abendblatt in an article about Janna Ensthaler. After working as press spokesman and board member, in 2001 he also became chairman of the board of the “Bertelsmann Music Group” based in New York, today better known as “Sony Music Entertainment”.
In addition to her entrepreneurial activities and her impressive academic career, the multiple founder is also a multiple mother.
Editorial team finanzen.net